Treyvonna Richardson Feb 25 2013 College writing 5th Outline Affirmative Action Introduction: Affirmative action started out

as a good program or system that helped minorities gets into school and jobs but now affirmative action is just another form of racism. Supporting details: Affirmative action history a) The affirmative action program began during WWII when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the executive order barring discrimination in the federal government and by war industries President Roosevelt had great hopes for Affirmative action and it helped. The AA order outlawed discrimination against black contractors it was the first fair employment committee. b) Affirmative action gained muscle in the 1960s with the raise of the civil rights movement. Explicitly, it has been about race and, to a lesser degree, gender- a policy to make up for centuries of oppression and to ensure diversity c) President john f Kennedy on march 6 1961 established the committee on equal employment opportunity, mandating that projects given federal funds take as to keep racial bias out of employment and hiring process Supporting Detail: Affirmative action in schools

a) Affirmative action also helped with the minorities when they wanted to go to college. A number of states have boosted minority enrollment with race neutral policies including more aggressive and holistic review of individual application b) In the early 1990s, elite campuses began to pull back from their aggressive affirmative-action policies. And in 1996, California voters passed the California Civil Rights Initiative, also known as Proposition 209. After that, race could no longer be a factor in government hiring or public-university admissions. The number of black students at both Berkeley and U.C.L.A. plummeted, and at U.C.L.A. the declines continued throughout the next decade.

Supporting detail: Taking back what is ours A) Affirmative action is a good way for minority to flourish in a community that has always favor whites and that has given them so many privileges when they did not deserve it. B) Affirmative action is a good way for United States to repent for the hundreds of years of oppression to all minorities not just blacks. C) Sometimes affirmative action maybe the only way people who are not minorities will take minorities seriously Counterargument: Do they deserve our spot? a) Most white people feel like it reverse racism it is often not possible to tell whether a given student genuinely deserved

admission to Stanford or whether he is there by virtue of fitting into some sort of diversity matrix b) Instead of a remedy for disadvantage, many supporters now claim that preferences promote "diversity." This same push for "diversity" also has led Stanford to create racially segregated dormitories, racially segregated freshman orientation programs, racially segregated graduation ceremonies and curricular requirements in race theory and gender studies.

Conclusion : I agree with affirmative action because it benefits the minorities. It helps them get jobs and with getting acctped in colleges. Some might argue that its wrong and is racist toward majority but tuff for them they should realize even a poor white man has a better chance of getting into a good college then a middle class black man with better grades.