Running head: Abolish Affirmative Action Affirmative Action Should Be Abolished Abstract The term affirmative action encompasses a range of measures aimed at compensating for past discrimination by increasing the chances that minorities or women will be chosen for jobs, promotions, admissions, or contracts. The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination on the bases of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. That law also states it should not be interpreted to require any employer to …showed first 75 words of 2422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2422 total…Once we learn to share values are nation will be the better for it. Affirmative action is limiting the size a company can grow, hurting the people it was supposed to help, and is doing the vary thing it was suppose to end, discrimination. Affirmative action did not work in the 1960s and it is not working in the 1990s. Once affirmative action is abolished, and only then, will all groups of people be equal.