A: "Affirmative Action"

I believe people should understand what affirmative action is before they can debate on whether or not affirmative action is just or non just. Affirmative action is the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. I believe that affirmative action is a just cause and is important. In races that have been wronged in this country such as the African Americans, Native Americans, and other nationalities and ethnic groups that have been discriminated against; I believe they should have the affirmative action act to somewhat compensate for past events.

The main issue of Affirmative Action is reverse discrimination; people are being discriminated because they are not in the ethnic groups that are effected by the Affirmative Action law. This however is not true, the Affirmative Action act says that just because you fit into the category of getting help, you still have to meet other qualifications. For example if you are applying for a school at some university, they aren't just going to take an unqualified ethnic person in front of another applicant. They are going to take the most qualified person that is applying; just because you are from a certain race doesn't enable you to push past people, only if you are fully qualified to meet the demands of the task are you pushed ahead.

Reference: http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html