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It gave people at the time to achieve a modicum of success in fields that at the time they could not grow in. It helped those that were put down by by discrimination to be made more.
Here is an interesting example. I was applying for University and took the entrance test. This goes back to 1970. My entrance test was in the top 3. The university was giving full pay scholarships to the top five. I was in. Full pay. The Dean called me for a meeting where he told me that I was just a woman and he was moving me down to position 6 because a man would better use the scholarship. I was just a woman he said and I would probably be home married to one of these guys having babies.
That was affirmative action of another kind. It was me getting screwed by the system because I lacked a penis. Don't tell me about the poor males that may have felt some pain. They were never told they were less because they didn't have a vagina.
This happened to blacks in favor of white males. It happened to women in favor of men. Affirmative Action promotes equality.
That is a horrendous story, one I truly hope we have moved past in this country and that I think, at least in the majority of people I hope, we have moved past.
That said...
While Affirmative Action at one point may've been needed, how can you justify now the exact same situation potentially happening with someone going
"I'm sorry you're not black, hispanic, or asian and you're male and you're christian so therefore despite meeting all the requirements for this scholarship, we're going to push you back".
What I don't get with this thing is how someone can go through such a horrible and frankly completely unfair and WRONG of a situation.......and then 30 years later essentially be promoting something that now does the same thing but just changes the victem. Is that really "fixing" anything, or is it just changing it?