Why we need affirmative action

I. Why do we need affirmative action? Unfortunatly, this country still very much needs affirmative action and the arguments used to attack affirmative action, both overt and covert, are dead wrong. Several arguments have been used against affirmative action which I will try to list here. One argument is that it is no longer needed, women and minorities have plenty of jobs. Just a quick look at the numbers proves this wrong. More importantly, though, …

…all this society needs to be healthy is to end the discriminatory policies of affirmative action. What will happen is that people will always find scapegoats to blame and those who profit from the status quo will almost always resist changes that may endanger those profits. Affirmative action may not be perfect, but pretending that it is the cause of inequality rather then a part of the cure only does a disservice to this country.