Affirmative Action: An Interpretation through the Application of Justice Theories

INTRODUCTION President John F. Kennedy submitted a positive action plan to the United States in the early 1960s to revise the history of racial discrimination throughout the country (Massey, 2004). As a world leader, the United States has a significant influence on this issue and has filed a number of lawsuits in the court in recent decades. The original purpose of the positive action plan was to force government agencies to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Equal Rights Act (Massey, 2004).

Interpretation and execution of positive behavior has been questioned since the 1960s. The central issue of discussion is the definition of discriminatory employment practices. As the interpretation of positive behavior changes, employment practices that deliberately are not discriminatory but give "affected" to affected groups are considered violations of positive behavioral rules. Another central issue of the discussion is whether members of the affected group can receive preferential treatment, and if so, they can receive preferential treatment. This problem is sometimes referred to as discussion about quotas. The aggressive action plan was hit hard between the Reagan administration and the Bush administration, but the principle of positive action was reaffirmed by the civil rights law of 1991. However, in 1997, California's proposal 209 prohibited positive actions in the state.

Positive behaviors are not very important to many people. But many people oppose the idea of ​​accepting preferential treatment through positive actions and do not recognize the many different aspects of positive behavior and the importance of it in most decisions of most admission institutions . Many people do not understand that positive behaviors are everywhere.

Today, the debate surrounding positive behaviors is rampant. Given its ambiguous and wide-ranging nature, many people take anti-affirmative actions. Some believe that it is a way to discriminate and obstruct true equality and justice itself. It is not wide enough and some say that action plans are too general to truly oppose discrimination based on race, sex, status, origin and sexual orientation. In July 2018, the trump regime announced to oppose the Obama government's policy, universities and universities have asked to use race as a factor to expand campus diversity. According to the New York Times, the Education and Justice Department jointly announced that they revoked seven policy guidelines related to the aggressive action by the Obama administration.