Affirmative Action On March 6, 1961 President John F. Kennedy started Affirmative Action by an order of anti-discrimination. This was created to ensure that employees were treated the same regardless of their race, creed, color or national origin during their employment. Later on, in the 1970's the order was revised to include discrimination because of gender or sexual orientation. Today, Affirmative Action is a topic of debate in our society. It was created for us to have …showed first 75 words of 1348 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1348 total…it works to create more problems either. When Affirmative Action was created it was so we could have a fair future, without discrimination. At that time what the future was, is what today has turned into. Even though there has been many improvements in what discrimination is and how we should deal with it, there is still a lot to get done and I don’t think it is going to change without Affirmative Action.