American Government Period 7 How Affirmative Action Effects Us All The roots of affirmative action can be traced back to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act where legislation redefined public and private behavior. The act states that to discriminate in private is legal, but anything regarding business or public discrimination is illegal (Microsoft Encarta Online). There are two instances when opposing affirmative action might seem the wrong thing to do. Even these two cases don’…showed first 75 words of 1741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1741 total…education that spans across all levels of income. Affirmative action is definitely not the answer for equality in this day in time. Affirmative action has balanced for thirty years on a moral threat. It is now time to apply new moral threats, not towards the employers and colleges but towards the government. For it is the government that needs to change its polices. The government needs to take action towards the real problems of equality.