Support for Affirmative Action Programs

Affirmative-Action Programs
- Initiatives aimed at encouraging diversity in classrooms and workplaces, and increasing opportunities for minorities and women.
People against affirmative-action programs say:
It encourages discrimination against whites and men (so-called reverse discrimination).
It's no longer necessary for diversity in the classroom and workplace.
It takes opportunities away from more qualified applicants.
Support for Affirmative Action Programs
In a 1965 commencement speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., President Lyndon Johnson discussed the importance of a…