Affirmative Action: The Black Civil Rights Movement
The use of affirmative action, in the United States, is more detrimental and destructive to the lives of Black people than helpful and advantageous. As prescribed by the Black civil rights movement, affirmative action is defined as programs which are created to destroy racial barriers, enforce fair socioeconomic opportunities amongst the masses, and induce a communal sense of “positive” discrimination in favor of the states’ minorities (Affirmative Action). Additionally, these programs are most notably used in relations to employment and education and executed lawfully through the use of the United States’ Supreme Court. After the conclusion of American slavery and the Jim Crow Era, affirmative action was created, through President Kennedy’s