Affirmative Action Is Affirmative Action a good thing or a bad thing in America? Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. But these days it seems to incite rather than ease the nation's internal divisions. An increasingly assertive opposition movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won and that favoring members of one group over …showed first 75 words of 1154 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1154 total…best man for the job should get the job regardless of race/sex. The key now is you are never going to know if they are taking the best people for the jobs and that is just part of the world it is never going to be fair or justified at least in are life time. At this point in our nation's history, does affirmative action make things better or worse? The debate rages on.