A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decis
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a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decis
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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
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Other Usage ExamplesWell, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.