Affirmative Action Today Affirmative Action programs promote equal representation of minority groups in the American workplace and public schools. It seeks to remedy the effects of discrimination of specific groups through the force of laws and regulations. In practice, affirmative action can be a passive effort or an aggressive approach to correct historic patterns of racial discrimination. Affirmative Action programs are designed to give opportunities through programs like employee training and set-aside programs that make …showed first 75 words of 2774 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2774 total…and women to attend institutions of higher education and obtain better jobs but has failed to reach the goal of alleviating racial discrimination. But that is not to say that America is not headed in the right direction. Justice Harry Blackmun said it best: “In order to get beyond racism we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat someone equally, we must first treat them differently.”