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Title: A Christian Proposal To Affirmative Action
Words: 1280
Drew Ashby
3-15-01
Dr. Perry
English 1120
A CHRISTIAN PROPOSAL TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
When, in 1961, President of John F. Kennedy first used the term "affirmative action" to authorize preferential hiring of minorities under Executive Order No. 10925, he and his advisors could hardly have imagined how far-reaching and divisive their decree would come. Surely they never considered how hostile the debate over "quotas" and "racial set-asides" would be. But since that first step was taken, affirmative action initiatives in this country have turned the whole concept of "equality under the law" upside down.
The reasoning behind Kennedy's order may have been revolutionary, but the design was quite simple. The edict specified that federal contractors should take ...
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