Affirmative Action

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 …

…he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another (Galatians 6:3-4). Such a perspective should tell us we are each responsible for our own behavior; but we also know we must work to build communities that guarantee justice and equal treatment for all citizens, regardless of race, creed, or national origin. Cooperation, not coercion, is the answer.