Part 1 of Essay
was started to eliminate discrimination in the workplace by hiring workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. It began in 1961 by president Kennedy when he issued executive order number 10925 to make federal contractors take (Altschiller, p.5). The goal of affirmative action is to allow "the victims of discriminatory conduct ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... is just more confusion. This is because there is a lot of gray in the law concerning this topic. Sometimes courts allow someone to choose the minority if they are less qualified, while in other cases they don't allow it. For example in a supreme court decision, it was allowed for a Michigan school district to layoff non- minority teachers in order to hire minority teachers with less experience(Altschiller, p13). If a similar case were to appear again the result would most likely be different. In no case shou ....