BINGO!!!!It was an honest question, wasn't it?
When people find out what Affirmative Action really is, it sounds like the honorable thing to do.
MYTH: Affirmative Action GIVES jobs to people who don't deserve them, provides openings for unqualified candidates to fudge scores, and knocks deserving qualified people out of the running, because at its heart, Affirmative Action is a form of reverse discrimination.
FACT: Affirmative Action merely PLACES candidates at an appropriate place in line as if there were no ethnic or racial criteria being observed. It is a de facto anonymizer.
Affirmative Action puts candidates face to face with opportunities which have been historically unavailable to them due to historic discrimination factors.
Once an Affirmative Action candidate gets that opportunity, they have to earn it like anyone else, and by that I mean, if they get a job, or get placement in higher education, and they don't perform, the school or employer is under NO OBLIGATION, legal or otherwise, TO KEEP that candidate or employee.
The free market takes over once an Affirmative Action candidate is placed.
It is a corrective measure only.