Recently in my Government class we have started an internship of sorts with CAIR-Oklahoma. We will be basically doing research about issues CAIR is working on, which I am super excited about. The first issue we'll be working on is Affirmative Action, which has become a hot topic recently here in Oklahoma. More on that later. So I would like to start off with what Affirmative Action is, exactly. After reading about twenty similar definitions of Affirmative Action throughout the internet, I finally settled on Wikipedia's version. It says
"Affirmative Action refers to policies that take factors such as race, color, gender, or national origin in consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination."
These "underrepresented groups" are usually minorities. Affirmative Action is usually implemented in things like acceptance to a university or applying for a job.
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