ale workers to make room for minority employees (Williams, 1997). Now what kind of equal opportunity is this? Granted, the percent of mangers would fall to incoming minorities, but to fire someone because of his or her skin color? Is this not the act were trying to ban?Besides the charges of reverse discrimination, it has come to a point that anti-discrimination legislation has become so broad and powerful that people are taking advantage of the programs. In Buffalo, NY ten police officers were investigated for attempting to pose as Hispanics to qualify for minority hiring quotas (Michel, 1998). One man who was one-eighth Hispanic, was granted minority status. This allowed him to move ahead of 200 white applicants. Is this not discrimination? There needs to be some kind of qualifications to qualify for minority status, and it doesnt mean being one-eighth (Hispanic), having a surname, or being able to speak Spanish. To understand the scope of people trying to take advantage of these laws, the EEOC received 91,189 complaints in1994 of alleged victims of discrimination. Out of the 91,189, they were left with approximately 4% of the original number after dismissing complaints that did not have substantial evidence of discrimination (Burns, 1996, p. 3). With Americas attitude that we must [aim] not solely at ending discrimination but remedying the effects of past discrimination, we will always have the problem of discrimination and endless numbers of people crying discrimination.We must never judge anyone on the color of there skin no matter how noble the cause. Anything otherwise is discrimination. For example, in a Recent letter sent out by the Assistant Director of Personnel, Judy Krok, from Greenwich, Connecticut Public School System, to all the Deans of the Schools of Education, Ms. Krok specifically asks for minority job applicants for positions as teachers or teacher internships (Krok, 1998). I along with Dr. Carolyn Hollman, who re...
