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Affirmative Action is the act of setting aside spots for minorities, or women to give the disadvantaged equal opportunities. One well known affirmative action case was Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978).

It is a serious federal offense for any employer subject to EEO law to "set aside" jobs based on race. Congress prohibited that in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Congress never enacted an Affirmative Action statute. AA is part of contracting regulations, and can NEVER trump or violate a statute.

AA - if an employer volunteers to participate - requires three things:

a written pledge not to violate the sex-blind, color blind EEO laws during the contract,

an analysis of whether each of the employer's job families are significantly different in race or sex stats from the general workforce in which that employer recruits for that job family

IF any job family is significantly different from what would be expected from race-blind, sex-blind recruiting, the employer proposes a plan for reducing the disparity without violating Title VII.

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the government created affirmative action programs to help African American in order to have civil rights, to help African American to survive

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