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Was I Entitled or Should I Apologize? Affirmative Action Going Forward

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Allen, Anita L.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	As a U.S. civil rights policy, affirmative action commonly denotes race-conscious and result-oriented efforts by private and public officials to correct the unequal distribution of economic opportunity and education attributed to slavery, segregation, poverty and racism. Opponents argue that affirmative action (1) violates ideals of color-blind public policies, offending moral principles of fairness and constitutional principles of equality and due process; (2) has proven to be socially and politically divisive; (3) has not made things better; (4) mainly benefits middle-class, wealthy and foreign-born blacks; (4) stigmatizes its beneficiaries; and (5) compromises the self-esteem and self-respect of beneficiaries who know that they have been awarded preferential treatment. By way of a thought experiment, imagine that after decades of public policy and experimentation, the United States public finally came to agree: affirmative action is morally and legally wrong. Employing such a thought experiment, this essay by a beneficiary of affirmative action—written in response to James Sterba’s Affirmative Action for the Future (2009)—examines duties of moral repair and the possibility that the past beneficiaries of affirmative action owe apologies, compensation or some other highly personal form of corrective accountability. Beneficiaries of affirmative action have experienced woundedness and moral insecurity. Indeed, the practice of affirmative action comes with a psychology, a set of psychological benefits and burdens whose moral logic those of us who believe in our own fallibility—as much as we believe in the justice of what we have received and conferred on others—should address.
Starting Page	253
Ending Page	263
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13824554
Journal	The Journal of Ethics
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728609
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-04-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Affirmative action African American Apology Corrective justice Discrimination Race Reparation Ethics Political Philosophy Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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