More affirmative action

A very hot topic in today's society is affirmative action. Many people, mostly white men, disagree with affirmative action for perfectly acceptable reasons. Why should a person get a job over another just because of the color of their skin? Or why should a woman get a job over a man just because she doesn't have a penis? I don't feel that this is what affirmative action is and why it was created. In the past decades, many minorities and women were not hired for positions solely because of their race or gender. This is quite obvious when looking back at what races and genders dominated what jobs and occupations. However, i do not think that affirmative action wanted to create a reverse discrimination policy in our time. This would prove to be counterproductive. I feel the creators of this plan wanted employers to stop hiring or not hiring on a gender or race basis. They wanted every person to get a fair opportunity to get a job. However, many businesses took this plan too far. They simply started hiring more women and people of different races just to make their company more diverse. This is why so many people are complaining when someone else gets the job over them who is of a different race or gender. They automatically assume that it was just because they were a girl or black man. This whole concept is ridiculous and if companies and businesses are still doing this, there need to be laws restricting it. Overall, i guess i take a feminist perspective in that if all men and women are created equal, then they should each have an equal chance at every opportunity.