Affirmative Action Despite its intentions to create a country in which every person, regardlless of his or her race, sex, or origin, has an equal oppurtunity to employment and education, the benefits of affirmative action are quicklly coming to an end. Supporters of affirmative action claim that it allows those individuals who have been discriminated against in the past to get the jobs they want and get the education they want, but what affirmative action does is discriminate against those who deserve these jobs. Sure, there are plenty of people in minority groups that are more highly qualified for jobs than people in majority groups and by all means they deserve these jobs, but th