This allows skilled minorities to enter the workplace. Since race is ignored, no one can discriminate on the basis of race. This process still works today. We can see a dramatic increase in the percentage of the workforce occupied by ethnic minorities. And by adding minorities to a predominately white workforce, the government is supporting diversity, despite the protest of the use of quotas.
Many groups apply quotas to affirmative action as a form of self-regulation.
Quotas are set up so that a certain percentage of a workforce must be made up of minorities. These quotas are a form of discrimination in which ethnic minorities are given a higher place than the ethnic majority. Quotas, however, are not a primary part of affirmative action. They are manufactured by organizations in order to insure that there are enough ethnic minorities in the workforce. Even though quotas are used today, they are not a primary part of affirmative action.