SCOTUS Prepares To Gut Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court is expected to overturn affirmative action soon. Here's why that is a terrible idea?

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In what very well may be the final case in this country for a long time about race-conscious College admissions. Just a brief history of affirmative action in this country. Really in the modern era you know because you could argue 14th Amendment affirmative action. Reconstruction was very much about affirmative action. The introduction of public schools. The introduction of the 14th Amendment. A whole host of ideas that The Radical Republicans wanted in the 1870s let's say 18 late 1860s was a function of recognizing that you can't simply free millions of slaves and just say like okay. Figure it out. All good. Yeah, and the next wave came in the wake of the Civil Rights act in 1965. Where not only did the legacy of slavery remain. But this country had ongoing racial discrimination. And whether it was in the context of housing. Which is the number one developer of intergenerational wealth. Whether it was in the context of I don't know so security and What professions you know what jobs are going to be considered. Whether jobs have Labor protection labor protections. Whether it was political power after you know essentially the programs of during Reconstruction. The rolling back of the franchise for black people. Such that you had to have a Voting Rights Act in 1965. I mean all of these things are quarters in higher education. Quotas in jobs. I mean that would be geared towards suppressing specifically black people and other minorities at the time. And so in the modern era. There was an awareness that we as a society need to encourage and to make sure. Because we don't have the systems built because over 200 and some odd years 300 years all of our systems to find people and make people Avail you know like give people opportunity were warped towards white people in this country. And the Merit structures that we had were also developed with the idea that we were going to reward white people.