Supreme Court decisions on Affirmative Action in Higher Education set the country on a path to even greater INEQUALITY

With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘color-blindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.

- Marc H. Morial

And having so detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America’s real-world problems.” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina

Affirmative action in college admissions has never given applicants of color an advantage over white applicants. It merely diminished, however slightly, the vast advantage white applicants have had over applicants of color.

In stripping away a mild remedy to racial disparities in higher education, the Supreme Court has condoned and entrenched this vast advantage and set the country on a path to even greater inequality.

Diminishing this advantage has never been the primary goal of affirmative action policies. They were not intended to help students of color gain admission to elite schools. They were intended to create diverse campus environments that benefited every student.