Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges, says schools can't consider race in admission
Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges, says schools can't consider race in admission
- The Supreme Court ruled that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a would-be student’s race, are unconstitutional.
- The court’s majority opinion said that both Harvard’s and UNC’s affirmative action programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”
Probably worth pointing out: The vast majority of people are likely to agree with this, including most Black people.
Is this news, considering its from February 25, 2019?Lemmy app bugged and presented me with a completely different article
I can't say I'm bothered by that, to be honest. It cuts both ways (ie, colleges can't reject someone for their race, either). Despite the fact that employment law in the US has long been governed by this distinction, large companies are still able to set and meet diversity targets.
Schools should focus on income-based discrimination; rich people and their kids will get a good education regardless of their race, and low income folks will have a harder time, regardless of their race.
Providing more opportunities to low income candidates not only will be more effective at creating equity, it'll also tend to help black and Latino students to a greater extent than white students ... Because of the way the income distribution works in this country.