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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."[/quote]

The 14th Amendment was not enforced by the Supreme Court for 90 years, and now it is being interpreted for the opposite purpose as its intent. It was meant to remedy the legacy of discrimination, but now it has been interpreted as protection for maintaining the discriminatory effect of that legacy. [/quote]

Not even close.  It is clear.  Can’t pick or decide stuff on race.  Any race.  There is no other way to view it.

We will not get to a good place as a country if we make any decision based on race. [/quote]

Only if you ignore reality and history and pretend that opportunities and resources for everyone have been equivalent up to the point of college application. Test scores alone do not measure merit. They measure the extent of years of preparation for the tests. [/quote]

Yes and colleges can still look at socioeconomic factors and consider how the race has affected the applicant personally in their essays.  What it has outlawed is preference based solely on the color of someone's skin. I have not seen one good support for why such a travesty and blatantly unconstitutional and unamerican practice should continue. [/quote]

But that is what they were doing already. They weren’t using a racial formula. They were making individual decisions on individual applicants and factoring individual circumstances. The case and decision were based on racial formulas that didn’t exist. [/quote]

Yeah no.  Go actually read what Harvard was doing.  They were not looking at Asians as individuals. [/quote]
You know Harvard isn't normal, right? [/quote]

You know Harvard is the subject of this case right? [/quote]

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