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[quote=Anonymous]A Landmark for Racial Equality at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court had one of its finest hours on Thursday as it reaffirmed, in logical but forceful fashion, the bedrock American principle of equality under the law. In barring the use of race in college admissions, a six-Justice majority took a giant step back from the racial Balkanization that risks becoming set in institutional stone.

President Biden denounced the decision, perhaps because he understands that its declaration of moral and legal principle jeopardizes his policies that divide by race. Corporate diversity and equity programs that divide and classify by race should also be on notice that they will face legal challenges.

The American people seem to agree with the Court’s view. Even in liberal states such as California and Washington, voters have rejected race-based admissions. Pew’s latest polls show three-quarters of the population oppose the use of race in college admissions, including majorities of Asian-Americans, Hispanics and black Americans.

The U.S. still has much work to do to achieve a truly color-blind society. Above all it needs to liberate a K-12 education system that traps too many minorities in failure factories. But the attempt to discriminate by race in college admissions to make up for that failure creates other problems and judges individuals not by their talent or character but the color of their skin. As the Chief underscores, “Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-unc-students-for-fair-admissions-supreme-court-affirmative-action-john-roberts-clarence-thomas-racial-preferences-f8c998f6[/quote]

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