Supreme Court ends affirmative action in admissions. Colleges will be whiter for it.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Affirmative action originated from movements seeking to desegregate historically and predominantly white spaces.
49% : While I caution people from overstating the ripple effects of today's ruling and using language that discourages students of color from applying, we must use this moment to continue to state out loud that affirmative action or race conscious admissions policies have helped address our country's long history of discrimination and systemic inequality by increasing access to higher education for underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who face systemic barriers.
43% : Opponents of affirmative action are the same people trying to ban books by Black and LGBTQ authors from school curricula, to forcibly displace Native children from their families and to disenfranchise millions of Black and poor people through racial gerrymandering.
41% : The dismantling of affirmative action represents just one piece of a larger agenda to erase and rewrite our nation's history.
41% : As Justice Ginsburg wrote in her scathing dissent of Shelby v. Holder, the Supreme Court overturning affirmative action is akin to "throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
30% : Critics of affirmative action are wrong: Affirmative action is not and has never been a zero-sum game in college admissions

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