What Does the End of Affirmative Action Mean for Black Students?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "However, affirmative action wasn't a perfect solution.
63% :And in a statement, former first lady Michelle Obama wrote that "So often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level."
58% : In a long-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in higher education.
58% : In 1996, California became the first state to ax affirmative action after voters approved a proposition banning it, and the number of Black students at the state's public universities plummeted.
54% : For decades, affirmative action, or race-conscious admissions in higher education, has served as a buffer for structural and passive racism that can occur in the admissions process, especially toward Black and Brown students.
54% : As a reminder of the country's long history of systematic racism, Justice Jackson noted the universities' attempts to balance the scale of the admissions process with the help of affirmative action.
54% : In May, Sara Clarke Kaplan, the executive director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, pointed out that white women have been the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action.
43% : It's too early to tell, but we can guess from what's happened in the nine states that have already eliminated affirmative action.
41% : We can learn from the states where affirmative action has already been banned what the Supreme Court's decision to restrict race as a factor in the college admissions process will mean.
38% :And in 2006 when Michigan eliminated affirmative action, Black students were 7% of college students in the state.

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