At last! Supremes strike down college-admissions racism that's never...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Defenders of affirmative action insist that a racially diverse student body promotes learning.
52% : Contrary to what most Americans assume, affirmative action has never helped poor kids.
47% : In 1978, Justice Lewis Powell, the swing vote on a court divided over affirmative action, argued that racial considerations were not permissible to rectify past injustices, but should be permitted to promote campus "diversity."
46% : When it upheld affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School in 2003, the justices knew "this is dangerous and it has to have an end point," explained Barrett.
41% : They're inventing a new rationale for affirmative action, claiming it's justified to correct historic wrongs.
26% :Affirmative action is a euphemism for an ugly process -- reverse discrimination.

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