Michelle Obama: 'My Heart Breaks' After SCOTUS' Affirmative Action Ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "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," she wrote.
58% : "Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect," he said.
55% :Affirmative action policies, which came into use during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, were intended to help students of color access higher education and counterbalance the history of discrimination in schooling, which favored white men.
47% : Obama, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School in the 1980s, said that as one of the few Black students on campus, she sometimes wondered if others thought she had benefited from affirmative action.
41% : In the decision, the six conservative justices ruled along ideological lines that affirmative action in college admissions was unconstitutional, prohibiting the use of race as a factor in admissions.
36% : Critics of affirmative action have suggested the policies are outdated and in fact discriminatory, giving preference to students of some races over others.
30% : In her statement, Obama noted that critics of affirmative action did not question the fairness of other major factors in admissions, like legacy status or sports training.
17% : Following the Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, former first lady Michelle Obama released a powerful statement expressing her disappointment and explaining how the now-banned admissions policies impacted her own life and the lives of those around her.

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