Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other People Of Color. Here's how

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : This is affirmative action for the white and wealthy, Chen says.
61% : The framing here is clear, says Sally Chen with the group Chinese for Affirmative Action.
59% : But Poon says that doesn't describe a world with affirmative action; it better sums up our education system without it.
56% : Except the inverse of that equation lives just beneath the surface of Asian American opposition to affirmative action.
55% : "It's unclear who this is going to advantage," he said of his successful quest to end affirmative action.
55% : Experts and activists like Jeff Chang and OiYan Poon say contrary to Blum's claims, it is very clear who dismantling affirmative action will advantage — those who've always been "more equal" in American education, people with access to wealth and privilege.
54% : "I've been pouring over the data for years," she says — including the admissions data of Harvard before the court in one of the case that just ended affirmative action.
54% : While SFA produced no students to testify against affirmative action in their trials, Chen was one of eight Asian American students — current and former — who spoke on behalf of Harvard and affirmative action.
50% : In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston.
50% : But according to her research, affirmative action is not the source of that racism.
50% : Still a combination of real feelings of racial marginalization paired with personal experiences of children and students not getting into a very few spots at a very elite college, helped Blum tap into a narrative that affirmative action was targeting Asian Americans; that they were "less equal."
50% : That, he says, "makes affirmative action more complicated."
49% : Affirmative action, the argument went, was racist against white people.
49% : Students protest outside the meeting of the University of California's Board of Regents in favor of Affirmative Action.
48% : Blum had first cast two white women, most notably Abigail Fisher, to craft lawsuits intended to end affirmative action.
45% : (This was before California's 1996 ban on affirmative action created a steep drop off in Black and Latino students on University of California campuses).
45% : Instead of fighting for affirmative action, they were fighting to kill it.
44% : Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, saying race cannot be a factor.
44% : Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, saying race cannot be a factor.
44% : There is already a test case for ending affirmative action to be found in California's UC system.
42% : The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
41% : David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images Jeff Wang, whose son Michael was a poster child for Asian students against affirmative action after he was rejected from several elite collages, agrees that decades ago many Asian Americans needed the leg up provided by race conscious admissions.
40% : Then there is the issue of money, and the burdens of student debt.
40% : Poon acknowledges affirmative action was always an incomplete solution — a band aid over systemic racism that never addressed systemic causes.
39% : Jose Luis Magana/AP Some proponents of affirmative action agree that there are legitimate questions about whether or not Asian American admission numbers continue to be suppressed at some elite universities.
36% : "This myth of affirmative action being harmful to Asian Americans is creating a deliberate racial wedge between communities of color," she says.
32% : Majority-white campuses can be isolating and even toxic to underrepresented students — something that the likely drop in Black and Latino students post affirmative action will only make worse, says Sally Chen.

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