The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Bell, who died in 2011, at the age of eighty, would have been less focussed on the fact that white politicians responded to that reckoning by curtailing discussions of race in public schools than that they did so in conjunction with a larger effort to shore up the political structures that disadvantage African Americans.
46% : In May, 1954, when the Supreme Court struck down legally mandated racial segregation in public schools, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the decision was instantly recognized as a watershed in the nation's history.
44% : He sued the regents of the University of California, arguing that he had been denied admission because of the school's minority set-aside admissions, or quotas -- and that affirmative action amounted to "reverse discrimination.
37% : Bell's skepticism was deepened by the Supreme Court's 1978 decision in Bakke v. University of California, which challenged affirmative action in higher education.
35% : Yet, within a few years, as volatile conflicts over affirmative action and school busing arose, those victories began to look less like an antidote than like a treatment for an ailment whose worst symptoms can be temporarily alleviated but which cannot be cured.

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