The Supreme Court’s Decision on Race-Conscious Admissions Cements Racial Inequality in America
<p>Confronting our nation’s long history of subjugation, repression, and cruelty is imperative if we are to ensure that the United States lives up to its promise of providing equal opportunity to all. Instead, the Supreme Court has erected new barriers to practices that were initially intended to right the injustices of the past, risking a return to pre–Civil Rights Era segregation in our selective colleges and universities. Previous Supreme Court justices, uncomfortable with admitting to the existence of systemic racial bias, shifted the legal justification for affirmative action from societal justice to the educational benefits of diversity. This latest decision severs the thread between selective postsecondary admissions and reparative justice altogether. Meanwhile, systematic inequality grounded in racial and socioeconomic segregation persists within the education system and beyond it.</p>
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