SCOTUS’s Affirmative Action Vice Signaling

Since the U.S Supreme Court’s highly politicized decision to overturn affirmative action, I’ve been waiting to see how that decision might be stretched and twisted to attack other diversity-forward programming. I didn’t have to wait long for more than a dozen Republican attorneys general to send major corporations letters warning them to refrain from using racial preference in hiring and promotion decisions. The reasoning behind the affirmative action case to dismantle race-based recruiting programs in corporate America is that race and “color” shouldn’t be considered when evaluating an employment candidate. And yet, part of the lengthy “success” and brutality of chattel slavery in the U.S. — as well as the degradation of the land and identities of Indigenous peoples — was based on the insistence that our bodies, minds, and souls were inferior based on race or “color.” <a href="https://medium.com/@shijuade.kadree/scotuss-affirmative-action-vice-signaling-b55b36835946">Learn More</a>