Last Thursday, the Supreme Court decisively struck down affirmative-action programs practiced by Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Court declared that affirmative action, which allowed universities to employ race-conscious admissions programs, violated the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause.
Unsurprisingly, the boo-birds immediately emerged from the woodwork. The Biden administration, left-leaning journalists, and progressive activists alike decried the ruling as a significant step back in the fight against systemic racism and discrimination. The Court’s decision, they say, will homogenize universities and harm efforts to achieve socio-demographic equity in education. Raul Reyes, an attorney who frequently writes for CNN and MSNBC, called the ruling “out of touch,” and argued that “the end of affirmative action will limit the ability of Latinos to access selective colleges and attain economic mobility.”
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