Dreams of a thriving multiracial democracy were dealt another blow by the Supreme Court, which, yesterday ruled that colleges and universities could not take race into account when deciding whether or not to accept students.
Couched in the garbled legalese which can make freedom sound like slavery, the 6 justice majority voted to go back to an earlier era when white privilege was enough to ensure admission to elite universities over equally qualified POC applicants. Or, worse yet the admission of blacks with lesser grades whose only sin was being born black in a white man's world.
It is ironic this latest attempt to roll back racial justice should come at a time of falling enrollment at many colleges. These institutions will be scrambling to recruit students of any and all colors in an attempt to keep their student body numbers stable. Elite institutions such as Harvard and other Ivy league schools are not worried at present and their degrees will still provide a path to wealth and power.
Society as a whole suffers when racism and other forms of oppression are allowed to thrive. It will take many years to undo the harm of this court ruling.
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