'We will not allow hate-inspired people in power to turn back the clock,' the head of the NAACP said as civil rights organizations condemn the Supreme Court for ending affirmative action programs at Harvard and UNC.
on Thursday, with one top group accusing the high court of turning back the clock on the nation's history of racial progress.
"Race plays an undeniable role in shaping the identities of and quality of life for Black Americans," Johnson added."In a society still scarred by the wounds of racial disparities, the Supreme Court has displayed a willful ignorance of our reality. The NAACP will not be deterred nor silenced in our fight to hold leaders and institutions accountable for their role in embracing diversity no matter what," he added in part.
"Affirmative action was a commonly embraced policy because it served as a check on an admission process that was rife with racism, nepotism, and favoritism for generations," Sharpton said in a statement."The reality is race plays a factor in admissions, from pre-K to post-doctorate, and institutions just saw their best tool for fairness outlawed."
In that case, a white man named Allan Bakke sued after he was twice rejected from the medical school at the University of California, Davis. The agreed court agreed that Bakke had been discriminated against when the school decided to set aside 16 seats for minority students, but the justices allowed the use of race as a factor in the holistic admissions process.
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