For more than 50 years, the Left got away with discrimination in education, calling it by innocuous names and declaring that it had nothing but good effects. Those who prefer a color-blind nation fought against it in the courts and finally got the Supreme Court to rule against it last year.
In today’s Martin Center article, attorney T. J. Harker reviews the history and looks to the future.
He writes:
Asian and white students have started to wonder whether their “privilege” is really all it’s made out to be. They observe that anti-white and anti-Asian racism in universities, spurred on by the Left, has begun to spiral out of control. This has led them to fight back. Their efforts began to bear fruit just last year in Students for Fair Admissions. There, the Supreme Court began to undo the damage wrought by nearly 50 years of racism in admissions:
Of course, there is much more to be done to get rid of the many racially discriminatory programs that colleges and universities have been running, such as scholarship programs open only to certain students based on race.
Read the whole thing.