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The US Supreme Court did not outlaw bias in college admissions
It outlawed a kind of bias, one that its rightwing supermajority dislikes.
Affirmative Action
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Why they accuse Black people of being a privileged class
If your goal is to bury the lede on affirmative action, you'll never come to terms with the ugly truth about racism, writes Allison Wiltz.
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Yeah, no, Reconstruction laws were actually race conscious
Critics of affirmative action want you to believe that laws meant to protect Black people weren’t meant to protect Black people.
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Affirmative action isn’t bias. It’s politics that rightwing justices don’t like and will strike down
That’s what we should focus on.
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Who needs affirmative action when we have racism?
Leveraging white power can produce the same results.
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The fight over affirmative action is the anxiety of white people fearing their dislocation from the center might help Black people
This Supreme Court probably won't let that happen.
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It looks like the six Republican justices are ready to believe the lies told about affirmative action
Edward Blum’s corrupt faith in “colorblindness.”