time when affirmative action was necessary, simply to opening the doors of all of our schools and universities. but i think that time has passed. and we continue to move forward as a color blind society. >> a color blind society -- that concept was the central struggle of the supreme court's decision to strike down race conscious admissions policies last week. now, the campaign trail and elsewhere, the takeaway seems to be, we have achieved some kind of colour-blind nevada, that race conscious social inequity inequities, disenfranchised white people. so, we should be race neutral or colour-blind. presidential candidate mike pence suggests. to bolster his argument and the majority opinion last week, chief justice john roberts cited, jim crow justice john marshall harlan, and then often core called the great dissenter. roberts appointed to a specific section of harlan's dissent in ferguson case in 1896 as a separate but equal case. haaland wrote, our constitution