it s the court. this is it. you re seeing the rulings reflect that. we want to talk about those rulings. you think first it was abortion rights last year. it was also gun laws to some degree and now the supreme court has gutted affirmative action in college admissions declaring race cannot be an express factor in picking students. it s the latest sweeping change ushered in by a conservative super majority as poppy was noting, that is reshaping america as we know it, very in line with what conservative legal scholars have been pushing for for years. the historic landmark ruling could have lasting effects on the university campuses across the nation. the class entering this fall will be the last affirmative action class. it was this time last year that the supreme court overturned roe vs. wade. one year later most abortions are banned in 14 states. some don t allow any exceptions for rape or incest. the supreme court with a landmark ruling on the second amendment and guns, a huge
police shooting of a 17-year-old. hundreds of arrests have been made across the country. the fourth of july travel surge officially here. the tsa says today will be the busiest yet for airports with more than 2.8 million passengers expected to take off for the holiday. cnn this morning starts right now. well, as phil just said this morning we are waking up in a very different america, a post-affirmative action america, after the supreme court declared race cannot be an expressed factor in college admissions in a historic ruling this up-ends 50 years of jurisprudence and markets a huge and immediate shift for students. the class entering college this fall will be the last affirmative action class. it s just the latest sweeping change ushered in by a conservative super majority court over the past year and a half. it was this time last year when
which in majority strokes went to white americans, there were a few other exceptions, it created the middle class, it provided opportunities for them to buy homes, to get educated and to get employment. that is an extraordinary degree of affirmative action. when babe ruth set the home run record, he was an affirmative action class. he wasn t batting against the greatest ballplayers. he was batting against the greatest white ballplayers. so my point is simply we don t ask white people to ask questions about their privilege in the negative. so that now as it s talked about in regard to sotomayor, you want to change the rules. when the rules benefited you, it was all good. when it didn t benefit you, thousand it becomes a problem. the burden of race still is born on the back of those african, latino and others and america must see that it has imposed