is to say you can believe inrmin self-determination. you can believe ination. settinp your own business. you can play with sustaining your church or your synagogue and so forth without necessarily viewing yourself r with either a democrat or republican. ththe probhuman thing that we re talking about. the problem has been historically that districts as an institution that come from slavery and the afterlife of slavery did not open upand and provide opportunity. there s only since the 1960s and seventies that that s the case. and i thin the ck we can agreeth on that. the question now is, in 2023, how do you keep track of the self determination ofod black folk or anybody else that has little to do h with whether you re democrat or republican and so forth? but understand that there are still racist practices goingin on in various sites and spheres in our society. brothe once you say what is what does brother robert say? webert say have to be indifferet to race. are you going to be indiffer
i mean, some something likee that. thdo you think this is going to be used in this election, ine next election, lik the abortion issue, was useduse to rally democratsto? lawrence this is a very narrow ruling by the supreme court. rr john roberts doesn t do very broad things. this only affecttss affirmative action in the admissions universities, doesn t apply to workplace orrk sports or anythingplace else. just that, i think. and when you pull the american people, pew found 63% of% of americans of all races thought race should not be used for college admission. your character, your courage, your academic achievement, that shouldurc achiev be the criterih you are judged, not the color of our skin or the vowel at the end of our names. and i say that as arroyo, as a spanish man, and i think you would agree as a as an the african-american man. well, they also threw him a bone. and at the end and i thoughtthrr was very crafty at the endaf to say, i m not saying that
. we actually had to havenation the national guard escortrd esc studentsor because there were those who said we know better. let s remember when this push for racial separation was occurring, we did not hearing, w you and i. history says we did not hear. w we don t like black people. they said we need separation because it s good for blacks and for whites. we re hearing from harvard and we rring froe hearing from r progressives. we got to keep separat, we have fighting on the grounds of race because it s good for blacks and it s good for america. it s resistance for the 21st century. shame on our president for not being like eisenhower to stand with the court eisenho, instead instructing his party and hisero
meritocracy approve of this decisiony ap. a few d just a few days ago, cbs newss ran a poll asking americans about this very issue. ver70% responded that colleges should not be allowed to use race in college admissions. a new york times poll recentlyam found 60% of democrats also oppose race as a factor in admissions. americans across the country have rejected affirmative action at the ballot box, too, evenat the b in blue state calia in the 2020 election. democratic leaders in the state put affirmative action on the ballot. the pre action oo affirmative an activists, the governor, both supp senators, even the golden state warriors, pushed voters to support the initiativthey oe they outspent opponents of oppon affirmative action by 19 to 1. and in the end, nearly 60% of californians voted to kill affirmative action. . it didn t work. no matter how hard the democratic party matte trieo matter how much money
hesitantly ascribed to race even itlcen the segregated south where i grew up, thomas wrote,ew individuals were not the sum of their skin color. then, as now, no oft all on disparities are based on race. not all people are races can issue is the president of the color as united. it is on the board for students for fair missions that brought this case against affirmative action. he joins us now. kenny, i i ve seen some ofces an your appearances and i ve seen peop attack you.led did this have anything to do with you not liking black student are not like inwat hispanics or did you just want a fair chance to get into schoolo ge? on the contrary, lawrence. the this has to do with me standing up for the dignity of all people. do you know what affirmative action does at the usc schoolat of medicine? e alli the allied health sciences? they said that black students