indictments he s facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what s next in his career and role and climate change activism? i m simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp college admissions process. now americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain, with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity in education. others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers forced civil rights or lcr fall to complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme court s admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they re asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system call
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
An advocacy group has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, from using race as a factor in its admissions policy after the high court struck down similar policies at other institutions last year.
from these unfair preferences. but we know that what it will take ultimately will be the pressure of the federal government to intervene to make sure that they stop. you have argued the supreme court s ruling didn t a mandate i completely colour-blind a standard that some opponents of race admissions were advocating for. but the day after the ruling, the missouri attorney general instructed colleges in that state to immediately stop considering race across all sectors. and that even included scholarships, even the speaker of the wisconsin state assembly, days after, implied the state legislature would be pursuing similar legislation. so, did the supreme court in your opinion create this loophole that can mean an end to scholarships intended to help students of color? the ruling actually has quite a bit of a window of opportunity to consider to continue to consider race on an individual level. chief justice roberts and his
allowed under the constitution. so theyun tried in 2000 and tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today today they succeed. roberts and thomas joined by the court s four other conservative justices voted to effectively strike down race conscious admissions. in a 6-3 ruling the supreme court found race admissions program at harvard and the university of north carolina, they found them unconstitutional in violation of the equal protections clause of the 14th amendment. chief justice roberts wrote the harvard and unc admissions programs cannot be reconciled with thebe equal protection clause. both programs lacked sufficient focus warranting the use of race, avoidable employ race in a negative manner, enjoy racial stereo-typing and lack meaningful end points. we have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way and we will not do so