action, what does it mean for students of color moving forward. what does it mean for student bodies. what does it mean for the student experience? what it means, you know, if you take all of these cases together, if you think about all the grievances about this election, what you are seeing is the backlash in the sense that people do not want to seek lack and brown people excel in this country. i think it is really something that is unfortunate that we have to pay attention to and allowing the courts to legitimize licensed discrimination in this kind of way, it really makes this not the country that we want to be, not the future that we want to move forward. debtholders being poor and working people. we know that, disproportionally, black women are going to be impact, we know that the wealthy, the
stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points. so they are going point by point, and what the admissions policies at unc and harvard did wrong. we see the biting dissents from the three liberal justices where they say it is going to be a devastating impact. and joan talk about the liberal justices of the two of them having a lived experiences of how race affected their lives and that race needs to be considered, and considered to provide opportunity, and to allow for diversity, and, john, kate, sara, this is what the universities will be struggling with going forward and how the restructure the admissions programs, and also, struggling with how to sufficiently diversify their student bodies when their student applicants can no longer check a box telling them what race they are. standby. i want to go to jeff zeleny now, and you have been getting more reaction coming in, and what are you picking up?
race. this will have historic impacts going forward as colleges try to diverse their student bodies, looking at any adversity students have overcome. they can no longer look at race. it s something already hang in eight states across the country. the public system in california, they cannot look at race there. a lot of colleges have said it s been increasingly hard to keep their student bodies racially diverse, hard to underestimate how big of a decision this is coming from the supreme court today. it may not be surprising given the composition of the court, but it will have long and lasting impacts on how colleges around the country diversify their student bodies without looking at race as a factor. there is still so much more for us to dissect in this opinion, obviously. charles, your thoughts on the top line, affirmative action no longer constitutional according to the supreme court justices. ana, we ve been headed to this space for a very long time, and unfortunately there is a
argument that stood out to me was from justice sonia sotomayor. she said sometimes race does correlate to some experiences and not others. she says if you re black, you re more likely to be in an under resourced school. you re more likely to be taught as by teachers who are not as qualified as others. those are some of the obstacles some people of color are up against when it comes to having the kind of academic success and opportunity that others may otherwise have. let s go back to julia ainsley. you ve been working hard to try to read through this opinion. what are you learning? reporter: it s right in a 6-3 decision for harvard 6-2 decision for harvard and 6-3 decision for unc the justices are ending affirmative action as we know it. chief justice roberts puts this a lot of caveats on ways that schools can continue to try to bring people of color into their student bodies.