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And why it s important for them to lift up their own lived experiences and when those are affected by their race. and so we knew it was going to be tough. but we also felt that we had done what we needed to do. if this court was going to try and pull down on affirmative action or pull down on the progress that we made, it should have been very tough for them to have done that. sounds like it was pretty easy for them, and ironically, you re the one who had students with you. elie, eager to hear your thoughts. the supreme court got it wrong in terms of the law, the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment was not passed to help white sons like jared kushner and brett kavanaugh get into school. the first time we had affirmative action in this country was not the 1960s. it was the 1860s. we had affirmative action during ....
It seems fitting that we continue to have this because we had a lot we had a couple centuries of that violence and that history compared to just a few decades of being free of that, even at the university of north carolina, they had that university was created in 1789 to serve the children of slave owners at the time, and they fought for 200 years to continue to exclude black students. so we knew going in to the argument that it was going to be a tough sell for this court, this sitting court. prior courts with republican appointed and democratic appointed justices had put aside those differences of politicized opinions, but this court through some of its questions you could kind of start reading through. we did feel very strongly that the law, the facts, and the constitution were on our side. and we had strong evidence from our own students discussing how ....
And in fact, it is unconstitutional to even consider it when blacks are still 10% of white wealth in this country, when we across the board, the metrics speak for themselves. that happened because the law made us less than equal citizens in this country. david, i mean, the implications are broad, and it is beyond just african americans. latinos are also underrepresented in colleges, even in places like california where latinos are the largest racial group. this is going to impact everyone except the scions of rich white families. it will if we let it. because this decision, as incredibly distressing, as incredibly tragic as it is to what we know as the rule of law, which everybody likes to say, but they don t like to put it in practice, as distressing as everything is, this case actually is just about harvard ....
Them eat cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulled the rip cord and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat, but deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. the best that can be said of the majority s perspective that it proceeds ostrich like that hoping the prevention of race will end racism. they say after a generation of two, after hundreds of years of rank discrimination on the basis of race, we have done enough. we re all equal. everything is fine. despite vast and persistent inequalities in wealth literally created on the backs of black americans and kept in place for generations even after this country stopped enslaving black people on the basis of race in 1865. for the better part of the next century, america embraced the ....
Reconstruction. we know that affirmative action during reconstruction was constitutional because they ratified the 14th amendment so that they could pass legislation that would help to revoke the racism of the past and those policies included affirmative action. so as ketanji brown jackson pointed out in her dissent and in oral arguments, the supreme court was flatly wrong on the law. now, we can all know why the supreme court decided to get this particular law so wrong, and it wasn t to help the aapi students who were trying to get into harvard and yale. it was trying to help mediocre white students who feel outcompeted and blame black students for quote/unquote taking their spots. it was a terrible decision on the law, but we all know the real reason why people like john roberts did it. and i mean, just to sort of make that point and sort of enhance that point, joyce vance, ....