Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Once a bastion of segregation, the University of North Carolina now takes account of race to make up for its sordid history and to increase the number of Black students and other underrepresented minorities on campus.

Joy Jiang, a 19-year-old sophomore from Harrisburg, North Carolina, and co-director of the affirmative action group, said recent racial tensions on campus that she described as a backlash after the statue came down, have scared away some students of color from vocalizing their support for affirmative action.

Students for Fair Representation also makes repeated use of the June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protection for abortion to bolster its arguments that the court should jettison its affirmative action precedents.The abortion decision in Dobbs v.

That case was decided only six years ago, but the makeup of the court has changed significantly since then, with the addition of the three Trump appointees and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s first Black woman. Four justices attended law school at Harvard, and two were undergraduates there. Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame and Holy Cross also have joined briefs in defense of Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions plans.

 

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Affirmative action is by definition racist.

Must've been Clarence.

Good.. About time We remove this Blatant example of racism from our society.

Universities shldn't feel they have to discriminate against others for them to help one 'The challengers to the universities’ programs have lost at every step as lower courts have rejected their claims that the schools discriminate against white and Asian American applicants.'

Affirmative action is racism in its purest form

Good. Discrimination based on race is wrong. Don't cope. Educate yourself, be a decent person, and celebrate.

Affirmative action is required until racism is eliminated.

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