A black woman’s perspective
US Supreme Court has officially struck down affirmative action in college admissions. Here’s a ton of great reasons why that’s a great idea.
- Diversity of skin color is not true diversity. It’s superficial. If you’re looking for real diversity, look for diversity in values, opinions, and achievements.
- When you use affirmative action policies, you are robbing students of color of their achievements. They now get to wonder, “Did I get in because of my race or because I deserve to be here?”
- You can actually bring about more racism with affirmative action policies because now white students look at students of color and think they got in because of their race. And if they look at the evidence in some of these cases, they’d be right.
- Asian and white students have to have far better academic standing in order to get into the same colleges as their black, Hispanic, and native counterparts.
- This country and its colleges discriminated against people of color. That’s a fact. Nobody can deny it. But we do not fix past discrimination with current discrimination. That is antithetical to the very values of this country.
If you want to see progress in America, you should fight for a race-neutral future. ~Amala Ekpunobi