The United States Supreme Court has ended race-based affirmative action on universities

Historic news in the United States. he United States Supreme Court Thursday ended with Positive discrimination to racial issues in universitiesholding that Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution by using Race as a factor in the admission process. The opinion was written by the Chief Justice, Justice John Roberts, and endorsed by the five Tory justices. The three progressive justices opposed it.

“Many universities (…) have concluded, wrongly, that the cornerstone of one’s identity is not the challenges overcome, the skills built, or the lessons learned, but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate this decision,” from It can be read in the sentence.

Despite this, the ruling indicates that there is nothing to prevent universities from considering how a student’s experience with the university will be racism She influenced his life in the admissions process, but always individually.

The judges consider the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, two of the oldest institutions in the country, to violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equality before the law. On the other hand, in the case of North CarolinaThe indictment argued that the admissions policy discriminated against white and Asian candidates versus African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. In case Harvarda group of Asian students decried the use of subjective criteria to limit the number of accepted candidates.

She writes that progressive Justice Sonia Sotomayor has always defended universities’ ability to factor race into the admissions process. He advocated “equal opportunity in education as a prerequisite to achieving racial equality in our nation.” For her part, African American Judge Kitangi Brown Jackson said, “Considering that race has nothing to do with the law does not make it so in life.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, also an African-American and one of the more conservative figures on the court, accused Jackson of believing that “all outcomes in life can be traced beyond doubt to race.”

Positive discrimination

the Positive discrimination It gained particular importance in the country during the movement to defend the civil rights of African Americans and to end school segregation in the 1950s.

Since 1978, the Supreme Court has protected the right of universities to consider race as a factor in the admissions process, albeit in a limited way.