Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Last week the Supreme Court upheld a ban on the use of affirmative action in Michigan. I felt so overwhelmed with anger and shock when I heard this. The implications of this decision are so big that it was difficult for me to pick a part all of the ways that it's going to manifest, it's just so much bigger than thinking about race and access at the post secondary level. When I heard this story on Democracy Now, I was so relieved to hear some reporting that was connecting the decision to Jim Crow and Brown vs. Board of Education, a bigger picture perspective of education and race in this country that thinks about why affirmative action was established to begin with.

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