'I hoped that affirmative action could create a pathway for someone who looks like my son to gain access to the elite college campuses that have traditionally excluded us.'
"I hoped that affirmative action could create a pathway for someone who looks like my son to gain access to the elite college campuses that have traditionally excluded us.""My fear now is that if diversity is no longer mandatory in higher education, then it won’t be valued anywhere," the author writes.The news alert consisted of just six words, but they made my stomach sink: “Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action.
As I understand it, one of the early references to affirmative action in the U.S. was made by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in an executive order directing government contractors to take “affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.”
In an America where, from its inception, discrimination was not only “best practices” but the law, affirmative action was viewed as our nation’s effort to make good on harms done and level a distinctly unlevel playing field.
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