トームのインスタグラム(tomenyc) - 6月30日 05時15分

#repost @theatlantic Today, the Supreme Court has effectively outlawed affirmative action, using two court cases brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “The result of the Court’s decision: a normality of racial inequity. Again,” Uma Mazyck Jayakumar and Ibram X. Kendi argue.

“Admissions metrics both historically and currently value qualities that say more about access to inherited resources and wealth—computers and counselors, coaches and tutors, college preparatory courses and test prep—than they do about students’ potential. Affirmative action attempted to compensate not just for these metrics that give preferential treatment to white students, but also for the legacy of racism in society,” Jayakumar and Kendi write. “This legacy is so deep and wide that affirmative action has rightly been criticized as a superficial, Band-Aid solution. Still, it has been the only admissions policy that pushes against the deep advantages white Americans receive in the other admissions metrics under the cover of ‘race neutral.’ One study found that 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard were recruited athletes, legacy students, the children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list (as relatives of donors)—compared with only 16 percent of Black, Latino, and Asian American students. About 75 percent of white admitted students ‘would have been rejected’ if not in those four categories, the study found.”

“To frame policies as ‘race neutral’ or ‘not racist” or ‘race blind’ because they don’t have racial language—or because the policy makers deny a racist intent—is akin to framing Jim Crow’s grandfather clauses and poll taxes and literacy tests as ‘race neutral’ and ‘not racist,’ even as these policies systematically disenfranchised Black southern voters,” Jayakumar and Kendi continue at the link in our bio. “Today, racial inequities prove that policies proclaimed to be ‘race neutral’ are hardly neutral. Race, by definition, has never been neutral. In a multiracial United States with widespread racial inequities in wealth, health, and higher education, policies are not ‘race neutral.’”

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