Why Does America Nonetheless Want Affirmative Motion? (Opinion)

To the Editor:

The current ruling ending affirmative motion in school admissions could have unfavorable implications for our nation, particularly in Ok-12 (“Supreme Court docket Ends Affirmative Motion in Faculty Admissions in Choice Watched by Ok-12,” June 29, 2023). When the ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger was first handed down in 2003, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor theorized that racial preferences can be unconstitutional in 25 years. Merely put, she appeared to have had excessive expectations for American society to right itself from the years of systemic racism that overtly—and ultimately covertly—harmed a major a part of society. Nonetheless, since its inception, affirmative motion appeared to have been a Band-Help to put over the issue and worse, an excuse to not handle it.

In some communities, affirmative motion is extolled as a chance to have academic establishments acknowledge the results of historic systemic racism that has plagued America and its residents of coloration. Although affirmative motion has benefited many underrepresented college students, it has not helped the nation handle the foundation explanation for the problem: Why does racism nonetheless exist in America?

Now that affirmative motion has been struck down by the court docket, I’m curious to see whether or not predominantly white schools recidivate as a result of the related conversations are nonetheless being circumvented. As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had acknowledged in her dissent, “Our nation has by no means been colorblind.” Due to this fact, although affirmative motion did its greatest to convey the conversations to the desk, it’s our job, as a society, to lastly surmount racism.

Miraflore J. Villabrera
Particular Training Instructor
Brooklyn, N.Y.