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Affirmative action is dead in US universities

1 July 2023

7:44 AM

1 July 2023

7:44 AM

Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based on skin colour. As Justice Clarence Thomas writes in his concurring opinion:

Many Universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the colour of their skin.

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