The Supreme Court's affirmative action decision was based on the myth of 'colorblindness,' keishablain writes. But in her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a needed history lesson.
decision that codified Jim Crow and later racist practices such as redlining, Jackson enumerated some of the many ways Black people have been treated as second-class citizens.
Reminiscent of Thurgood Marshall, who before he became the first African American on the Supreme court was the lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended “separate but equal” policies in U.S. schools, Justice Jackson, in her dissent, laid out a case for the significance of affirmative action in higher education.
President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to the bench last year after he had promised on the campaign trail to nominate the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. His promise to name an African American woman was criticized by those who argued that such an appointment would somehow result in an unqualified nominee.
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