Southern Education Foundation

“Today’s decision is yet another sad attempt to absolve the nation of any responsibility for the continuing effects of discrimination on the basis of race.

The roots of today’s decision can be traced back to Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, a ruling that sent us down a path of distancing ourselves from efforts to redress the damage done to African Americans by more than a century of brutally discriminatory policies following emancipation and the conclusion of the Civil War.