A critical workaround for the loss of race-conscious college admissions will be for lawmakers to strive to re-industrialize our big cities and catalyze skilled labor development in Black America.
At many elite colleges, like Cornell, Yale, and Harvard, classrooms are stocked with legacy admissions and affluent students whose parents are well connected and college educated. To be sure, race-conscious admissions—which the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional last month in—has allowed some elite schools to achieve nominal levels of diversity. Given ongoing disparities in wealth background of students at these institutions, however, that victory has been pyrrhic.
Another, having little to do with college admissions at all and already partially begun by the current presidential administration, is for this country to finally reinvest in the sort of working-class labor market that fueled economic success in earlier generations.It’s important to understand the history here. The resort to race consciousness in lieu of a post-slavery-inclined affirmative action is a direct byproduct of the U.S.
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