Affirmative action and student loan forgiveness are hitting the Black American community specifically.
Two decisions from the Supreme Court this week — affirmative action and student loan forgiveness — are affecting Black Americans particularly hard.
He went on to say,"affirmative action as a well-intentioned idea that is poorly executed in reality." "Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life," countered Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson."I felt the weight of the decision, not only for myself, but for all of those who would come before me fighting for exactly what was struck down," said Nahla Owens, a junior at Harvard University.
The University of Michigan has seen a 44% decline in Black enrollment since 2006, when the flagship school ended the use of race in admissions."At the most selective institutions, diversity, racial diversity among the students declined.
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