'ECSTATIC': Advocate reveals why SCOTUS decision to end affirmative action is all he's ever wanted.
Color Us United president Kenny Xu explains why he's "ecstatic" the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions last week.rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions last week after he spent years pushing for a race-blind America.
SUPREME COURT REJECTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN RULING ON UNIVERSITIES USING RACE IN ADMISSIONS DECISIONS The Supreme Court ruled that admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment, and Xu is a board member for Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiff in the case. He said his role was essentially tofor the case, but he doesn’t think it would have been successful if Asian Americans didn’t come out to support it.
Kenny Xu’s book,"An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy," examines how Ivy League universities such as Harvard discriminate against qualified Asian Americans to maintain a particular racial makeup in their student body."People should be treated based on their content of their character," he said. , but urged everyone to calm down.
"The fight is not over," he said."We have to continue to fight back against the pernicious influence of the racism narrative in our country. Remember, it was the racism narrative that brought about affirmative action." "The reality is racism is far less of an influence than it was in our country before. We should be moving towards a merit based, colorblind society in an increasingly diverse society across many respects," Xu said."Campaign needs to continue to rid, for example, the pernicious influence of diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI]."
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