Affirmative Action: A Black Professor's Perspective
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Wilfred Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. He has a law degree from Illinois and brings his legal mind to the conversation on the Supreme Court’s overturning of Affirmative Action. He also brings his wit, which you shouldn’t miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you're either really happy or your hair is on fire over the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action. |
| 0:07.8 | Someone sent out a really fascinating, fabulous tweet. |
| 0:11.8 | It reads, Justice Jackson makes the point that despite being 13% of the population, |
| 0:18.5 | blacks only make up 5% of the lawyers. While true, despite being only 13% of the population, blacks only make up five percent of the lawyers. While true, despite |
| 0:23.3 | being only 13 percent of the population, blacks make up 22 percent of the Supreme Court |
| 0:28.5 | justices. That was retweeted by a friend of mine, Will Riley. He's a professor. He's many things. |
| 0:35.5 | He is, your mind might be blown by the end of this conversation. |
| 0:41.3 | So stay soon. Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | Glad you're with us. I have a feeling we're going to be talking about affirmative action for almost as long as we talked about the Dobbs decision and abortion. |
| 0:57.7 | Today couldn't have a better guest than Will Riley. |
| 1:00.9 | He's a professor. |
| 1:01.7 | I love reading people's Twitter descriptions of themselves because they write them themselves. |
| 1:06.8 | It's kind of like writing your own gravestone the way you want people to see you. |
| 1:10.1 | So Will Riley. |
| 1:11.2 | And he's at Will underscore Duh underscore Beast 630. |
| 1:16.5 | A college professor now, I am a former corporate executive, freedom writer, law student, and poor kid, man attracted to non-men. |
| 1:25.9 | All right. |
| 1:27.4 | And you can hear him on the Cut the Bull podcast. |
| 1:30.4 | You've probably seen him on a million shows. |
| 1:32.2 | We're lucky enough to have them here today to talk about affirmative action, what it means. |
| 1:38.7 | And I'm going to tell you this because you may not see it right away, but the professor, Will Riley, is black. |
| 1:46.9 | All right? |
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