How Affirmative Action Changed Their Lives

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Two weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, declaring that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful. Today, three people whose lives were changed by affirmative action discuss the complicated feelings they have about the policy. Guest: Sabrina Tavernise, a co-host of The Daily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny-C, and this is the Daily.
0:07.8	Two weeks ago today, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, upending years of
0:13.1	admissions practices at selective colleges.
0:17.0	Since then, the Daily has been talking to Americans around the country about that decision.
0:22.5	Yeah, this admissions cycle for college was very tough on me, and there was a lot of
0:29.4	speculation that it was because of my race.
0:31.6	I've always been pro-affirmative action.
0:33.4	It's always maybe a little uncomfortable.
0:34.9	I'm in the same way that I think it makes most people of color who had the benefits of
0:39.3	affirmative action a little uncomfortable.
0:41.4	I guess we all expected that affirmative action would be a temporary arrangement, but
0:46.9	it looks like every time we take a few steps forward, we take three steps backwards.
0:52.4	Today, we hear from three people who explain how affirmative action changed the course
0:57.9	of their lives.
0:59.5	The complicated feelings they have about it, and what they think of a future without the
1:04.9	policy.
1:06.8	It's Thursday, July 13th.
1:15.2	Dr. Sims, what was going through your head when you first heard the news?
1:19.6	Well, I was on, I was pissed, you know.
1:22.4	I've been fighting my whole life.
1:23.7	I'm getting sick of this crap, you know, because any time it looks like we as a people
1:29.3	are getting an advantage, people just freak out.
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