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On Point | Podcast

How California public colleges boosted diversity without affirmative action

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Decades before the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down affirmative action, voters in California did the same, ending affirmative action in the nation's largest state higher ed system. Youlanda Copeland-Morgan and John McWhorter join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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When the United States Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 majority

0:55.0

to abolish affirmative action last week,

0:58.0

responses ran the political spectrum.

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But they all had something in common.

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They were powerful and utterly predictable.

1:06.0

The opinion issue today marks the beginning of the restoration

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of the colorblind legal covenant

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