Tonight on The Readout, find it just so out of sports with the basic value system

of American people.

And I think that across the board, the vast majority of American people don't agree

with that a lot of decisions is coordinated.

President Biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague Nicole Wallace responding to

today's very predictable Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

And that is where we begin tonight with the United States Supreme Court once again turning

the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century, striking down

the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

The Roberts Court, which wouldn't even look like the court it is today without affirmative

action, deciding in a pair of rulings that race conscious admissions programs at Harvard

University and the University of North Carolina violate equal protection under the Constitution.

It is fitting then that it would be the court's first black woman justice, Katangi Brown-Jackson,

who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression, writing in her dissent.

With let them eat cake obliviousness today, the majority pulls the rip cord and announces

color blindness for all by legal fiat.

But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.

The best that can be said of the majority's perspective is that it precedes ostrich

like from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism.

The court essentially says in this ruling that after a generation or two of racial progress

in education, after hundreds of years of rank discrimination on the basis of race, we've

done enough.

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