I'm back just when you thought it was safe to get back to watching CNN back.

I told you yesterday I was going on vacation, but I said that I would do the show.

If the Supreme Court came down with its very important decision on race and affirmative

action in colleges and universities, and I predicted they would come down with that

decision today, so check another one for a correct prediction. It's a very important

decision. How long was it now? 60 years ago, must have been 60 years ago, on a hot

day in August, I was on the mall and listening to a guy named Martin Luther King make

a speech, and I heard him say the words, I have a dream that someday my children will

be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the quality of their character. And that

day is today. That day is the day that Martin Luther King's dream finally became reality

finally became reality, at least became constitutional reality. Who would have imagined

that that liberal approach, that approach, championed by Martin Luther King, championed by

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, the most liberal person who ever served on the

Supreme Court, championed by me since 1970 when I've been opposed to the use of race and

affirmative action, who would have imagined that that liberal colorblind approach would

have been decided on by a 6 to 3 vote with the 6 voting for the liberal approach, being

6 conservatives, and the 3 voting against the liberal approach, being 3 liberals. How

the world has changed since Martin Luther King, how I wish we could go back to the days

of Martin Luther King when we knew what equality meant, equality meant meritocracy, judging

people based on their own accomplishments, on their own hard work, on overcoming difficulties.

And the Supreme Court says you can take into account overcoming difficulties, you can even

take into account if somebody's race has had an impact on their life, either by discriminating

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