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🗓️ 24 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I promise to Sunyata that I'll add her next and I'm doing that right now. |
| 0:06.4 | So this is about affirmative action. |
| 0:12.6 | It should be. |
| 0:15.1 | Okay. |
| 0:15.8 | Hello. |
| 0:16.3 | Are my audible? |
| 0:18.8 | Am I audible? |
| 0:20.7 | I can hear you. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, I'll be going to Professor Lowry. |
| 0:23.6 | How's it going, Nikita? |
| 0:25.6 | Yes, Glenn, Patricia Lari. |
| 0:27.6 | I had a couple questions. |
| 0:28.6 | So I'm a graduate student currently black. |
| 0:32.6 | And I've been looking at the attacks on affirmative action and DEI that the Trump administration is doing, students for fair admissions. |
| 0:43.3 | And I want to know, in your honest opinion, do you think that some of the rhetoric you've espoused against affirmative action in DEI has harmed black students in any capacity |
| 0:55.9 | over the recent years because it does seem like there is a overreach in attacking institutions |
| 1:02.9 | for these things currently. |
| 1:05.4 | My direct answer to you is no, I don't think that I've harmed black students by the arguments that I've made many over the years going back into early parts of my career about affirmative action. |
| 1:19.6 | I think that the Supreme Court's decision in students for fair, students for fair admissions was a rightly decided I've been |
| 1:32.9 | around and around and around on this I was for affirmative action before I was |
| 1:36.6 | against it before I was for it before I was against it I think if you look at |
| 1:42.7 | Justice Roberts opinion as I recall, he says the pre-existing regime |
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