Do you think that the goals of affirmative action are feasible without affirmative action?

No.

I went to college as a result of affirmative action, then.

I can't imagine right now how that's going to work, seeing how the society is structured.

Claire's Thomas would not be where he was, is today if it was not for affirmative action.

There's no color blind in America.

Why now?

Why did they take up that case?

I think sometimes when you are popular and you're hanging with rich people,

you don't recognize that racism exists.

Yeah, I think there's going to be a significant rise in white students

and a decline in number of blackness finding in other community students.

Which is terrible, and I think students will always find a university to go to

but they will probably come down to tier, which will affect job prospects

which will, you know, have repercussions over the years.

It's Notes from America, I'm Kai Wright.

Welcome to the show.

We are going to have a conversation this week about the Supreme Court's ruling

ending race-based affirmative action, about the ideas articulated in the

justice's opinions because for me, the logic behind the ruling is as consequential

as the fact of it.

Ideas matter and not just as a legal concern.

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