“Students should be treated based on their individual experiences, not on racial criteria,” says statement.
Newsroom (01/07/2023 19:59, Gaudium Press) The United States Supreme Court has eliminated positive discrimination programs at universities, rejecting compensation quotas for some minorities.
As usual in certain US Supreme Court decisions, the ruling was supported by the six conservative justices, and rejected by the three progressive justices.
In the case in question, decided by the Supreme Court, it was established that “Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution by using racial criteria in the student admissions process.” Chief Justice John Roberts was the reporter of the ruling. The case began in 2018 after a lawsuit by an association representing students of Asian descent.
“Many universities have wrongly considered that the basis of a person’s identity is not their competence, the qualifications acquired or the lessons learned, but the color of their skin. Our history, the Constitution, does not condone that,” John Roberts said.
“The chief justice criticizes the progressive magistrates’ position for preferring “a judiciary that picks winners and losers based on the color of their skin. The minority certainly would not allow university policies that discriminate against black and Hispanic applicants, but they are perfectly willing to allow those policies to continue.”
Because of so-called positive discrimination in universities, many white or Asian students fail to get into universities, even though they have good scores on entrance exams. Now, universities will have to correct these practices.
A curious fact, not without relevance, is that Justice Roberts studied at Harvard, first at Harvard College, where he studied history, and then at Harvard Law School, where he studied law, being awarded summa cum laude in history and magna laude in law.
Compiled by Teresa Joseph
