Conservatives are interpreting the court’s ruling broadly, and since last summer, they have used it to attack racial-justice programs outside the field of higher education.
These challenges to racial-justice programs will have a lasting impact on the nation’s ability to address the vast disparities that Black people experience.
Though the civil rights movement is celebrated and commemorated as a proud period in American history, it faced an immediate backlash.
The progressive activists who advanced civil rights for Black Americans argued that in a society that used race against Black Americans for most of our history, colorblindness is a goal.
In the affirmative-action decision, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, embraced this idea of colorblindness, saying: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”
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