Last year, the US Supreme Court made an unprecedented ruling…
…they banned affirmative action at all US colleges and universities – except military academies (yes, this is a major issue – we’ll write more on this in the future)
Why bring this up now? Well, several publications have recently started releasing racial diversity data of the newest college and university classes, but the overall consensus is that it’s still too early to know the complete impact of the decision as it’s only a partial picture right now.
As this data continues to be released over the years, it’s important to note the forgotten consequence in all of this. The obvious consequences are covered in a variety of places (holding up systemic inequities against marginalized folks etc.), but what we haven’t seen talked about enough is how the false narrative we’ve heard for centuries has been and is going to continue to be re-cemented in current and future generations’ minds. This – of course – is the ongoing false narrative that many POC have only been able to attend these institutions because of a quota.
As statistics continue to be released over the years and the media continues to cover this story, this narrative will only continue to be reinforced – regardless of what the statistics show.
Because although many of us want numbers, facts, and logic to tell the story, oftentimes, it’s the story that has existed the longest that is the one that ends up being remembered.
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