Michelle Obama, Whoopi Goldberg, & More Call Out SCOTUS Overturning Affirmative Action

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama and galore different stars were angered pursuing the Supreme Court’s determination to regularisation affirmative enactment unconstitutional connected Thursday, June 29. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the court’s opinion, which overturned the precedent that allowed colleges and universities to see contention erstwhile deciding admissions. “Both [Harvard and UNC’s admissions] programs deficiency sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the usage of race, unavoidably employment contention successful a antagonistic manner, impact radical stereotyping, and deficiency meaningful extremity points. We person ne'er permitted admissions programs to enactment successful that way, and we volition not bash truthful today,” helium wrote, per CNN. 

Both Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson penned dissenting opinions. Jackson expressed however she felt that the court’s determination didn’t bash the due enactment to lick the issue. “The champion that tin beryllium said of the majority’s position is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the anticipation that preventing information of contention volition extremity racism,” she wrote, per The Hill. “If the colleges of this state are required to disregard a happening that matters, it volition not conscionable spell away. It volition take longer for racism to permission us.”

Tons of stars took to societal media to amusement their disapproval of the Supreme Court’s decision. See reactions from Obama, Whoopi Goldberg, and much here.

Michelle Obama

I wanted to stock immoderate of my thoughts connected today's Supreme Court determination connected affirmative action: pic.twitter.com/Wa6TGafzHV

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 29, 2023

Former First Lady Michelle Obama released a lengthy statement, sharing her acquisition arsenic a assemblage student, and her fears astir wondering whether she “belonged” successful her school. “Back successful college, I was 1 of the fewer Black students connected my campus, and I was arrogant of getting into specified a respected school. I knew I’d worked hard for it. But still, I sometimes wondered if radical thought that I got determination due to the fact that of affirmative action,” she wrote. “But the information is: I belonged.”

Obama continued and said that determination are “countless” students who felt similar her, and she pointed retired however determination are tons of students who person peculiar information too conscionable race. “So often, we conscionable judge that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, portion kids increasing up similar I did are expected to vie erstwhile the crushed is thing but level,” she wrote.

She concluded by saying that determination was inactive truthful overmuch enactment to beryllium done to assistance young radical who whitethorn beryllium disquieted astir their aboriginal and imaginable higher acquisition aft the SCOTUS decision. “Today is simply a reminder that we’ve got to bash the enactment not conscionable to enact policies that bespeak our values of equity and fairness, but to genuinely marque those values existent successful each of our schools and workplaces, and neighborhoods,” she said, earlier listing a fig of charities to help.

Whoopi Goldberg

#WhoopiGoldberg: "If everyone was really treated equally, we wouldn't person had to enactment successful affirmative action." https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/QYuBQC46Qq

— The View (@TheView) June 29, 2023

Shortly aft the quality broke, Whoopi Goldberg called retired the tribunal astatine the commencement of The View. “The 14th Amendment is expected to committedness adjacent protection, but if everyone was really treated equally, we wouldn’t person had to enactment successful affirmative action. Wouldn’t person had to bash it!” she said. “People wouldn’t person had to march and beg and got hosed and each of these things that radical did to conscionable equilibrium america retired with everything other going connected successful the country.”

Sunny Hostin

The View co-hosts besides asked if determination would beryllium much efforts to reason bequest admissions to colleges and universities. Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah-Griffin also noted however the sentiment didn’t halt colleges from considering however contention affected antithetic applicants’ lives. Sunny showed statement with the dissenting opinions that ignoring contention volition not marque the occupation spell away.”Pretending that it is nary longer an contented exacerbates the problem,” she said on The View. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If SCOTUS was superior astir their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would person abolished bequest admissions, aka affirmative enactment for the privileged.

70% of Harvard’s bequest applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t interaction that – which would person impacted them and their patrons.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 29, 2023

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also released a statement, calling retired the Supreme Court for not doing distant with bequest admissions. If SCOTUS was superior astir their ludicrous ‘colorblindness’ claims, they would person abolished bequest admissions, aka affirmative enactment for the privileged,”  she tweeted. “70% of Harvard’s bequest applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t interaction that – which would person impacted them and their patrons.”

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