Affirmative Action died this week. Maybe this moment is necessary. | Opinion

that our brief experiment with the redress of deeply entrenched racial inequality was over. To be clear, the holistic use of race as one factor of many in college admissions was hardly the sea change that would make Black America whole, but it was a step.

The feeling of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has been compounded with a racial reckoning that this generation had not lived through, on top of the world feeling like it’s on the verge of collapse as we return to a version of the Cold War. There’s just the feeling that we had a sense of normal, I will note pre-2016 in terms of our expectations of the government, in terms of our expectations of the national discourse, that just doesn’t exist anymore.

But I am uncomfortable. People behind mikes are loud and trolls didn’t exist before in the way that we experience them today, but perspective matters in being able to see progress. Once we have perspective, we can be more grounded, reflective and introspective. While the Supreme Court’s decision requires race-neutral consideration in college admissions, the factors shaping the composition of college admission pools are anything but race-neutral.

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