Moody: ‘The ability to overcome adversity’ should be considered for ‘all skin colors’

The court ruled 6-2 Friday in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had to recuse herself due to her participation on Harvard's board. Moody's state of Florida engages in colorblind admissions, which means Affirmative Action did not apply to its schools.Moody reacted to dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opinion which read that the decision reflected:"what race in America should be like, but is not.

"In fact justices came out and said: 'When we are judging people let's look at the experiences they have gone through. How have they shown and demonstrated courage, determination, the ability to overcome adversity?'" Moody said."Look at the hardships people have overcome that can be considered and that can be applied to people of all skin colors."

"I think that this is a decision that will move our universities in a direction of judging people by the merits," Moody went on to say.Gov. Ron DeSantis similarly celebrated the decision, despite being a Harvard alumnus himself. The governor was excited to see a shift to judging students by their merits.

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