Welcome back now to another
major decision from the Supreme
Court in just the last 24 hours.
It says race cannot be a determg
factor in college admissions.
That case comes from a challengo
admissions policies at Harvard and the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The six conservative justices
ruled affirmative action
violates the 14th Amendment.
UC Davis Chancellor Gary May says the
decision will lessen opportunits
for underrepresented students.
With affirmative action
ending in college admissions,
there's a growing fear in communities
nationwide that there will be ls
opportunities for students of c,
especially as some of the most
selective colleges and universi.
And here's the deal,
Colleges started considering an
applicant's race back in the 19.
ABC 10s Candace Reds
explains why. New at six.
The way that this world is head,
I'm very weary before my son.
Sade Daniels, who lives in Sacramento,
says she wants the best in her e
for herself and her three-year
old child. It really just feels
like taking like large, huge steps backward.
Daniels grew up in Oakland and
says she's faced hardships.
I was raised in foster care,
in fact. So was my mother.
I didn't feel good being black.
The social workers are white,
judges, white,
like everybody that's in your l,
these paid professionals who
kind of make decisions for you,
So many of them did not look like you,
despite childhood challenges, she says.
She persevered by focusing on education.
And I'm about to find that HBA
historically black college thatI
can learn and embrace my culturn
a way that I wasn't able to as a
dependent of the child welfare system.
Daniels earned a bachelor's
from Philander Smith College in
Little Rock, AR in 2012. She.
She went on to earn a master's
from UC Berkeley in 2017.
Now she's applying for doctorate
of social work programs at colls
and universities nationwide.
But she's concerned.
I'm very worried that without
protections to check these institutions.
Then we are going to see larger gaps of
who actually gets into these programs.
the US Supreme Court ended affirmative
action at colleges on Thursday.
That means race is no longer a factor
that can be intentionally consid
in the college admissions proce.
And and not to say that I feel I
staunchly need affirmative actin
to get into a graduate program,
but it is to say that historicay
these schools have been incrediy
discriminatory towards people like me.
So I feel like affirmative action was,
if anything, a safety net to ensure that
I am at the very least seen in .
It's not going to do much,
but but continue to separate
those who have the resources,
who have the networks,
who have the connections,
who have the legacies to get into the
university from those that do n.
Dr. Christopher Tyler with Sacramento
State explains that affirmative
action is policy that emerged
during the civil rights era,
really starting to the late 196s
following the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
That intended to sort of level
the playing field and increase
admissions and opportunities for
students of color and at that t,
particularly African American students
when it came to higher educatio,
Tyler says. Other students benet
from affirmative action too, lie
first generation students, students that
come from lower economic standi,
working class backgrounds. And
it was disappointing but not surprising
to hear of the outcome of the decision
of the Supreme Court. Dr. Art
Pimentel is the president.
Of Folsom Lake College.
While growing up in Woodland,
he says educational programs and
services helped him tremendouslI
went through the college
assistant migrant program
Pimentel earned a bachelor's and
master's from Sacramento State a
doctorate in education from UC Davis. And
then there's the Educational
opportunity program as well.
That also kind of helps
support a lot of the goal,
the educational goals that I ha,
he says. He remembers when
voters in California banned
affirmative action in 1996.
You saw less diverse.
I think it behooves all of us to
make sure that we are addressing
the root causes of why there are
disparities in in higher educat.
Affirmative action isn't about giving
privilege to some and not other.
It's right. It's writing a historical wrong.
Our coverage is just getting started.
We'll have more on the Supreme t
decisions tonight at 11 on LNT.