The fourteenth amendment to the constitution guarantees equal rights to all people regardless of things such as our gender, religion, age, or race; how, then, is it lawful for colleges to determine who may attend their school based on skin color? Shouldn’t college admissions depend on grades and intelligence and shouldn’t race be irrelevant? Evidently the Supreme Court doesn’t think so.

The Supreme Court has egregiously upheld affirmative action stating that “diversity is a compelling interest in higher education, and that race is one of a number of factors that can be taken into account to achieve the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.” (Chronology of) So basically they’re saying that the only way to get minorities into college is to give them an advantage. Do

September 2003. http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/faqs/chronology.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/01/scotus.affirmative.action/

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