Posted on 06/22/2014 12:09:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Defends Affirmative Action
BY ROBERT BARNES June 22 Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she supports affirmative action in higher education because she believes that alternatives based on geographic or economic status don’t work to ensure a diverse student body.
Sotomayor has said race-conscious programs in the 1970s that opened Ivy League schools to minorities were essential to her rise from the Bronx public housing projects to her admission to Princeton and Yale Law School, where she excelled.
Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina, was asked by George Stephanopoulos in a segment taped for ABC’s “This Week” about programs that might increase diversity in higher education that would be “less fractious” than the use of race.
She said that other programs have not proved as successful in diversifying student bodies and that universities should be able to consider race and not just academic measurements.
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Race counts!
Race is the ONLY THING that does!
Now STFU!!!!
A racist supports racism.
What a surprise.
It's what the Constitution SAYS.
Which is why this little commie troll is UNQUALIFIED to be on the SCOTUS
The wide Latina would be thanklessly disloyal if she didn’t defend affirmative action, just as others would be thanklessly disloyal if they didn’t defend a meritocracy.
Why do we need to ensure a ‘diverse’ student body?
How appropriate as a product of affirmative action herself.
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