Point Austin: Justice Demands Affirmative Action

Point Austin
The Austin Chronicle

By Michael King, Fri., Aug. 17, 2012

"The road is long, but it really hasn't been that long."
– From the amicus brief of the family of Heman Sweatt, first black student admitted to the UT School of Law in 1950
It's almost comical that, in a state where those residents defined as "minorities" are now in fact the majority, the state university should have to defend at the U.S. Supreme Court an admissions system designed to better reflect the actual diversity of the state's citizens. I say "almost," since the consequences in the real lives of Texans – of higher education denied – are often severe and multigenerational. But that's the continuing predicament we're in, as once again the court will have to decide whether to permit the university's extremely limited acknowledgment of our complicated racial history as one factor in admissions.

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