“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest” of diversity in the student bodies of universities. So wrote Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2003, 18 years ago, as the Supreme Court upheld the idea that such diversity is a legitimate interest but looked askance at racial preferences as a temporarily necessary evil.
O'Connor probably never anticipated that top schools such as Yale and Harvard would begin to discriminate actively against some racial minorities in the name of so-called social justice. Yet that is exactly what they are doing, supposedly so that they can get more of the “right” minority populations enrolled. Their rationalization of racism doesn’t make their actions any less racist.
