Does America Need Affirmative Action?

Join ISI at the University of Alabama Student Center Auditorium as we ask these timely questions.
Randall Kennedy vs Jason Riley moderated by Christine Emba
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admission vs. Harvard overturned affirmative action in college admissions. Though affirmative action has long been unpopular with the American public, the policy, which is designed to improve minority admission rates to colleges and universities, strikes at a bedrock principle of American politics since the civil rights revolution: diversity. The majority opinion in Students for Fair Admission ended affirmative action, but did not prohibit considering race or other features of diversity as part of universities’ admission policies; thus, the question of diversity and merit is still in play. How important is diversity in college admissions? What criteria are appropriate and fair for deciding who attends which college? What is the remedy for past discrimination? What does racial justice look like?

[@OcularOracle]

I appreciate the upload of this debate. However, it deserves higher quality of audio to go with it.

[@stevebeiner9521]

How long does it go until it reveres its purpose to help those whom are presently accused ?

[@mikekimveteran]

Jason Riley chose poor stats. He needed to divide up Blacks in regions. A Black male veteran of WW 2 living in Detroit in 1950 had a whole different reality to his counterpart in Georgia. The One living in the Northeast had many more opportunities. You cannot bunch up the stats Jason.
The collective shows prosperity in all Americans after WW2 but mostly White Males in most areas and Black male Veterans in the Northeast and Northwest. Blacks used GI Bill for college and voc training. The argument that Welfare ruined Black families is off.Jason misses that the fewer Blacks around 1960 or 1970 who were ahead had used GI Bill. I spoke to many Black men of this period. They were not from the South. They got government jobs or went into trades within their communities. Huge problem. Corporations killed White and Black labor force from 66 to 71 with companies going overseas. So he is off. Plus the military was counted as employment and military wages serving in Vietnam or in CONUS which brought more money home than sharecropping. This added to the collective that Jason spoke about padding his stats