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You are suffering from the same optimistic delusion that the Supreme Court suffered from in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003):

> In her majority opinion, O'Connor wrote that "race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time," adding that the "Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

AA will not permit anyone to escape intergenerational poverty. By the numbers, it hasn't done anything to combat it.



So, even if it did work, the SC expected it to be dropped by 2028?

"But it doesn't work, so we should keep doing it forever!" seems to be the colleges' position.




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