(3 min watch): The "Colorblindness' Trap: How a civil rights ideal got hijacked (March 2024)

The New York Times (2024)

Nikole Hannah Jones summarizes her take aways on the state of affirmative action in this 3 minute video. Her final point on the original conception of postive action as remedial to enslavement of the black race is critical to understanding the incomplete and arguably incoherent path of precedent in these cases. I strongly recommend her full article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine as essential reading for understanding the fuller picture of affirmative action law in the US: That is available here.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/magazine/100000009357936/nikole-hannah-jones-on-her-essay.html

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