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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2024 · 51 MIN

Are you sure you get how the Supreme Court ban on affirmative action could change America?

from TWO REPORTERS · host David K. Shipler & Daniel Zwerdling

Lee Bollinger, who was president of Columbia University and the University of Michigan, predicts that the number of black students at many colleges will plummet to low levels they haven't seen since the 60s and 70s. He says Chief Justice John Roberts and the other Republican extremists on the Court misinterpret the Constitution. And as for the belief that under affirmative action, college officials generally admitted blacks who weren't qualified? Lee says: Not true. 

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