Are You Taking a Contrarian View of Race in Affirmative Action?

Jeanie Thomas: The real racial injustice here is not limiting affirmative action, but actually continuing it and using these Black and Brown students as sort of pawns for this larger diversity rationale that really accrues to the benefits of white. "I have no problem pushing back on that narrative that we are somehow being exploited by given the opportunity to get our higher education at some of the best universities in this country," she says.