Affirmative Action and the 14th Amendment
Live at the National Constitution Center
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The Colorblindness of Race Discrimination
The 14th Amendment was addressing the fact that everyone had considered this group of people to be inferior. And just by saying that, okay, we're going to change the law, those systems of inferiority continue to persist. It's actually, in many ways, kind of cementing and sustaining pre-existing inequalities. To say that all problems of race discrimination have been solved is really ignoring the realities on a daily basis.
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