The End of Affirmative Action
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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The Importance of Justice Jackson's Dissent
Mark Whitaker: Justice Jackson's dissent is a masterclass on the ways in which redlining and sharecropping and credit creates these gaps in possibility in achievement. He says that anybody who thinks that history stops on whatever the date is that the toaster popped for John Roberts "is not in fact when history stopped" Whitehead: The people who wrote the 14th Amendment understood that race conscious measures would be necessary to ensure black Americans could finally achieve equal citizenship.
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