Affirmative action and its personal impact

The overturning of affirmative action by the Supreme Court left many people, including Mary Tobin, reeling. As a black woman and proud graduate of West Point, Mary experienced the stereotype that black students only got in due to affirmative action. This decision was especially hard for her, as her mother was a civil rights activist and attended Vanderbilt University as one of the first black students. Mary saw this as a setback to the progress her mother fought for and questioned the purpose of her service to a country that only saw her as a beneficiary of affirmative action.