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How Clarence Thomas Came to Reject Affirmative Action

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The View on Race in College Admissions

Race is viewed as too broad of a brush to paint people with according to the speaker./nThe speaker agrees that students who've overcome adversity should be given an advantage, but not based on race./nThe speaker suggests that Thomas assumes schools only evaluate students based on race, but that is not the case./nJustice Sotomayor and Jackson argue that schools consider a wide range of criteria in their admissions decisions./nUNC, one of the schools in this case, uses a list of 40 criteria to evaluate students./nThe liberal justice's perspective is that race is an important aspect of someone's history and should be considered alongside other factors.

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