US top court strikes down race-based admissions: Kamala Harris calls it "denial of opportunity" - Punjabi News

Published on: 30 Jun 2023 at 09:50 AM

US top court strikes down race-based admissions: Kamala Harris calls it “denial of opportunity”

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The Fact News Service

Washington DC, June 30

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday (US local time) said the US Supreme Court’s decision to end “affirmative action” in college admissions is “a denial of opportunity”.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-based admissions at the University of Harvard and the University of North Carolina. “The highest court in our land just made a decision today on affirmative action and I feel compelled to speak about it. It is in so very many ways a denial of opportunity,” the US Vice President said.

Harris further added that it is a complete misnomer that this is about being colour-blind. “It is being blind to history, blind to empirical evidence about disparities, and blind to the strength that diversity brings to classrooms, to boardrooms,” she said.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-based admission at the University of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, The Washington Post reported.