We’ve applied the cure long past that point, and have drifted toward an almost liturgical conception of diversity that makes less sense by the year. In a 2003 Supreme Court ruling, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the majority, said, ‘we expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences’ in the university admissions context ‘will no longer be necessary.’ That was considered resonantly wise at the time. But now we have only about six years to go. Folks, it’s time.”
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