admissions. it is a complete misnomer to suggest this is about color brined blind when in fact it is about being blind to history. tonight, the ruling, the powerful descent, and how clarence thomas finally won his long battle against affirmative action. n hi long did you give your degree back again? yale does not recognize me. [laughter] as the special counsel ramps up on the january 6th investigation that is what jack smith is going in for, absolutely, this is it, this is the big show. what we are learning today about new subpoenas in the documents case. i get everything right and they indicted me. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today in a landmark ruling that overturns decades of precedents, sweeping aside generations of arguments about racial justice and equality, the supreme court in a 6 to 3 decision, six conservatives to three liberals, effectively got rid of the use of race in college admissions a
investigation that is what jack smith is going in for, absolutely, this is it, this is the big show. what we are learning today about new subpoenas in the documents case. i get everything right and they indicted me. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today in a landmark ruling that overturns decades of precedent, sweeping aside generations of arguments about racial justice and equality, the supreme court in a 6 to 3 decision, six conservatives to three liberals, effectively got rid of the use of race in college admissions at all, even for the purposes of increasing diversity. in the wake of the decisions, many colleges and universities immediately sent letters to students and alumni outlining how they are going to operate going forward. one such school was the college of the holy cross in massachusetts, which is notable, because that is the alma mater of justice clarence thomas, whose decades long project to destroy
we are gonna take a very qualified person who we would never know existed and put them in harvard. that s how i got there. that s how ketanji got their. that s how justice jackson got there. that s how cohen s tom scott there. but the minute i arrived from my majority black little town, montebello, in denver to harvard, the first week or two that i was in class, my presence was questioned by white people. i was in this big conference class where white students stood up and said, those black students, they are only here because affirmative action. it became a huge argument that we all ended up having. this was freshman year. i never had my academic with entrails question. i never had anyone question whether i was intelligent until i got to harvard. and it was a defining point of my experience there. it was one of the many reasons i was miserable there in my freshman year. you feel completely out of place and people keep telling you you should not be here. and yet, so many people i went
my majority black little town, montebello, in denver to harvard, the first week or two that i was in class, my presence was questioned by white people. i was in this big conference class where white students stood up and said, those black students, they are only here because affirmative action. it became a huge argument that we all ended up having. this was freshman year. i never had my academic with entrails question. i never had anyone question whether i was intelligent until i got to harvard. and it was a defining point of my experience there. it was one of the many reasons i was miserable there in my freshman year. you feel completely out of