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And admit and enroll working class students of all races, a disproportionate share of whom are black and hispanic. it is no accident, given our history of racial oppression in this country that black and hispanic students are disproportionately low income and have low wealth and live in high poverty neighborhoods. they would disproportionately benefit from a new system of class based affirmative action. >> im interested in those numbers that you are citing because there are, i thought, more poor...

>> richard, your thoughts on that? >> i completely agree that first generation college students deserve a break and that is part of what i have long advocated. its the fair thing to do and will disproportionately benefit black and hispanic students. on the question of gender, i think that is an interesting point. if you do class based affirmative action in a robust way and a fair way, then you should not see declines in black and hispanic representations. we know from many universities that have...

U.n.c.. thank you so much for being here, tell us your reaction to this decision. >> well, i think that this was a win for working class students and poor students, and the reason that i say that is right now the system using race in admissions tends to benefit wealthy students of all races, so at harvards 71% of the students who are black, hispanic, native american come from the top socioeconomic fifth of the population, of those populations. overall there are 15 times as many wealthy students ...

No indication of a direct threat to the obamas, and he has now been arrested. as a fugitive of justice. a spokesperson for the obamas declined to comment tonight to cnn. thank you so much for joining us, cnn tonight with alison tomorrow starts right now. >> thank you very much caitlin, good to see you. good evening everyone im alison camerota and welcome to cnn tonight on a big news night the supreme court handing down a decision thats being described as a generational shift. it will alter the w...

You cant write an essay about your lived experience, because i thtat ihat is what its abou ,the overcoming. >> i think thats the candidate i want that went through thie c this, this and this. >> and yet theyre here today. how did it shapeantheye your story? can race does shape your story? and wherur stoe live does have a bearing. so these are important bearing. n but you cant just say, okay, whats your race? all right. w you get and look at the breakdown at harvard, 55.1% of asians, these are al...

Interviewers or whoever. harvard certainly says, were not discriminating against anybody. were only giving kind of a plus to certain applicants, particularly black and hispanic. obviously, the allegation were they were discriminating, and because its a zero sum game in college admissions, if somebody gets a plus, somebody else gets a minus. yes, some asian-americans felt they were being discriminated against. the chief justice looked at the fact that harvard maintained almost identical racial br...

Board take this ruling? by the way, many expected it to go this way for quite some time now. >> it means you cant make assumptions about anybody because of their race. thats what the chief justice was stressing. he said, you cant say, well, because this applicant is black or hispanic, you can assume they carry with them certain experiences or obstacles or what have you. he called that stereotypes. he did not rule out, as you say, that if someone has been affected in their own experience by their...

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Where some of the top public universities currently are. georgia, 36% of high school seniors are georgia, but u.g.a., smaller. texas, 52% of graduating seniors are hispanic, compose just 29% of its freshman class. colorado, arizona, kansas, do slightly better. asian students do score higher and perform better academically than all students, whites to a lesser extent. california has spent $500 million on outreach and recruiting and yet even drop the standardized act and sat tests to level the pla...