and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
concept of separate but equal. black students were told, yeah, you can have a school, but it s going to be a sck with old useless text books which is only open when it isn t planting season and that didn t end officially until brown v. board of education in 1954. then in the 1960s, white segregationist mobs rioted when the black students had the temerity to try to attend schools like the university of mississippi. and who could porget governor george wallace physically blocking the doors to the university of alabama? apparently, at least six members of the court have forgotten, the current court, anyway. it s only really been since the 1960s that we have had any real promise of racial equality and education or any promise of fairness in society. and that was thanks to chief justice earl warren s supreme court in the 1950s and 60s, which revolutionized america, dramatically expanding civil rights and civil liberties for all americans.