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Assumed it wasn't enough for texas to admit the top 10% of every graduating class and get diversity. that's part of texas' plan. the supreme court said you need to, texas, justify to us why it is you have to explicitly take race into account and they punted down the road to another day the final ultimate question of will they eliminate affirmative action. >> it was interesting because of this case some questioned whether abigail fisher was suitable plaintiff on this and there's been curious questions about standing before the supreme court because as noted on sko tus blog, fisher wouldn't have...

March on washington, martin luther king and all of us announced it, and the concern of the civil rights community is that this court must affirm that race is a factor we have to deal with in our lifetime. we are not in a position where things are beyond race and that we are in an after or post-racial generation and for the court to duck this issue certainly is not what we wanted. it is better than saying no but it's much less than affirmation. >> as i was talking about with chairman emeritus bond, the latest poll, said affirmative action plans are at an all-time low, 45% believing these progra...

Abigail fisher and her case had the standing to be before them but they've sent it back? >> the universities have options. other things they could do but they won't create the diverse student body they want to create. there is no alternative to some kind of race test in affirmative angion. if you want to get beyond race as someone once said you have to get to race. if you want a diverse student body around the country you have to have some kind of race-based formula. doesn't mean race is the only thing you put in the formula to decide who's getting into college and who's not, but race has to b...

Zimmerman to the sanford, florida, police department. it shows zimmerman called the police seven times since august, five times about suspicious young men in the area. but those calls were made to a nonemergency line, not to 911 as previously reported. the recordings also show zimmerman never brought up race until asked by the dispatcher. >> is he white, black or hispanic? >> black. >> mr. zimmerman, can you describe the two individuals? >> two african-american males. >> certainly doesn't mean race was not involved in the shooting of trayvon martin. but this could help his case. although zimme...

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