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Civil rights cases in over 20 years. >> one landmark supreme court ruling still stands as the benchmark for minority college admissions. but it came over 40 years ago. and it involved a white man. allan bakke sued the medical school of university of california davis for reverse discrimination. the university had a quota. it reserved 16 spots for minority students. bakke argued he was more academically qualified than the students who filled the quota. the court ruled in his favor in 1978. racial quotas were deemed illegal. >> allan paul bakke. >> they said once again that white rights are supre...

Sense that it is a pattern that i see particularly among conservatives. particularly among white conservatives to try to co-op the language of white supremacists terror against black bodies. and to neuter it or purchase the way into oppression without ever being oppressed. or purchase their way into the effects of terror without being terrorized and take the language and say it can be applied to anybody. it's actually very specific. so stop saying i was lynched. stop saying you vote democratically you're on a plantation. stop saying this feels like slavery. or reverse discrimination. whenever ...

>> to understand just how politically charged the issue is -- >> we won't go to the back of the line! >> -- consider this. >> one of the most important civil rights cases in over 20 years. >> one landmark supreme court ruling still stands as the benchmark for minority college admissions. but it came over 40 years ago. and it involved a white man. allan bakke sued the medical school of university of california at davis for reverse discrimination. the university had a quota. it reserved 16 spots for minority students. bakke argued he was academically more qualified than the students who filled t...

California davis for reverse discrimination. the university had a quota. it reserved 16 spots for minority students. boki argued he was more academically qualified than the students who filled the quota. the court ruled in his favor in 1978. racial quotas were deemed illegal. >> alan paul boki. >> they said once again that white rights are supreme in this country. >> but affirmative action wasn't dead. the court also said that race could be considered in admissions but only as one of many factors. and now, another legal battle threatening to end affirmative action once and for all. this time t...

America to hate again. if we're honest, your african-american outreach has always been about reaching out to white voter conservatives already dismissive of racial sensitivity, except for their boogeyman of reverse discrimination. whoever takes you on next year, she or he will have done the work of listening to actual voters, not performers of color. millions of them, black as they may be, mr. president, diamond and silk, kanye, don't count towards that. towards that this is the ocean.