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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result was a victory for activists who have been trying to do away with affirmative action for years. What led to the June 29 decision by the Trump-packed Supreme Court finally to ban race-conscious affirmative action and upend the college admissions process? In this month’s “Meet the BIPOC Press” feature with URL Media, our guests fill in the blanks in the media coverage and correct some of the misconceptions about affirmative action, systemic racism, and how we got here. This time, Laura Flanders and co-host Sara Lomax of Philadelphia’s WURD Radio are joined by Washington DC-based journalist Brandon Tensley who is the National Politics Reporter at Capital B, a nonprofit national and local newsroom reporting for Black communities across the country, and Claire Jean Kim, a political scientist and Asian American studies professor at UC Irvine in Southern California. Kim is also the author of the forthcoming book “Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World”. How will the recent Supreme Court decision affect diversity and fairness in US institutions, and what does solidarity with African Americans specifically look like in the US today?

Join us for this conversation to gain a deeper understanding of the affirmative action definition, the affirmative action debate, and the broader implications for diversity and inclusion in education after this landmark Supreme Court affirmative action ruling.

“As someone who teaches about anti-Blackness and race, I can tell you how much that impacts the classroom to not have more diversity in the classroom . . . It affects the quality of education for everybody.” - Claire Jean Kim

“We are destined to repeat horrible mistakes by pretending that race doesn't matter . . . I think we are foolish to think that this [affirmative action] decision or any of these decisions are going to move us forward.” - Sara Lomax

“One of the professors I spoke to put it very clearly when I asked him, ‘What will the higher education landscape look like post affirmative action?’ He was like, we don't need to theorize, we don't need to sort of imagine it. We can look to where this has already happened . . . “ - Brandon Tensley

00:00 The Problem
01:27 The Lawsuit
01:40 Supreme Court Decision
01:55 Media Coverage
04:46 Asian American Perspective
05:56 Moving Forward
07:55 Affirmative Action History
09:43 Effects of Banning Affirmative Action
15:58 Understanding US History
19:26 White Nationalism and Social Hierarchy

Guests:
Claire Jean Kim: Professor of Political Science & Asian American Studies, UC Irvine; Author, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Sara Lomax: Co-Founder, URL Media; President & CEO, WURD Radio
Brandon Tensley: National Politics Reporter, Capital B News

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