Affirmative action in college admissions is about to end, and that’s a good thing

Affirmative action in college admissions is racist, ineffective, and pernicious. The Supreme Court heard a challenge to its legality this week and seems likely to strike it down as a violation of the Constitution. If this is the court’s decision next year, it would be long overdue.

Racism means prejudice and discrimination based on race. Prejudice refers to making decisions and conclusions about a person based on the person’s race and not on reason or actual experience. Identity politics runs in this vein because it groups people based on the irrelevant attribute of race and assumes that all people of one race have had the same experience.

It is racist to assume that there exists a “black perspective” or a “white perspective” or a single perspective or life experience associated with any race. Placing people in so-called affinity groups based on race is to make a predetermined judgment about that person for no reason other than the color of their skin.