June 30th 2023.
Republican Senator Tim Scott is calling for the abolishment of legacy admissions. According to The Hill, Senator Scott expressed his view on Fox News that education should be a goal of the entire community and the eradication of legacy admissions could be beneficial in achieving this goal.
He proposed that universities such as Harvard should discontinue any preferential treatment for legacy kids and their professors. His remarks were in light of the Supreme Court's decision to rule out affirmative action on June 29, 2023.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama both disagreed with the Court's decision, with Harris tweeting, "Today's Supreme Court decision is a denial of opportunity. It's not about being colorblind. It's about being blind to history, blind to empirical evidence about disparities, and blind to the strength that diversity brings to classrooms."
Obama also commented on the decision and said affirmative action helped him and his wife Michelle, noting that it "allowed generations of students like Michelle [Obama] and me to prove we belonged."
Additionally, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said legacy admissions are the equivalent of "affirmative action for the privileged" on Twitter. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in the decision was also reported on by Black Enterprise. She said, "If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. It will take longer for racism to leave us."
Senator Tim Scott's call to end legacy admissions comes on the heels of a public disagreement between himself and Obama about race in America. It'll be interesting to see what actions are taken and how they'll affect education moving forward.
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