It’s not the first time the Supreme Court has dropped a bombshell. Not even the first time in the past year.
But Thursday’s judgement on affirmative action is a bombshell for sure.
One that is set to detonate under this nation’s educational establishment. About time, too.
The case goes back almost a decade to the moment in 2014 when a group of Asian American students began a lawsuit against Harvard University.
The students had been rejected by the university, despite having the best possible qualifications.
What is more, the complainants noted that the number of Asian Americans at Harvard was similar each year, despite the number of Asian Americans increasing.
In other words, it looked suspiciously like the university had a quota system in place.
Harvard of course did everything they could to deny these claims. Unfortunately they were claims that everybody could see were true.
Harvard — like most other educational institutions in this country — was desperately trying to increase quotas of certain students, notably black Americans.
In doing so inevitably they were having to discriminate against students who were over-performing. And while other groups over-perform too, the case of Asian Americans and Harvard was so clear as to be almost undeniable.