Jackson, J., dissenting
The Court has come to rest on the bottom-line conclusion that racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans and other underrepresented minorities for success in the bunker, not the boardroom (a particularly awkward place to land, in light of the history the majority opts to ignore).[1] It would be deeply unfortunate if the Equal Protection Clause actually demanded this perverse, ahistorical, and counterproductive outcome. To impose this result in that Clause’s name when it requires no such thing, and to thereby obstruct our collective progress toward the full realization of the Clause’s promise, is truly a tragedy for us all.
- ↑ Compare ante, at 22, n. 4, with ante, at 22–30, and supra, at 3–4, and nn. 2–3.
potential consequences of the [majority’s] approach, as measured against the Constitution’s objectives … provides further reason to believe that the [majority’s] approach is legally unsound.” Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551 U. S. 701, 858 (2007) (Breyer, J., dissenting). I fear that the Court’s folly brings our Nation to the brink of coming “full circle” once again. Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265, 402 (1978) (opinion of Marshall, J.).
