SCOTUS Tackles Affirmative Action, Again (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The U.S. Supreme Court is back in the middle of affirmative action. It’s the University of Texas case again. White Abigail Fisher says she was cut off from admission by policies that consider race. And not, she says, in her favor. Oral argument was testy yesterday. Justice Scalia saying straight up that some black students might be better off at “slower track” schools. Nobody likes that affirmative action was needed. Is it needed now? Is there a better way, in this year of racial tension on American college campuses? This hour On Point, race, America, and affirmative action before the high court. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/12/10/supreme-court-affirmative-action