The Supreme Court's two Black justices found themselves on opposite sides of the court's opinion in two high-stakes affirmative action cases.
, sparred over the court's decision in a pair of high-stakes affirmative action cases that will likely change the educational landscape for students from racial minority backgrounds across the nation.
"As she sees things, we are all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society, with the original sin of slavery and the historical subjugation of black Americans still determining our lives today," Thomas wrote.The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action policies at colleges in the U.S.
, but each time, the Supreme Court allowed those policies to continue, determining that colleges have an interest in promoting diversity on campuses.
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