The U.S. Supreme Court got something right about affirmative action
In the 1920s, McGill University adopted a race-based affirmative-action program. The administration aimed to fix what it identified as a growing imbalance in the student body. The problem: Applicants from one racial group were being admitted in a proportion below their share of the population, while students from another group were being admitted at a rate above their population.
The racial group this affirmative-action program was designed to help were white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The group the program targeted were Jews.now declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court Affirmative action at U.S. universities was born as a response to three centuries of legal, widespread, state-imposed discrimination against Black Americans. That history is impossible to deny or ignore.
Race-based affirmative action in American higher education has changed and expanded since the 1960s. Programs to up Black enrolment became diversity programs, aimed at making the student body look more like the country, in a country that – just like Canada – has become increasingly multiracial through immigration.
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