Assignment task:
Nathan Glazer, the author of the article and book Affirmative Discrimination, deals with affirmative action in employment and two other kinds of governmentally or judicially imposed 'affirmative action' or what he terms the equalization of the racial proportions in public schools and the integration of residential neighborhoods. He notes that such racial preference required by the government is against the spirit of the Constitution, the clear language of the civil rights act and the interests of all of us in the United States in achieving an integrated and just society (Mello, p. 310).
On April 22, 2014, The Supreme Court of the United States, upheld a state electorate's right to ban the use of race in public university admissions, a decision that rekindles the debate over affirmative action. The justices, in a 6-2 ruling, said they had no authority to strike down a Michigan law that allowed voters to decide in 2006 that race-based preferences should play no role in public education, hiring and contracting. Arizona, California, Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington have laws similar to Michigan's. The ruling neither imperiled nor condoned the use of race-based preferences in these states, but it signaled that the high court would not stand in the way.
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Drawing on the cases and statistics provided in the Reading 7.1, Chapter 7 material, and the Supreme Court's (SCOTUS) ruling of April 2014, what do you think the future holds for Affirmative Action?