Duke University announced it is ending a full-ride scholarship program for Black students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…
@Phil_Lewis_ This is what Donald Trump's done for Black people.
@Phil_Lewis_ Folk don’t know the history of Duke, it’s in Durham, a community built by Black folk that’s now white washed as hell and was once a Rosewood and Aurban Ave of its time.
@Phil_Lewis_ and this will happen across america not just duke. thank trump for it ❤️
Prior to these institutions making these decisions, they may want to read the SFFA v. Harvard closer. #AffirmativeAction Second, while the original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause was to ensure that laws apply equally to everyone, regardless of race, both the Supreme Court and the nation failed to uphold this principle, most notably in Plessy v. Ferguson, which sanctioned “separate but equal” facilities. However, the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education overturned this, and the equal protection principle has since expanded to various areas of life. Any exceptions to equal protection must satisfy “strict scrutiny”; that is, the government must show that the racial classification serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Justice Lewis Powell’s opinion became the touchstone for evaluating the constitutionality of race-based admissions, reasoning that diversity in the student body could be a “compelling state interest,” but that race could only be used as a “plus” in admissions and not as a quota. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the Court adopted Powell's viewpoint, while also setting limits to ensure race-based admissions did not result in stereotyping or harm to non-minority applicants, and stating that such race-based programs should eventually come to an end. Harvard’s (and UNC’s, in the consolidated case) race-based admissions systems fail to meet the strict scrutiny, non-stereotyping, and termination criteria established by Grutter and Bakke. Specifically, the universities could not demonstrate their compelling interests in a measurable way, failed to avoid racial stereotypes, and did not offer a logical endpoint for when race-based admissions would cease. As a result, the programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, the Court noted that nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected the applicant’s life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university.
@Phil_Lewis_ Duke basketball team next year
@Phil_Lewis_ Good. I reckon most of those "black" scholarships were awarded to Africans & Caribbeans.
@Phil_Lewis_ A lot of people think that Duke University’s history began in 1924, therefore has no reason to create a full ride scholarship program for Black students…but that is NOT the truth. That scholarship is OWED to the descendants of slavery in the US Source: alumni.duke.edu/magazine/artic…
@Phil_Lewis_ The school’s current financial aid policy is free tuition to families earning $125,000 or less or $150,000 or less from the states of NC or SC So…I think they covered it