The US Supreme Court on Thursday banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities.
"The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual -- not on the basis of race," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
But deciding primarily based on whether the applicant is white, Black or other is itself racial discrimination, Roberts wrote.The court sided with an activist group, Students for Fair Admissions, that sued the oldest private and public institutions of higher education in the country -- elite Harvard University and the University of North Carolina -- over their admissions policies.
Such affirmative action policies arose from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s aiming to help address the legacy of discrimination in higher education against African Americans. But the ruling was a major setback to progressives, one year after the court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision guaranteeing a woman's right to abortion.
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