ESPN host Stephen A. Smith shares his thoughts on the Supreme Court ending affirmative action in college admissions and why the policy was implemented in the first place on 'Fox News Tonight.'
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith gives his take on the significance of the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions on 'Fox News Tonight.'
"It wasn't about giving them an advantage. It was about highlighting the fact that they were discriminated [against], meaning we were discriminated against at that particular moment in time. And that's why the policy was instituted to begin with," Smith argued. "The polarizing, stigmatizing and unfair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a student’s race and ethnicity as a factor to admit or reject them has been overruled. These discriminatory admission practices undermined the integrity of our country’s civil rights laws," a press release from the organization read in part. Smith explained that affirmative action was implemented in the first place because African Americans were being"shortchanged.
"No," Smith responded."You didn't hear me speak against, you know, anyone from the Asian community that brought that case to the justices. I understood where they were coming from. My argument was against folks in White America that would say even, you know, presidential candidate Donald Trump talking about now we get back to a merit, you know, a society based on merit, ignoring what brought affirmative action policies into play to begin with," he explained.
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