The Supreme Court 6-3 decision made affirmative action policy unlawful for colleges nationwide to take race into consideration as a specific factor in college admissions. The purpose of affirmative action was to create diversity in predominate white colleges for disenfranchise African-American students and people of color.
Ironically, Clarence Thomas, African-American male justice, was the beneficiary of affirmative action policy that allowed this aspiring young African-American law student to be admitted to Yale University Law School, and later became one of the conservative justices that voted against affirmative action policy.
In Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas majority opinion wrote: “sees the universities' admissions policies for what they are: rudderless, race-based preferences. ... Those policies fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution."
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's first African-American female justice, wrote a profound judicial rebuttal: "With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life."
“I think the Supreme Court (6-3) decision was wrong and it misunderstood some of the most important features of our country, that our diversity is a great strength,” said Senior Biden Administration official. “But the most important thing we can do is not let that decision be the last word.”
The Supreme Court 6-3 majority decision to eliminate affirmative action policy in college admissions sends an adverse message to African-American students and people of color that diversity in predominate white majority schools will no longer be tolerated. This Supreme Court 6-3 majority decision by the ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justices may be a victory against affirmative action but will become an abject failure in America to create a colorblind society.