Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is right about race and the Constitution - Vox

There's a glaring flaw in the Supreme Court lawsuits attacking affirmative action… 

The Congress that wrote the 14th Amendment, in other words, rejected the "colorblind" theory, and instead wrote a landmark civil rights statute that explicitly requires the government to consider race when deciding whether a non-white individual's rights were fully respected. And the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is only one of many such laws enacted by Reconstruction-era lawmakers...

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