Mona Chalabi Instagram – The Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action yesterday.
I made this illustration way back in 2017 when it became clear that Trump was trying to reverse affirmative action at universities (the work of undoing rights can take a long time and shit, we need to take those early threats seriously).
I wanted to ignore the opinion polling and look at the *impact* of affirmative action. Several states have banned these programs in the past. This happened in California in 1998 and when it did, Black and Hispanic enrollment at Berkeley College fell from 24% to just 13%. Since then, the gap between a fair world and the real one has just got wider. Over half of college-age Californians are Black or Hispanic but only 15% make it to Berkeley.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, US Census Bureau | Posted on 30/Jun/2023 22:59:01