A Path to Resegregation
By urging the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw affirmative action, the Bush administration is playing a front line role in the assault on integration in education. Without active "race-conscious" measures the University of Michigan, its law school and selective higher education across the country will be resegregated. The University of Michigan Law School, for example, is projecting a 73 percent drop in black student enrollment if its affirmative action program is eliminated. Separate and unequal educational opportunity based on race will define education from kindergarten through graduate and professional schools. Without active integrationist measures like affirmative action, Brown v. Board of Education, for all practical purposes, will be dead.