What the Supreme Court’s Admissions Decision Says About Democracy Terri Taylor, Diverse Issues in Higher Education Race-conscious admissions practices justified by a diversity interest were never a strong enough foundation for building the kind of multi-racial democracy that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of, writes Lumina Foundation's Terri Taylor in this opinion piece.
We should be spending more time doing the hard, necessary work of creating the country not yet seen. By letting go of outdated structures, listening to each other, and learning to live in the tension and beauty of difference, perhaps we can work together to create it, she says. |