saying universities that consider race in their school admissions process are not discriminating against white or Asian students.
Conservative activists have long claimed race-conscious admissions processes are illegal, but Biggs was emphatic in her support of the practice. She said universities are right to consider race “because race is so interwoven in every aspect of the lived experience of minority students.” “Nearly seventy years after the first black students were admitted to UNC, the minority students at the University still report being confronted with racial epithets, as well as feeling isolated, ostracized, stereotyped and viewed as tokens in a number of University spaces,” Biggs wrote in her decision.
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