On Wednesday in the nation’s capital, officials at all levels were busily working on official papers that would have a lot to do with Jaylin Osborne’s hopes and dreams for a bright future in college and beyond.
Jaylin, after all, was the sort of slim 15-year-old who was known not only for looking good in dreadlocks but also for helping his eighth-grade classmates. He had every reason to dream big. “Bright student … a hard-working, curious scholar … a leader among his classmates,” was how he was being praised by the head of his charter school, just 11 blocks east of the U.S. Supreme Court building.
Now, the Supreme Court’s justices were preparing to announce the next morning, that the court’s conservative majority had just decided, 6-3, that America’s hopeful, dreaming Black students just don’t need the help of “affirmative action” programs any more to get into colleges and universities. America 2023 has moved beyond a need for racially incentivized efforts. Start spreading the news.
