Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas.said he wanted the court to, “hold that a State’s use of race in higher education admissions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause.” Affirmative action is like those used to support segregation, calling them, quote, “virtually identical.” “The use of race has little to do with the alleged educational benefits of diversity,” and said, quote, “Slaveholders argued that slavery was a ‘positive good’ that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life.”