Commentary
There are those who are convinced that the United States is incurably racist. Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision ending once and for all the explicit consideration of race in college admissions exposed entrenched racism within this country’s society all right. But it turns out that where it is found is in an unholy alliance of the political left and corporate America.
In an amicus brief supporting Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s determination to continue their decades-long use of race as a negative, stereotypical criterion in deciding what tiny fraction of the more than 60,000 applicants, in the case of Harvard, will be awarded places in the undergraduate class, there was a telling admission from the long list of powerhouse U.S. corporations:…