During an appearance on MSNBC, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by the host about how the White House will handle future debate regarding affirmative action now that the Supreme Court has banned it in America’s colleges and universities.
She responded with this: "We’re going to say, ’this [decision] is wrong.’ It is unprecedented... taking away important constitutional rights that have been in place for a long time."
Unfortunately for the White House, though, it is they who are wrong. In fact, a new poll makes that clear.
Over the weekend, The Economist / YouGov released a poll showing 59% of adult Americans approve of the Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions. Just 27% disapproved.
More surprising to people like Ms. Jean-Pierre is this: black and Hispanic Americans largely support the Supreme Court’s decision too. In fact, black folks approved by a margin of 46% to 36%. Moreover, only 11% of black Americans said they had been positively impacted by affirmative action policies.
Additionally, Hispanic Americans felt much the same. Only 7% said they were positively impacted by these race-based policies.
In other words, only the most radical members of American society support affirmative action. And now we have the data to back that up.
But like any radical political movement, the American Left won’t abandon their embrace of affirmative action and skin-color quotas. It’s simply too important to them, too central to their political ideology.