Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness

Asian Americans must reckon with the fact that this latest blow of injustice was made in our name. Again.

The recent SCOTUS decisions to eliminate affirmative action in college admissions in favor of a so-called “colorblind” approach was hardly surprising. The right-wing majority has long promoted the lie that affirmative action discounts a person’s skills and potential and focuses only on racial identity as the deciding factor in college admissions. In rea…