The former first lady and president said the now-struck policy had “allowed generations of students … to prove we belonged.”
released a powerful statement expressing her disappointment and explaining how the now-banned admissions policies impacted her own life and the lives of those around her.
“My heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds — and what kinds of chances will be open to them,” she wrote.Obama, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School in the 1980s, said that as one of the few Black students on campus, she sometimes wondered if others thought she had benefited from affirmative action.
“But the fact is this: I belonged. And semester after semester, decade after decade, for more than half a century, countless students like me showed they belonged, too,” she wrote. She added that the diversity of experience she and other students of color brought to her cohort benefited everyone who “heard a perspective they might not have encountered.”
“It wasn’t perfect, but there’s no doubt that it helped offer new ladders of opportunity for those who, throughout our history, have too often been denied a chance to show how fast they can climb,” she wrote.
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