Entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks on the Supreme Court rolling back affirmative action at U.S. colleges and universities.
5:44ABC Newsat U.S. colleges and universities, ruling they can no longer take race into consideration when admitting new students.
LINSEY DAVIS: All right. So I want to start out with something that you posted on Twitter saying, “Affirmative action is the single greatest form of institutional racism in America today.” Why do you feel that way? DAVIS: So I want to just throw some numbers out there, right? The University of California system banned the use of race in admissions in 1996. In 1996, 7% of the students there were Black. Today, that number is 2%. If you look at University of Michigan, before they passed similar laws in 2006, Black enrollment was 7%. By 2021, it was just 4%. So we see clearly what happens. There's a downward trend when it comes to diversity.
RAMASWAMY: So the reality is – and by the way, I went to public schools through eighth grade, it was racially diverse, majority black or something close to it. There wasn't a single one of those Black kids that could not have achieved everything that I have in my life – I've lived the American dream, I'm now running for U.S. president – if they had also been given the same privilege that I had, which was two parents in the house and a focus on education.
And it is striking to me that the very opponents of this ruling today, the very proponents of affirmative action, are also some of the most rabid opponents of school choice. That's bad for teachers unions, yes, but it is good for Americans, including those who grew up in impoverished circumstances. So I think there's a lot of hypocrisy to go around here.
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