Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
As someone of Hispanic descent this is very interesting to me. Affirmative Action probably helped my father, whose father was a construction worker and mother a homemaker both of whom dropped out of high school, get into college and ultimately become a doctor.<p>But because my father was a doctor, I had a fairly privileged upbringing. I&#x27;m a generation removed, but growing up in California always had to indicate my background on standardized tests and always checked &quot;White&quot; for race and then &quot;Hispanic&quot; for ethnicity (which is how all the tests asked it in those days, not sure if it&#x27;s still the case), without thinking much about it.<p>I went to MIT, and to this day I wonder how much checking &quot;Hispanic&quot; helped me there and if I &quot;deserved&quot; to go. I was valedictorian and had a perfect score on the SATs and I feel like I was a strong candidate, but then everyone who gets into MIT is strong. And since I did successfully graduate then I guess it was fine that I was accepted, but I was constantly blown away and overwhelmed by the accomplishments of my peers there, and always wondered a bit if I belonged.<p>I&#x27;ve always had an identity crisis about what I am. I know in the current zeitgeist there&#x27;s a big push for racial justice, of which being Hispanic and &quot;brown&quot; is a part. But it also feels totally irrelevant to me, personally, because of my upper class upbringing and elite education, and I feel like I&#x27;ve never really been discriminated against.  Though I possibly have been discriminated &quot;for&quot;, and benefited tremendously from it.<p>So I don&#x27;t know how I feel about this change. It&#x27;s certainly a big one, but in the long run, maybe it&#x27;s good? I know I&#x27;ve always wondered if being Hispanic helped me get into college or into jobs, but the flip side is that other people must wonder the same...