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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Affirmative action gave higher education opportunities to thousands of first-generation students of color and changed the trajectory of many families and of our country.
64% : In that regard, affirmative action has always existed - affirming privilege.
59% : What SCOTUS decision means for colleges: Supreme Court ends affirmative action in admissions.
57% : Just as swiftly, the beneficiaries of affirmative action were resented and marginalized for their sudden narrow advantage.
57% : Affirmative action wasn't a handout.
49% : And they stigmatized African American students, whether or not they were the beneficiaries of affirmative action.
48% : What if all the conservative justices on the Supreme Court cared to acquaint themselves with the fact that affirmative action was never more than an adjustment to a system that never had anything to do with equal access?
32% : Affirmative action in college admissions has been around since the mid-1960s, intended to accomplish the impossible - obliterate the grotesque exclusivity of higher education throughout the United States resulting from the systematic and savage discrimination on which our nation's economic disparities were constructed.

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