Getting Serious About Race: The Next 25 Years

National Journal
June 28, 2003

"We are mindful ... that `[a] core purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to do away with all governmentally imposed discrimination based on race.' ... Accordingly, race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time.... We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest [in racial diversity] approved today."

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