Affirmative action is over in the United States, but only for Black people | Tayo Bero

Don't worry, privileged white students can still rely on their parents' money and connections to get into Harvard. Yay!

Affirmative action as we know it is officially over.

The US supreme court ruled this week that race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. And just to be clear, affirmative action as a whole isn't cancelled - it's just the race part that the court is gutting.

Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist