Obama Overrules Supreme Court Ruling, Tells Colleges To Enforce Affirmative Action Using Admissions

Democracy is beautiful in theory; 

in practice it is a fallacy.

The Supreme Court ruled against this only three months ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is telling colleges and universities they can continue to use admissions to increase diversity among their students, even in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that could potentially open the door to more challenges. 

"Racially diverse educational environments help to prepare students to succeed in our increasingly diverse nation," the administration said Friday in a letter to the schools. 

The Supreme Court ruled June 24 that schools should approve the use of race as a factor in admissions only after concluding "that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity."

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