MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Thursday that the Supreme Court’s ruling nullifying the affirmative action program is “a dagger in our back” that should be ignored.

“I think this is like sticking a dagger in our back because what they’re saying now is that even considering race is unconstitutional and we can’t take the racial history of this country. Because when you think about it, let’s not let black people act like they’re behind for some reason,” says Sharpton, MSNBC guest host Alicia Witt. told to “Until 160 years ago, even our reading and writing were against the law. We were enslaved for 246 years. It will happen.” (Related: ‘It’s Joe Biden’: Larry Elder Says Al Sharpton Is No Longer America’s ‘Biggest Race Card Hustler’)

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The Supreme Court overturned the University of North Carolina and Harvard’s racially-based admission policies in a 6-3 victory. Ruling 6-2 for North Carolina Ruling In the case of Harvard University (Associate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson resigned from the Harvard case).

“There is a right-wing Trump court,” Sharpton said. “Because don’t forget that Trump nominated nine members of the sitting court, one-third of them, and Trump appointed three of them. Keep it and then go.” You have to pull the rug up from under you in terms of equal consideration. ”

The Supreme Court lost to the Republican side of the North Carolina legislature in a dispute with the state Supreme Court following its February 2022 congressional district ruling, arguing that the Constitution reserves its powers to the legislature. made a judgment. In this case, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh voted, along with Chief Justice John Roberts and three more liberal justices.

“The last point that really scares me is that now in the private sector, companies, many of them around the George Floyd movement, made promises that weren’t delivered and now say, ‘We can’t do it. It means that you can say. Now that the courts are saying it’s unconstitutional, race should be considered in terms of contracts, employment, board membership, community activism,” Sharpton said. “This is a colossal setback and must be resisted by all positions, including the Department of Justice and states, because they say it is unconstitutional to even consider race. I think it is inconceivable not to consider the

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