“In 2008, when Barack Obama was a candidate for president, he was asked whether his daughters—Malia and Sasha—should benefit from
affirmative action. He answered in the negative” (Ta-Nehisi Coates).
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
African Americans who are in power tend to distance themselves from the public policies benefiting their ethnicity. Here is another example: Justice
Thomas dissented from the majority opinion in case Grutter v. Bollinger. Why do they do that?
Use the opinion of Justice Thomas on Grutter v. Bollinger, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZX1.html, as the exhibit to start a
conversation, make a claim to answer the question above.
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