Progressive discrimination: Your kids matter, unless they're Asian

In 2007, in a case involving school desegregation, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stated what some have always thought was obvious: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

But when race is involved in the United States, it's never that simple.

Cases involving schools and affirmative action historically have been about minorities on one side of the divide and white kids on the other. Minorities have been portrayed as victims; whites, as the privileged ones. But now we're witnessing something new: disputes with minorities on both sides of the line - Black and Hispanic kids on one side, Asian Americans on the other.

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