Diamond and Silk Praise Trump Administration For Withdrawing Affirmative Action Guidance

Viral Internet personalities Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, African-American sisters popularly known as “Diamond” and “Silk” praised the Trump administration’s decision to nix Obama-era guidance encouraging schools to consider race during the admissions process. “When you tell people ‘You can accept people in your school based on race,’ you have to be cautious because that can go back, that can fall either way,” told Bold TV today. “It could discriminate against black people, it could discriminate against white people, Asians, Hispanics, and we don’t want racism. Listen, we are one race in this country, we have civil liberties and freedoms. No one should be discriminating, and you should go to school based on merit, not because of your skin color. Because somebody with a certain skin color may not have done nothing, you grant them admissions into college, but somebody that’s work hard, they get no admission because of skin color, I think that’s discrimination.” The departments of Justice and Education this week recalled various guidance letters and memos advising schools on how to legally consider race in admissions and other decisions. “I also think we should start basing this based on the content of people’s character and not the color of their…
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