U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, died in his sleep, Saturday (Feb.13). The 79-year-old justice who served almost 30-years on the bench, made headlines in December after he was criticized for comments made during affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas.
During the case, Scalia suggested that African American students may want to enroll at "slower-track" schools. The argument of the case at hand is over the University's policies to accept 75 percent of students who've graduate at the top 10 percent, which were predominately white students. The other 25 percent were enrolled based off their race and other factors.
In December 2015, Scalia said:
"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well. One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them."
He added, "I'm just not impressed by the fact the University of Texas may have fewer [blacks]. Maybe it ought to have fewer. I don't think it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible."
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