A colorblind Constitution: what Abigail Fisher’s affirmative action case is really about

Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in ProPublica, March 18, 2013

“I think that is incredibly important that people realize that today’s proponents of colorblindness pretend that they are the heirs to Thurgood Marshall and John Marshall Harlan,” he said. “But that is a lie. They are the heirs of Southern resistance to integration. And the colorblindness arguments that they use come directly from the Southern efforts to defeat Brown v. Board of Education.”