Mike Pence says racial inequity not exists in faculties: ‘That time has passed’

Former Vice President Mike Pence stated Sunday he doesn’t imagine racial inequities exist any extra in America’s faculty system.

His feedback got here within the wake of the Supreme Court gutting affirmative motion in school admissions that faculties used to simply accept college students primarily based on race.

“Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan requested Mr. Pence about that call and his reply that affirmative motion all the time was meant to be a brief answer.

Are “you saying there in that answer that you do not believe there is racial inequity in the education system in America?” she requested.

“I really don’t believe there is. I believe there was,” Mr. Pence replied.

“There may have been a time when affirmative action was necessary simply to open the doors of all of our schools and universities, but I think that time has passed,” stated Mr. Pence, who can be searching for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

The courtroom’s conservative majority dominated final week that race-based affirmative motion violated the 14th Amendment ensures of equal safety underneath the regulation.

Mr. Pence stated he doesn’t assume that the tip of race-based affirmative motion means, as some liberal pundits have predicted, a return to the all-White campuses of the Jim Crow period.

“I really do believe that we can move forward as a country and embrace the notion that we’re all going to be judged not on the color of our skin, but on the content of our character, and in this case, on our GPA,” Mr. Pence stated.