I was a teenager in the summer of 1978 when the Supreme Court rendered its decision in the “Bakke” case, enshrining affirmative action into our laws. I haven’t reviewed the decision recently, but I do recall that at least one of the justices said that the necessity for affirmative action should disappear within a reasonable period of time, meaning that the decision wouldn’t last forever. Well, it has been nearly 50 years (close to 20% of the time that we have been a nation), and we have had a half black person of dubious origin elected twice to be President of the United States. I would say that official discrimination, which the Bakke decision was aimed at stopping, is no longer a thing. Time to get rid of not only Bakke, but all other similar decisions. The way to end race discrimination is, quite simply, to end race discrimination.
Bakke was effectively overturned in 2023.