In the immediate wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action was unconstitutional and discriminated against Asian students applying to institutions of higher education on Thursday, the cast liberal bloviators featured on MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports had a mental meltdown as they predicted the return of segregated schools and openly decried more Asian students getting admitted.
After the decision was released and before we knew the contents, host Ana Cabrera looked to former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian who claimed law schools would go back to having only three black students in an entire graduating class:
That's a big one. And It’s funny, just before we started I asked Charles what law school he went to. He went to Howard. I had a different experience, it was me Sonia, and Bob, three black students in my graduating class in law school in 1988. Love my law school, but that's not a good thing, and they've now increased black student population. And if this decision comes out a way that it shouldn't, depending on your political beliefs, then you're going to go back to a three-person, black-person class in a class of 200, and that's just not a good thing.
Up next was MSNBC regular and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude, who openly decried that more Asian students would get into institutions of higher education and suggested segregation was coming back:
Well, you know, to be honest with you, we will return to elite institutions, more specifically being the space for a particular population, predominantly white and Asian students. We will begin to see a kind of segregated higher education landscape.
Glaude grew overly emotional and appeared on the verge of tears as he falsely proclaimed that affirmative action was “the only remedy” to ensure black students get into college:
And the irony, of course, as I try to -- I've anticipated this decision, I'm trying to manage my emotions, but you know, this was just one remedy, affirmative action, the only remedy to the legacy of discrimination in admissions in American higher education. Only one remedy. And so here they've taken it away!
There was no discussion of how to improve inner-city schools or offer school choice.
Cabrera would eventually bring on Antonia Hylton who was at Harvard University (the school named in the lawsuit for discriminating against Asian students) to share how students there were reacting. The decision was only out for a few minutes at that point so it’s unlikely she spoke to enough people to get an accurate temperature of the student body. But that didn’t stop her from speaking definitively.
“They are reeling,” she proclaimed. “They are devastated and they're worried about what the culture, what the makeup of their classes, the future generations coming up behind them at Harvard, what they're going to look like in the future.”
In the video tweets below, Cabrera also spoke with MSNBC analyst and liberal white woman Dahlia Lithwick who scoffed at the plight of the Asian students Harvard rejects for their race and falsely asserted they had “no evidence.” In the second video, Cabrera argues that the Supreme Court should rule based on the results of an Associated Press poll.
Host Ana Cabrera argues that SCOTUS should only rule based on the results of poorly-conducted polls put out by the Associated Press (which willingly shares office space with Hamas). pic.twitter.com/EcGRv42iz6
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 29, 2023
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports
June 29, 2023
10:03:47 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA CABRERA: As we await the outcome in this decision, what's going through your mind right now, Catherine?
CATHERINE CHRISTIAN (Fmr. Asst. Manhattan DA): That's a big one. And It’s funny, just before we started I asked Charles what law school he went to. He went to Howard. I had a different experience, it was me Sonia, and Bob, three black students in my graduating class in law school in 1988. Love my law school, but that's not a good thing, and they've now increased black student population. And if this decision comes out a way that it shouldn't, depending on your political beliefs, then you're going to go back to a three-person, black person class in a class of 200, and that's just not a good thing.
(…)
10:05:48 a.m. Eastern
CABRERA: Eddie Glaude, you're with us. Your thoughts if indeed affirmative action is now banned nationwide from the college admission process, what is the impact?
EDDIE GLAUDE: Well, you know, to be honest with you, we will return to elite institutions, more specifically being the space for a particular population, predominantly white and Asian students. We will begin to see a kind of segregated higher education landscape.
And the irony, of course, as I try to -- I've an anticipated this decision, I'm trying to manage my emotions, but you know, this was just one remedy, affirmative action, the only remedy to the legacy of discrimination in admissions in American higher education. Only one remedy. And so here they've taken it away!
(…)
10:19:26 a.m. Eastern
CABRERA: I want to bring in NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, who is at Harvard University. Of course, that is one of the schools involved directly in the cases at hand. And what are you hearing, what kind of reaction is happening there?
ANTONIA HYLTON: Well Ana, the majority of the students I've spoken to -- and I've been in conversation with them for weeks leading up to this moment. They are reeling. They are devastated and they're worried about what the culture, what the makeup of their classes, the future generations coming up behind them at Harvard, what they're going to look like in the future.
(…)
