In an article published yesterday on SCOTUSblog.com, Professor Michael J. Klarman, from Harvard Law School, outlines the Supreme Court’s impact on race relations for the last fifty years, from Brown vs. Board of Education to Parents Involved.  It is an interesting historical account and well worth the read.

Professor Klarman reminds readers of the current conservative majority’s common ideology:  “That ideology embraces a narrow, formalist conception of what counts as race discrimination; abhors the use of racial preferences, whether benignly motivated or not; and deems this nation’s ugly history of white supremacy as something more to be repudiated than remedied.”  This is important for us, as advocates to remember.  By using the tools the Race Equity Project endorses, such as social cognition and framing, we can push back against this conservative ideology, to prevent further racially regressive results in our communities.