The Superior state of Florida dumped the Jim Crow Affirmative Discrimination for colleges years ago

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And college applicants since then have been judged not on the color of their skin but the content of their character.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-ditched-affirmative-action-years-ago-heres-how-worked-out

Florida ditched affirmative action years ago; here's how it worked out

Sunshine State banned race-based college admissions long before Supreme Court ruling

Decades before the Supreme Court caused an uproar last week by rejecting affirmative action in higher education, the state of Florida unilaterally banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions, potentially providing an instructive forecast of what to expect in other parts of the country moving forward.

The Supreme Court ended affirmative action in a landmark 6-3 decision last Thursday. The case combined lawsuits brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina with the student activist group Students for Fair Admissions, arguing that the schools' admissions programs discriminated against Asian applicants in violation of, respectively, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

"A benefit to a student whose herit­age or culture motivated him or her to assume a leadership role or attain a particular goal must be tied to that student's unique ability to contribute to the university," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's majority opinion.

"Many universities have for too long done just the oppo­site," Roberts added. "And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."

Liberals from various media outlets and Democrats in Congress slammed the ruling as discriminatory, with some commentators attacking Asian Americans as tools of White people and even White supremacists themselves.

Many Republicans expressed support for the Supreme Court's decision, including Florida Gov. and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who touted the Sunshine State's own approach to affirmative action when asked about the ruling.

"Florida was one of the first states in the nation to ban race and gender preferences in college admissions. We are proud to have a system based on merit instead of woke politics," a DeSantis spokesperson told local ABC affiliate WPBF 25.

The Florida Board of Governors, the governing body for the State University System of Florida that includes all public universities in the state, also praised the decision, similarly noting the decision from years ago to prohibit the use of race as a factor in college admissions.

This is why Florida has the best schools in the country.

And if you have a problem with that, you are a RACIST.