This case was basically about affirmative action in schools, and how a white student was mad that a colored student got into the school with lower grades while the white student was rejected.
The court ruled that while the school's policy was in violation of the law, they would not order the student to be admitted.
I think this is an interesting case because whites are typically very privileged and do not know the struggles of colored people. However the school's equal opportunity clause was based on race, which is discrimination; instead it should be based on income, and whether the student is going to be the first in their family to go to college. I would not mind giving up my spot at a school for a colored student because I know my place in society as a higher-class white kid, and I have not had to deal with economic hardship or indirect discrimination.
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