Ronald Dworkin’s position in his article “Why Bakke Has No Case” shows the best comprehensive understanding of racial injustice in my opinion. He uses both history and the current social climate to justify his ideal use of racial criteria in matters such as university admissions or hiring processes, like in the admission in question in Board of Regents v. Bakke (1978). Dworkin begins by noting that, historically, our country has had atrocious race relations, first and foremost from the institution of slavery. Many against affirmative action would argue this history ended with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, but Dworkin claims the efforts against racism since then have been a failure. He notes there are many aspects of life which the history
