Erica Marsh’s Twitter page marked as ‘Bot parody’ after saying Black people can’t succeed in merit-based system.
A Twitter account under the name of Erica Marsh has captured Twitter users’ attention. The account which seems to be run by a liberal person shared their opinion on the Supreme Court supposedly attacking Black people. Many believe that the account is fake as the name was taken from a television show. The account’s profile picture also seems peculiar.
On June 29, Erica Marsh took to her Twitter account that is under the username, @ericareport. In the same, the Twitter user spoke about how the Supreme Court must incorporate “affirmative-action based programs” to ensure that Black people can succeed. The tweet read:
“Today’s Supreme Court decision is a direct attack on Black people. No Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system which is exactly why affirmative-action based programs were needed. Today’s decision is a TRAVESTY!!!”
The court once again has divided sharply on ideological lines. The six conservative justices in the majority heralded the decision as a step toward a more colourblind society, where students will be measured by their accomplishments, not their race. The three liberals condemned the ruling, arguing that it ignored the ongoing reality of discrimination in America.
The sweeping decision applies to every university, public and private, across the US. But it is the prestigious Ivy League institutions like Harvard, where tens of thousands of applicants compete for hundreds of spots a year, that could be affected the most by the ruling.
The court did not say it was directly overruling a 20-year-old legal precedent that universities could consider race as a factor in a holistic effort to create a diverse student body. But University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck says the effect will be just as significant.
In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts drew a direct line from the landmark court 1954 case Brown v Board of Education, which ended segregation in education, to this opinion on college admissions.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” the chief justice wrote.
He said that universities could not have an open-ended timeline for addressing past discrimination, and dismissed the explanations that Harvard and the University of North Carolina used to justify their policies as unfocused, discriminatory and tied to racial stereotypes.
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