During a White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and affirmative action.
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00:00 >> I've got April.
00:02 >> This week, President Biden is going to commemorate the anniversary of Brown v. Board.
00:09 Does this president and/or this administration believe that Brown v. Board may have been
00:15 weakened by the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action in college admissions?
00:20 >> So as you just stated in your question to me, the president is going to commemorate
00:25 Brown v. Board, and he's also going to meet with the families.
00:29 That's going to happen on Thursday.
00:30 On Friday, he's going to go over to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
00:36 He'll be there on Friday to give a really important speech.
00:39 I don't want to get ahead of the president, but to your question about the Supreme Court's
00:45 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard last year, the president reiterated
00:52 that his administration will fight to preserve the hard-earned progress we have made to advance
00:58 racial equity, civil rights, and expand educational opportunity for all Americans.
01:02 Specifically, the president called on colleges and universities, when selecting among qualified
01:07 applicants, to give serious consideration to adversities students have overcome, including
01:14 the financial means of a student or their family, where a student grew up and went to
01:19 high school, and personal experience of hardship and discrimination, including racial discrimination
01:25 that a student may have faced.
01:27 As the president said last June, when this verdict came down, he strongly disagrees with
01:32 the court decision and believes that one of the greatest strengths of America is indeed
01:36 our diversity.
01:37 The president, again, is going to speak about this on Friday, so I don't want to get ahead
01:42 of him, but we have made very clear how we feel about this decision that happened almost
01:47 a year ago.
01:48 But does he believe that it undermines Brown v. Board, this historic ruling that integrates
01:55 schools and we are actually seeing the segregation of schools still in this country?
02:00 No, I totally agree with all the points that you made.
02:02 I laid out what we thought about that decision that came last June, and we had said it is
02:09 something that is concerning, incredibly concerning.
02:12 The president is going to give a speech on Friday.
02:15 I'm going to let the president speak for himself.
02:17 He will address this.
02:18 Obviously, we are indeed commemorating the landmark Broad v. Board of Education, and
02:27 so that's something we're going to meet with the families on Thursday.
02:29 So you see a pattern here that the president is going to meet with the families on Thursday,
02:33 he's going to give remarks on Friday, and he will speak to this himself.
02:37 But I wanted to lay down what we have said already about the ruling, the admissions ruling
02:44 versus Harvard that happened last year.
02:46 We've been very clear about that.