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UNBELIEVABLE: Affirmative action divided asian americans and other people of color here s how | History Defined

Edward Blum Ed Blum Affirmative Action Abigail Fisher Harvard University Berkeley SFA Diversity
People protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston.

He was introduced by the Houston Chinese Alliance's David Cao, who prefaced Blum's presentation with a quote from George Orwell's novella Animal Farm.

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