Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is a federal law that prohibits private entities, like colleges, that receive federal government funds from discriminating on the basis of race. Harvard said it will 'comply' with the Supreme Court ruling, however, they admitted they will still use an applicant's essay discussing how 'race affected his or her life' during the admissions process.
In liberal California, 57% of voters in 2020 cast their ballots against reinstating affirmative action in the state's public colleges and universities. More than two decades ago, affirmative action was terminated and within the UC system for elite colleges and universities in the state, and there was a 50% reduction in black and Latino minority admissions. Most people agree that admission should be based on grades and accomplishments.

The Supreme Court just gutted the use of affirmative action programs in both private colleges and public universities, and it did so by once again ignoring its own decisions.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but these Supreme Court decisions are another manifestation of how conservative this court is, and how little regard it has for precedent. As it did in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court reversed itself. In 2003, the now-retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for a majority of the court, concluded that the universities could consider race in its admissions decisions. That court explicitly recognized the government's goal of creating a diverse student body. Those days are gone.