The Democrats are fired up about SCOTUS ending race-based college admission practices for one reason - it covered up their failures in public elementary and secondary school education in majority black school systems.

Admitting a black student with a weaker academic record than a comparable white or Asian student was the mechanism by which they could stifle the discussion over why black kids are not performing at the same levels as those students.

They would have to reconcile why. St. Augustine High School, a predominantly black high school in New Orleans, sent every 2022 graduate to a college or university and broke a school record in scholarships. The 100 St. Aug grads were awarded a combined $9.2 million in scholarships.

They would need to address why St. Mary's Academy, also predominantly black and in New Orleans, has had a 100 percent college acceptance rate for the past 20 years.

The black middle class in America was growing faster in the decade before the implementation of Affirmative Action programs that it has at any time since, so a sober look at these programs would seem to indicate they hurt black students rather than helped them.

Good riddance.