Randall Kennedy

We only have one spot left, two kids.

One's a black kid, one's a white kid.

They both got 99.

We're gonna give it to the black kid.

Why?

Well, black kid.

All there is to it.

The black kid, we want to, you know, maybe, and then our theory, you know, maybe our theory is that black people have been done wrong in the United States, and we want our institution to contribute to making amends.

That might be a theory.

Another theory might be...

you know, we think that we'll have a more interesting student body, we'll have a better student body, a more, you know, better discussion if there are more Black kids on campus.

And unless we make a special effort to bring more Black kids on campus, you know,

our student body will be overwhelmingly monoracial.

We'll just have white kids, a few Asian kids, a few Latino kids.

If there are no black kids here, I don't know, it'll be lacking an important aspect of American life.

So that's some sort of the so-called diversity story.

So anyway, there are various theories about

Some are grounded, like I said, in reparative justice.

Some might be grounded in distributive justice.

So, for instance, when people say nowadays, you know, we want a cabinet, we want a team, we want a student body that looks like America.