Charles E. Merrill, founder of Merrill Lynch, spent his life using power intentionally, and his son carried that same ethos into building real inclusion pipelines like A Better Chance. The post-SFFA enrollment crashes at MIT, Yale, and Stanford show what happens when we abandon that intentionality and pretend “neutrality” produces justice. Today’s rollback—DEI bans, court defiance, engineered colorblindness—proves the exclusion pipeline is winning unless we choose to build something else.

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After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions in 2023, Black enrollment at MIT dropped from 15% to 5% in a single year. At Yale, Black a...