Admissions should only be granted on merit: Your Say

A 4-3 Supreme Court decision upheld the use of racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas. Facebook comments are edited for clarity, length and grammar:

Admissions should be merit-based, not race-based.

The ruling is racist and biased. Discrimination against white males is alive and well on our nation’s campuses. What a disgrace.

— Barry VanTrees

This is discrimination. Let’s admit students based on merit. All immigrants come from impoverished backgrounds; this includes all recent white immigrants, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Asian Americans, etc.

— Alex N Vivian Chang

Most whites aren’t handed free rides or funded based on our race. Even if we had the same Zip code, we would be overlooked because of the color of our skin. Discrimination against hard-working white people is worse than ever in this country.

— Stephanie Tomsa Jay

Even with affirmative action, the system we live in is rigged for white men to have anything and everything they want.

— Aderus Iamanidea Milan

This decision is the continuation of discrimination. It says that it is okay to discriminate by race against whites and Asians. That is against what the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

— Sal Maggiore

I believe affirmative action only directly benefits certain members of a marginalized group.

Ultimately, I guess the Supreme Court doesn't think we've reached the time when affirmative action is no longer necessary.

— Debbie Pitman Tepe