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‘The Fearless Fund’ Is Something Everyone Should Support
How affirmative action opponents are betraying their own claims of supposedly advocating for “small government”
This past summer, the U.S. Supreme Court’s companion rulings in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina made waves across the political spectrum.
By a vote of 6–3, the High Court effectively outlawed a vast majority of college admissions policies that have traditionally fallen under the category of “affirmative action.”
Americans hold a wide array of opinions about the concept of affirmative action — running the gamut from “It’s never acceptable” to “By any means necessary.”
At a later point in time, I’ll write a separate piece detailing what I believe the U.S. Supreme Court got wrong about affirmative action. For the moment, however, the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) ruling serves as a shaky precedent for the latest target of the Far Right’s ubiquitous culture wars.
They’ve zeroed in on The Fearless Fund. It was co-founded in 2019 by Arian Simone and Ayana Parsons — two Black women passionate about supporting Women of Color in entrepreneurship by raising seed money and broader venture capital…
