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Statements based on the best current scientific data and analyses that bear directly on societal issues, especially ones that are critical to societal justice, equity, and health, are practical responsibilities of professional scientific organizations. And they often have impact.

Massive amounts of data and countless analyses collected across decades of scholarly research demonstrate unequivocally that bias and inequity based on race (in other words, racism ) have occurred and still occur throughout society in the United States (the same can be said for many other nations). American higher education is one of the places where racism has been, and still is, well documented again and again and again. Not unexpectedly, six of the nine justices on the US Supreme Court recently chose to disregard these facts and argue for a "race neutral" approach in college admissions.