California is trying to bring race back into the equation when it comes to admitting college students into their schools. California currently has prop 209 which makes it so students are taken in based on their abilities not on their race or sex. So Dems are thinking that this is somehow not fair and are looking to force diversity in colleges regardless of grade point averages. So basically they want to give minorities preferential treatment.
“California Democrats are ramming through an effort to repeal the state’s ban on racial preferences.
Two things often happen when a single political party dominates a state the way Democrats dominate California. First, an echo chamber of the dominant party convinces its leaders they can steamroll over any opposition. Second, that conviction leads to political overreach.
Caucasian Americans are now only 19 percent of UC students, down from 38 percent a quarter-century ago — this change reflects the increasing ethnic diversity of Californians.
Next month, Golden State Democrats plan to use the two-thirds control they have in the legislature to push through a November ballot measure asking voters to end the ban on racial preferences.
They should remember what happened when this was attempted before. Last year, liberals in Washington State used a similar route to repeal that state’s version of Proposition 209, which had passed with 58 percent in 1998. Liberals vastly outspent opponents and won endorsements from leading establishment figures. But they still lost, as voters rejected preferential treatment 51 to 49 percent. Retrying that strategy in a highly visible California referendum would be dicey.
That’s also what California Democrats themselves concluded back in 2014.
The alternative — racial discrimination — is a sordid business. A lawsuit filed by Asian Americans against Harvard University has revealed just how arbitrary and subjective its admissions process really is. Asian-American voters are well aware their children face a rigged system at universities that don’t have Proposition 209 protections. Preferential treatment for some groups necessarily means discrimination against others.
All of this is likely to be exposed during any debate over ACA-5 — the California bill to repeal Prop 209. Asian-Americans will take the lead in opposing ACA-5, but a nationwide Pew Research poll last year found that majorities of all racial and ethnic groups say colleges should not consider race in admissions. ”
I am surprised California allowed this merit-based version of enrollment in the first place. It seems they are getting back to their liberal roots though with ACA-5, hindering students who excel by forcing colleges to be more diverse.
It is the best way to get dead people and illegals aliens to vote. They will get more votes than they have registered votes.
Admission to Colleges, as well as admissions to job opportunities, should be based on qualifications. Not Race, Religion or Political affiliations should supercede vacancies that require certain parameters.
NO TO MAIL IN BALLOTS!!….ELECTION FRAUD SHOULD BE PUNISHABLE BY LOTS OF JAIL TIME….PERIOD
California is down the toilet….they CANNOT do this again…NOBODY should be allowed in colleges because of race
Soros and his minions the NAZI Commie liberal party, Fake news, Antifa, CIA, FBI, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, The useful idiots, RINOs etc…are responsible for this rioting and destruction throughout the country. This treasonous act should not go unpunished! It’s about time these deep State rats are held accountable! Patriots, we need to save the country from turning into another Commie shit hole just like all the other lib run cities!!
this is discrimination at its best…it failed before and hopefully will fail again…merits should be based on character, NOT SKIN COLOR
In case nobody has noticed it, the Democrat Party is now ALL about discriminating against WHITE PEOPLE. You know the worst part of that? White Democrats are all for it!!!! They’re being forced to their knees by their own chosen leaders and they think it’s cool! The indoctrination by Carter’s US Dep’t of Education is bearing real fruit now!
What’s the saying? They will grow to love their chains. That describes Democrats to a tee!
Democrats are slow learners and quick forgetters. In June of 1978 a man named Alan Bakke took his case regarding affirmative action to the SCOTUS. He had applied twice to the medical school at UC and was turned away, simply because he was a white man. The Court ruled that California’s affirmative action plan was unconstitutional and that it violated equal protection laws and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1996 California adopted Proposition 209, which did away with race as a determining factor for college acceptance. Today, they are apparently attempting to eliminate Prop 209 and return to some sort of acceptance based upon affirmative action. California leadership would just shit if someone suggested they just ignore the queer marriage ruling and that they should just outlaw it. The difference is that queers are approximately 5% of the population, while white men are closer to 30%. In the ’70 s, white men were approximately half of the college student population and today they are close to 18%-if any group were to get an affirmative action preference, it maybe should be white men.