A move to reinstate racial preferences in California

[rangerrebew]

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Paul Mirengoff in California, Racial Preferences
A move to reinstate racial preferences in California

California Proposition 209, enacted by the state’s voters in 1996, amended the California Constitution to prohibit public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity. Now, the California legislature is considering legislation to reinstate racial preferences.

That legislation, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA 5), would repeal Prop. 209. The text is here.

The legislation tries to paint a grim picture of educational prospects for blacks and Latinos in California. It alleges that Proposition 209 “reduces the graduation rates of students of color” and has led to a loss of diversity on the state’s college campuses.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/a-move-to-reinstate-racial-preferences-in-california.php

[PeteS in CA]

In California, the legislature cannot repeal a ballot initiative. What it can do - and what this measure likely is - is place on an upcoming election ballot an initiative which, if passed, would repeal Proposition 209.

[rangerrebew]

May 15, 2020
Pigs at the trough: California Assembly wants more for itself at Asian-Americans' expense
By Monica Showalter

California's far-left state Legislature has found the coronavirus a useful crisis indeed and isn't letting it go to waste.

Now the legislators have decided that the coronavirus merits repealing a 1996 popular-will law, Proposition 209, which prohibits affirmative action in college admissions, state hiring, and state contracts.  Way back in 1996, California's voters of all colors had decided the idea had run its course and passed Proposition 209 to get rid of it.

Today, the legislative elites claim that disparate COVID-19 caseloads among black and Latino groups compared to others is proof that the practice needs to be brought back.  State assembly bill ACA-5 is a bid to bring back strict racial bean-counting in contracting, public hiring, and college admissions by altering the state's constitution.  To heck with what the voters thought.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/pigs_at_the_trough_california_assembly_wants_more_for_itself_at_asianamericanss_expense.html

[PeteS in CA]

An update on this:

California residents will have the chance in November to repeal state's affirmative action ban

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/california-residents-will-have-chance-november-repeal-states-affirmative

California voters in November will have the chance to end the state's quarter-century-long ban on public affirmative action, a move taken by the state legislature at a time of heightened concerns over racial politics and alleged institutional inequality throughout the country.

California's Proposition 209, passed in 1996, forbid public authorities from granting preferential treatment to "any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin." The rule applies to both government authorities and public institutions of education, including higher education.
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Yet California Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5, passed by the State Assembly earlier this month and by the State Senate yesterday, would if passed by voters in November repeal the 1996 provision and once again permit public officials to practice effective discrimination in hiring and admissions policies.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ahhh... California!  The land of Allan Bakke, and the home of ignoring the SCOTUS decision bearing his name.

[SZonian]

An update on this:

California residents will have the chance in November to repeal state's affirmative action ban

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/california-residents-will-have-chance-november-repeal-states-affirmative

YES!!
And Becerra will ensure the ballot measure is written in such a way as to guarantee its passage.

F*&$ California!  Cannot wait until I leave this shithole, 3rd world, Banana Republic for more conservative environs.

[mountaineer]

California Legislature Votes to Allow Discrimination by Race, Gender, National Origin
By Jeff Reynolds
 Jun 26, 2020 3:26 PM EST

This week, the legislature in California voted to remove the constitutional prohibition on “discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.” That’s right, California just voted to allow racial and gender discrimination in all its public activities. The bill will move to the ballot in November for a popular vote.  ...

The proponents of the bill, the most radical progressives in California (which is really saying something), say it’s about removing the ban on affirmative action, first passed in 1996. The University of California Board of Regents, headed by Janet Napolitano, supports this bill. Many have absurdly cited the CCP coronavirus pandemic and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department to say the era of affirmative action should end. Opponents call it nothing more than a racial spoils system designed to grant preferential treatment to some communities of color over others.  ...   More at PJ Media

[PeteS in CA]

Keep in mind what I posted above. This bill does not repeal Proposition 209. Having been a ballot proposition, Prop 209 can only be repealed by a ballot proposition. This prevents the legislature from over-riding a vote of the people of CA. This bill put on CA's November ballot a new proposition to repeal it.

Will CA'ians repeal Prop 209? I don't know, but my WAG is that this repeal effort will fail in a fairly close vote. A joker in the deck, so to speak, is that the net effect of restoring Aff-Am is that not only will whites be targets of discrimination, but so also will East and South Asians (just as, e.g., at Harvard). And I think many ethnic East and South Asians know they and their children will be targets. East and South Asians are only a few % of CA's population, but in a close vote, those few % could loom large.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Why not?

Segregation has been endorsed for many decades by the Democrat party.

Here's the Democrat party platform of 1956 following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v.  Board of Education which outlawed segregation in schools/

Recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States relating to segregation in publicly supported schools and elsewhere have brought consequences of vast importance to our Nation as a whole and especially to communities directly affected. We reject all proposals for the use of force to interfere with the orderly determination of these matters by the courts. 

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1956-democratic-party-platform

Can not be more clear that this is the party which rejects equality of people and supports segregation.