On Wednesday the California state assembly passed a bill, by a vote of 45 – 30 with no debate, that would allow the University of California and California State University systems to consider race in admissions.
But, you must be wondering, as I did, wouldn’t such a law kick sand in the face of Prop. 209, which bans the consideration of race? Good question, but Ricardo Lara, communications director for Marco Firebaugh, principal [not “principle,” as originally mis-typed!] author of the bill, says no.
Lara said the bill does not violate Proposition 209 because it “does not allow for any preferential treatment,” and merely advocates the consideration of more than academic factors.
What is the point of considering something that can’t be used? In fact, if racial information cannot be used to influence admission decisions, what exactly would “consideration” of it entail?
Discriminating minds want to know, and so we turn to Rev. Jesse Jackson for enlightenment.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson supports the ideas in the bill because he said the consideration of race is necessary to achieve the ideals of equality American culture has traditionally resisted.
The reverend is right. This bill is an attempt to achieve a kind of equality — an equality based on state management of the “race market” to achieve ensure a politically determined proper racial mix in all areas of life — that American culture has in fact traditionally resisted. And if that’s not clear enough, Jackson adds:
“Using race as a factor is a good and necessary idea to make crooked ways straight,” Jackson said.
That clears it up.
Let me take a shot at interpreting this.
When the law explicitly allows affirmative action, they will just follow the law.
When there is no prohibition against affirmative action in the law, they will interpret it to mean that the law allows affirmative action.
When the law explicitly bans affirmative action, they will simply ignore the law.
Any questions?
These people have no respect for their citizens of California. Schwarzenegger should ream them out.
what a surprise, the monkey business of politics continues. Very soon the entire, uc and csu, college system in california will become a holding pen after high school.
what a surprise, the monkey business of politics continues. Very soon the entire college system, uc and csu, in california will become a holding pen after high school.
Gentlemen, it wouldn’t bother me so much but for the double impact it has on my people, white Christians.
You see, given the 25 or so IQ points that Jews have over us gentile whites any talk of setting aside “white” college and law school positions for blacks, hispanics and asians is always going to hit us harder than Jews.
It is white Christians who are in the rear ranks of white admissions and therefore white Christians who are going to be disproportionately penalized by these affirmative action programs. It wouldn’t bother me so much if they broke whites down into Jews and Christians and then looked at disproportionate representation.
Years ago, listening to Jewish activist students at Harvard Law School (some 20-35% of the class) talking about “racism” and the need for more blacks and fewer whites really got my goat. “Easy for them to say,” I thought, “since they were going to keep their disproportionate share.”
I do appreciate Eugene Volokh, a Russian immigrant Jew, now a full tenured professor at Boalt Hall(?) teaching us Americans about our history and Constitution. He is against affirmative action because it hurts Jews. Well and good, Eugene. I am against it because it hurts my tribe even worse.
I am sorry that I didn’t have the time to read this site with attention, but I am only asking you to indicate me where could I find more information about human racial genetics.
I am simply interested in it (racial diferences by genoms) as a private person, I am not a scholar in genetics.
I am not racist also, just curious.
Angela