CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 5 -- TOO MUCH EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, NOT ENOUGH EQUALITY OF OUTCOME
OMG … The racist progressive socialist democrats suddenly took a look around the state institutions of higher learning and found that Asians with entrepreneurial and professional aspirations were not majoring in those feminist and cultural programs that produce unemployed progressive socialist democrats – and where is the equality in that? Could the progressive socialist democrats be Asia-phobes?
But, don’t get those progressive socialist democrats wrong, they aren’t suggesting reinstating quotas, are they? Of course not, unless you specifically say it’s a quota and count noses, it can’t be a quota.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck – then it must be a duck or a progressive socialist democrat pseudo-duck … [my comments in blue italic]
California Affirmative Action: Campus Diversity Suffers Under Race-Blind Policies
Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide who gets in and who doesn't? With an emphatic "no," they made California the first state to ban the use of race and ethnicity in public university admissions, as well as hiring and contracting.
Since then, California's most selective public colleges and graduate schools have struggled to assemble student bodies that reflect the state's demographic mix.
[Unfortunately, the progressive socialist democrats do not believe in exceptionalism nor do they believe in a world where a target population, be it a school or the Supreme Court, does not mirror the percentage population of minorities found across the nation. In essence, promoting the socialist equality of outcomes over the capitalist equality of opportunity. Since a nation’s resources are finite, that means the progressive socialist democrats believe in managing real or imagined scarcity downward so that everyone is equally dumb and miserable rather than smart and happy.]
Universities around the country could soon face the same challenge. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to revisit the thorny issue of affirmative action less than a decade after it endorsed the use of race as a factor in college admissions.
[No matter how you define it, affirmative action is another name for quota-based reverse discrimination.
The effects of California's ban, known as Proposition 209, are particularly evident at the world-renowned University of California, Berkeley campus, where the student body is highly diverse but hardly resembles the ethnic and racial fabric of the state.
With affirmative action outlawed, Asian American students have dominated admissions. The freshman class admitted to UC Berkeley this coming fall is 30 percent white and 46 percent Asian, according to newly released data. The share of admitted Asians is four times higher than their percentage in the state's K-12 public schools.
But traditionally underrepresented Hispanic and black students remain so. In a state where Latinos make up half the K-12 public school population, only 15 percent of the Berkeley students are Hispanic. And the freshman class is less than 4 percent African Americans, although they make up 7 percent of the K-12 students.
[This is awful. The Asian culture – ‘a zero-defect culture’ that prizes education and achievement – is producing more qualified students than say the Mexican culture – ‘a good enough culture’ that does not prize education and achievement.]
Junior Magali Flores, 20, said she experienced culture shock when she arrived on the Berkeley campus in 2009 after graduating from a predominantly Latino high school in Los Angeles. Flores, one of five children of working-class parents from Mexico, said she feels the university can feel hostile to students of color, causing some to leave because they don't feel welcome at Berkeley. "We want to see more of our people on campus," Flores said. "With diversity, more people would be tolerant and understanding of different ethnicities, different cultures."
[Something is wrong with Flores’ account of culture shock. Berkeley is one of the most progressive socialist democrat bastions in the University of California system. A hotbed of radical racial, ethnic, and gender advocacy.
Perhaps, Flores did not feel as welcome as she does among her own people – some of which have turned areas of Southern California into the impoverished, undereducated, unemployed, and crime-ridden hell-holes they left behind. When people speak of tolerance and understanding of different cultures, they are often speaking about securing special affirmative action advantages which does not require strict adherence to strict admission requirements or academic norms.
But, then again, one only needs to turn to academia.edu to find that Flores is an activist with a biased opinion that needs to be discounted …
With that educational background, one cannot imagine gainful employment other than in education, government, foundations, or some other endeavor that requires activist credentials – perhaps as a unionized community organizer? Of course, there is always law school as a force multiplier for activist activities. Considering that affirmative action gave a boost to President Obama, Justice Sotomayor, and Senator Elizabeth 'Tonto' Warren as they went to prestigeous law schools.]
UC Berkeley has tried to bolster diversity by expanding outreach to high schools in poor neighborhoods and considering applicants' achievements in light of the academic opportunities available to them. But officials say it's hard to find large numbers of underrepresented minorities competitive enough for Berkeley, where only about one in five applicants are offered spots in the freshman class. In addition, California's highest-achieving minority students are heavily recruited by top private colleges that practice affirmative action and offer scholarships to minorities, administrators say. "It's frustrating," said Harry Le Grande, vice chancellor of student affairs at Berkeley. "Many times we lose them to elite privates that can actually take race into account when they admit students."
[It is almost impossible to promote underachieving minorities in the hard sciences since physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics do not have racial, ethnic, or gender fudge factors that would allow a minority to compete with any high-achieving student. So, like recruiting elite athletes with scholarships and other perks, why should we be surprised that some elite educational institutions are recruiting the high-achieving students, and leaving the dregs for lesser institutions? It is the way of the world in a capitalist society that fosters and features exceptionalism and a meritocracy.]
Backers say affirmative-action policies are needed to combat the legacy of racial discrimination and level the playing field for minorities who are more likely to attend inferior high schools. Colleges benefit from diverse student bodies, and minority students often become leaders in their communities after graduating from top colleges.
[Ah ha! The progressive socialist democrats and their special interest union buddies have destroyed the modern educational system. They have polluted a fact-based education by concentrating on factors other than achievement. They have dumbed-down tests so that parents do not revolt and abandon the progressive socialist democrat party in droves. They have made education more about funding large progressive socialist democrat pension funds than about the children. The worst inner cities are mostly under progressive socialist democrat control, where funds are siphoned-off by politically-connected special interests before they even reach the classroom. Where classroom discipline is almost non-existent and hooliganism is tolerated while making a fake gun sign with your fingers gets you expelled. Kabuki Theatre to distract from the fact that progressive socialist democrat educators have screwed the pooch and have produced a system where minorities must be given affirmative action programs to avoid the reality of another generation of functional illiterates. Let us not forget that it was the progressive socialist democrats who were behind the single-parent, multiple-child, multiple-father families as a cultural by-products. Where the children having children are fast-tracked into poverty and government entitlements rather than elite schools like the Little Red Schoolhouse otherwise known as Bezerkeley.]
"It's critical that our most selective institutions that look at least somewhat like the rest of our society," Nassirian said.
[This is pure bullshit. Our most selective institutions do not need to look like the rest of our society. They need to look like an elite group of super-achievers if our exceptional American nature is to continue at the forefront of societal leadership. Yes, we are exceptional. And Barack Obama, and the United Nations, be damned if they think we should become just another unexceptional member nation of the United Nations. An industrialized nation plundered to fund the underdeveloped countries.]
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Despite consistent opposition, California's ban has remained enshrined in law. Earlier this month, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Proposition 209 for the second time. The three-judge panel rejected a legal challenge in which Gov. Jerry Brown joined minority students in arguing the law is unconstitutional.
[I submit to you that Governor Jerry Brown is nothing more than a prototypical progressive socialist democrat pandering to the minorities needed to create a coalition of the disaffected so they can gain or maintain political power to perpetuate the radical socialist democrat party in California and elsewhere. Apparently, Jerry Brown does not understand the California State Constitution or the United States Constitution when it promotes equality under the law.]
Affirmative-action advocates say Proposition 209 has created a "new Jim Crow regime" in California, where elite public colleges are dominated by white and Asian students while black and Hispanic students are relegated to less prestigious campuses.
[Now for the labels: Jim Crow, racist, bigot, hater, denier, ‘phobe or other designation that the progressive socialist democrats use to bow their detractors into compliance or silence. Perhaps, Brown should rail against the heavens to intercede and turn the good-enough culture of the Blacks and Hispanics into the zero-defect culture of the Whites and Asians.]
"It is extraordinary that the vast majority of high school graduates in this state are minorities, and they're denied the opportunities to go to their state universities," said attorney Shanta Driver for the group By Any Means Necessary, which filed suit to overturn the ban.
[Wow! The display of the core truth of the progressive socialist democrats – where the means, fair or foul, justify the ends. Hence, “By Any Means Necessary.” If the majority of high school graduates are minorities and are denied the opportunities to go to OUR state universities … perhaps the problem is with the student, the educational system, home-life, or cultural environment. An environment that sees mainstreamed and very proficient Black students ridiculed and suppressed by their peers as selling out and becoming Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas. Where high achievers dress normally and speak in clear, standard English.]
UC officials have tried to increase campus diversity by admitting the top 9 percent of graduates from each high school, conducting a "holistic review" of applications that decreases the weight of standardized test scores and eliminating the requirement to take SAT subject exams.
[Good or bad, the SAT was a standardized test. But we cannot have any test that highlights the failure of the unionized educational system under the progressive socialist democrats. We cannot even test teachers for subject matter knowledge or teaching ability. And, giving teachers tenure after a few years is tantamount to institutionalizing the mediocrity found in unions that promote by seniority rather than merit.]
Source: California Affirmative Action: Campus Diversity Suffers Under Race-Blind Policies. .
The corrupt progressive socialist democrats will stop at nothing to achieve their nefarious ends …
SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 5 – REPEAL PROPOSITION 209 PROVISIONS
Democrats in the California Senate used their two-thirds supermajority Thursday to pass a measure that would ask voters if they want to repeal the state's ban on race- and gender-based preferences in government hiring and contracting and university admissions.
With the bare minimum number of votes needed - 27 - the upper house passed and sent to the Assembly Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, which would ask voters if they want to repeal provisions that became law 18 years ago with the passage of Proposition 209.
Read more at: Senate passes measure asking voters to repeal Prop. 209
What the Amendment 5 says …
SUBJECT …
Public education: student recruitment and selection
DESCRIPTION …
Existing law declares the Legislature's intent that, in developing undergraduate and graduate admissions criteria, the governing boards of the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) develop processes that strive to be fair and easily understandable, and consult broadly with California's diverse ethnic and cultural communities.
Existing lawdeclares the intent of the Legislature that the UC and the CSU seek to enroll a student body that meets high academic standards and reflects the cultural, racial, geographic, economic, and social diversity of California.
This constitutional amendmentproposes to place before the voters an amendment to the California Constitution that:
- Deletes the specific provisions implemented through the enactment of Proposition 209 that prohibit the State from granting preferential treatment to individuals or groups on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, in the operation of public education.
- Deletes the University of California (UC) and the public school system from the definition of the "State" under Section 31 of Article 1, thereby repealing the application of the provisions of Proposition 209 to those entities.
- Makes a number of nonsubstantive technical changes.
Source: Bill Analysis – State Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments
Bottom line …
The progressive socialist democrats and their special interest unions have destroyed education and turned exceptionalism into socialism. A clear and present danger to the welfare of America and all Americans. We do not progress by restricting the best and brightest in order to move the worst and dumbest a faction of a notch higher in a delusional world. We need to throw these progressive socialist democrats out of office before the State of California, and America, reaches the tipping point where we become a cross-bred nation between the politics of France and the achievements of Mexico.
Call me any name you want, but try to prove me wrong? Show me the real reason for progressive socialist democrats attempting to destroy charter schools in underprivileged areas? Explain to me why the discipline of the Catholic and Christian schools produces more high-achievement students? Show me why school uniforms rather than gang-wear and cultural dress should not be demanded to eliminate hooliganism?
“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words
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