Is this just another workaround for the SCOTUS ruling on Affirmative Action?Minding the Campus reports:
California’s Insanity—Legislators Push Admission Priority for Descendants of SlaveryRace peddlers are at the scheme of reparations again. This time, they are playing the game in higher education, hoping to get progressive government agencies to legislate racial preferences in college admissions. Will they succeed?California Assemblyman Isaac Bryan of Los Angeles promotes educational benefits for descendants of slaves, whom the state lawmaker says should receive admission priority from California’s public and private universities. Asm. Bryan, incoming vice chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, believes enacting legislation for such preferences is a “moral responsibility,” necessary for addressing racial inequality and systemic injustices. On December 2, Bryan introduced Assembly Bill No. 7 (AB7) in the California State Legislature, which proposes adding the following paragraph to the state’s education code:
[T]he California State University, the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions may consider providing a preference in admissions to an applicant who is a descendant of slavery, as defined, to the extent it does not conflict with federal law.
A junior state legislator who was not well known by the public until now, Bryan received national press for pushing forward reparations amidst disappointments befallen on the movement. He told the Associated Press that California must “rectify … and heal that harm” from “perpetuating the inequalities that arose from slavery.” In this sense, the effort to provide admissions preferences for descendants of slaves goes beyond cash reparations. It is “a much bigger process” about repairing the inequality. Just to rub it in, Bryan also said his measure is partly a response to Trump’s war on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs.
AB 7 is sponsored by many “A-list” California Democrats, including Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, wife of the State Attorney General Rob Bonta, and State Senator Akilah Weber, daughter of the California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. The entire bill consists of three short paragraphs, two of which merely restate existing state laws. In a move that can be interpreted almost as an insult, the proposal notes that the California Constitution prohibits racial preferences in public education, as spelled out in Proposition 209, approved by over 55 percent of the electorate first in 1996 and defended by 57 percent of California voters in 2020.
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