Comments on: Constitutional amendment seeks to revoke Prop. 209 racial preferences ban

By: R Davis

R Davis — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:29:23 +0000

CA legislators are among the most corrupt in the nation and so shouldn’t be allowed to second guess the people’s referendum to end racism that they’re not competent to judge; Hernandez’s evil, racist bigotry is disgusting.

By: R Davis

R Davis — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:25:40 +0000

Hernandez and his corrupt pro-“affirmative action” cabal are evil racist bigots, paid to ruin the lives of their constituents by insuring they fail in schools where they’re not equipped to function without an affirmative action handicap/crutch, spinning their racism to make its irrefutable, evil bigotry looks good. We fought the Civil War against such vile racism so it’s sick to see that sick kind raise ugly heads yet again and lie about what they’re doing.

By: Idontgetit

Idontgetit — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:11:09 +0000

Why don’t these politicians go find something else to go after. I don’t care what skin color you are, that should NEVER be a factor in admissions to colleges or obtaining a job. It’s something that you can’t change, period. Just because you’re born a certain color shouldn’t give you preference on admissions to college. Oh you were born black? I guess you can have a C average and get into UCI over that asian kid who had an A average. Now if he wanted to go after helping students out from lower socio-economic upbringings that’s another thing. But wait, we already have that don’t we? They’re called federal/state grants and scholarships.

By: webattorney

webattorney — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:52:16 +0000

This is going to lead to “dumbing down” of all CA public universities and public colleges. Come on Latinos, you have to compete like the rest of us. Let’s call a spade for what it is; if they want more of certain minorities to be able to attend CA public colleges, then they should allow CA universities to set aside certain number of spots and just give these spots to Latinos and Afro-Americans. I am going to vote agains this Bill if it ever comes before voters.

By: Bystander

Bystander — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:26:15 +0000

This makes no sense its diversity in the wrong direction, it’s as ridiculous as keeping a quota on African American Students in college sports team, with each team reflecting the population, and based on CA pop in the article; only 1 African American per a team, 2 Asians, 4 Caucasians, and 4 Lations on a squad of 11. It also ignores the “Asian Myth” and its going to hurt the tons of other Asian subgroups that have trouble getting into college. If passes this is what I see happening. It will dumbdown the UC and CSU education system, Asian enrollment in private instituions will increase, and worst of all increase the gap between the top tier private institutions (Harvard, Princeton and etc) even further from the public education system. The rich will remain better educated while everyone else is balanced out at average. Asians dominate the education system, just like African American’s dominate the NBA. Research and focus should be on why Latinos aren’t getting enrolled as much as Asian instead of putting Latinos on a VIP list.

By: Molly C

Molly C — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:06:14 +0000

We came from a country where we have seen the impact of minority preferences, quotas etc. In India, while the approach was to ensure one section of population that was denied all rights makes progress, it has however reached a point where there is reservation for each and every section of society. The only ones who dont are the normal folks who are in neither of the reserved sections.

Let us not make the mistake of reigniting the preference based, race, gender, color, etc reservations or quotas. This is a backward step.

Molly

By: Evangeline Brabant

Evangeline Brabant — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:04:08 +0000

The reality is that even with lowered expectations for admission, and lowered expectations while in school, including free tutoring, weighted grades, and all other kinds of support, these people will flunk out. Meantime they have cost the taxpayers large sums of money, and taken up slots that should have been filled by high achievers. Time was in our country where we admired hard work and effort.

The under-qualified should indeed, be channeled to the Community College System to prepare themselves for entrance to a designer label school. That our community colleges are so crowded now is because there are plenty of non-blacks or Hispanics who seem to believe community college is a good way to start the road toward higher education.

Meantime, don’t forget the Dream Act and its guarantees of preferential treatment for illegals.

We should not be surprised about this effort to undo the wishes of the voters, this is the left in action and they have little concern for anything except their agenda. The Common Core is based on this very same egalitarian agneda, and by the time those who are now in early elementary school reach high school, no one will remember what it meant to be a high or middle achiever, since the Common Core is designed to bring everyone down to the level of the lowest performers. The final dumbing down of our country.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 01:38:10 +0000

If you take the top ten percent then the population will be mostly women and Asians.
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You worthless Teddy Sock Puppet! The top 10% will vary in race, and ethnicity, but not gender, according to the local population.

Geezzz Teddy

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:35:09 +0000

If you take the top ten percent then the population will be mostly women and Asians.

They study and follow the rules….

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:59 +0000

SCA 5 is just another chance to re-affirm race blind admissions.

They could just take the top 10% of every HS, like TX does, it is therefore more race blind and will get the minority numbers up because schools that have a majority of minorities will be 100% of the top 10% admitted.