[American Thinker] California's far-left state legislature has found the coronavirus a useful crisis indeed and isn't letting it go to waste.Now they've 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 disparent COVID-19 caseloads among black and Latino groups compared to others is proof 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.
Asian-Americans are seeing right through it, and as with other measures, know who's really targeted.
Asian-Americans have launched a change.org petition to try to persuade the state's legislative overlords to not pass this measure and at last count, they've got 26,000 signatures.