[artichokegrower]

"As lifelong advocates for the Asian-American and other communities, we would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our children,” said Sens. Ted Lieu, Carol Liu and Leland Yee, in a letter last week to Assembly Speaker John Perez

Could you imagine the reaction if some white California legislators made a similar statement?

[Red Badger]

Birds of a feather flock together....................

[MrB]

Well, they went to all that effort, and that’s not fair.

What about all those families that can’t [won’t] go to all that effort? Don’t they deserve good schools too?

/libthink

[yldstrk]

One thing I remember from law school admissions was it was strictly a numbers game, no interview, a simple formula: your LSAT score and your grade point average from college then they put you on a list and picked the top 75. If someone turned them down, they went to number 76. No race card, no legacies.

[yldstrk]

Same with the finals, you took a test under a number, the professor didn’t know if you were black or white, male or female, your name your initials, nothing.

[latina4dubya]

Likewise, this quota debate misses a more important focus, which should be on helping Latino, African American and other students get the quality education they need to qualify for the best schools on their own.

and in the words of our good friend, William Shakespeare via Hamelet, "aye, there's the rub."

[DouglasKC]

That’s the thing...it’s a no-brainer that it’s okay to deprive some high achieving white kid based on quotas. But try to go there and gee all of a sudden you’re a racist.

[Organic Panic]

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[Junk Silver]

San Diego Democratic Sen. Ben Hueso said in published reports that “Prop. 209 creates a barrier for people of color to access higher education.”

So he’s saying that basing college admission on academic ability creates a barrier for people of color? He sounds like a White Supremacist.

[PoloSec]

"we settled in a city with a majority Asian-American population."

Now that was very smart, not only will the education be better, it will most likely be much safer as well.

Turning a lemon into lemonade...better school, better neighborhood to live in.