Posted on 02/16/2024 10:42:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A bill making its way through the California legislature could, if approved, pave the way for free college tuition for black students and other perceived marginalized communities.
ACA-7 passed the state Assembly in September and sits before the Democrat-controlled Senate. If approved there, it would be put before voters this November.
The bill would effectively allow the governor to circumvent the state’s longstanding ban on racial preferences first passed by a majority of voters in 1996 with Proposition 209 and reaffirmed in a 2020 referendum.
The measure would allow the governor to use the state’s coffers to fund research-based or culturally specific programs if they increase the “life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.”
Calif. Assemblymember Corey Jackson, who sponsored the bill, stated in a news release his proposal would address “systemic disparities” and “create positive change and improve outcomes for those disproportionately affected by systemic racism and discrimination.”
But in practical terms, it could pave the way for free tuition for black students and other perceived marginalized communities, said Gail Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor who leads the No on ACA-7 effort.
She said in an interview with The College Fix the measure is touted as a way to “decrease poverty among particular groups,” and it would give the governor the power to exempt certain groups from state laws outlawing racial preferences if a study shows the exemption would help.
“They have worded it as if it’s a small exemption,” said Heriot, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
“It actually is a huge exemption.”
The measure cannot overcome the recent Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action, but it could, for example, be used to propose racial preferences for financial aid or faculty hiring, she said.
Other possible exemptions could be made for public contracting and employment.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, William McGurn argued the new bill shows “the lesson the advocates of state-sponsored discrimination have taken from their defeat is that if at first you don’t succeed, try something sneakier.”
The Orange County Register editorial board has also come out against the bill.
“We urge the Senate to turn down ACA 7,” the board stated in its Jan. 9 editorial.
“The Legislature has more important things to do, such as dealing with a $68 billion budget deficit, than foisting on voters an initiative that would be defeated, or thrown out in court.”
A petition launched by the No on ACA-7 group argues that if it becomes law, “present and future governors will be able to make as many exceptions as they like, so long as they can find ‘research’ that says it’s okay to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, etc.”
"... And other perceived marginalized communities"
How is a community deemed "marginalized"?
That there....blatant inequity and racism, at taxpayer expense.
They don’t need a college degree. They can just steal what they need. They have earned everything they steal as “reparations.”
“and other perceived marginalized communities”
Which means all of Mexico and of course the sacred homosycotics.
DISCRIMINATION
Free college is too late. The kids need to be taught the basics right from the beginning of K-12. Part of this requires the help of the parents, which is a lost cause in many cases.
THIS ‘GOVERNOR’ WANT TO BE US PRESIDENT-—
THINK THAT OVER
Yes, sadly.
Revolution by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
… You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re all doing what we can
… But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is, brother, you have to wait
You better free your mind instead
… If you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.
They are deliberately creating hatred and they know it and welcome it
California used to offer free college tuition at public universities and colleges to all in-state residents. Yes there were ‘incidental fees’ and you had to pay for books, housing, etc.
Governor Reagan worked to end it on the grounds that it wasn’t right for average workers without the benefits of degrees to have to pay through their taxes for something that didn’t benefit them, but rather someone else.
But today, California is happy with the concept of taxing normal white taxpayers to provide free tuition for non white and alphabet people’s tuition. If they are that worried about costs holding people back,how about going back to the system in place in post-war California.
No more government funding, no more government loans for higher education. Let them fund their own version of the world they want.
It is time to get the DNC out of the classroom. Time to get the Government out of the classroom. Time to get the sexual deviants out of the classroom.
They should do that again.
Offering it only to Black students is unconstitutional.
Who feels like a wigger? Minorities, especially blacks, have gone from being a protected class to become our masters and they are not going to be kind.
You have to laugh:
"...research-based or culturally specific programs if they increase the “life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.”"Ima gunna major inna racial grievance studies to get me outta poverty."
That's the ticket.
Anti white hate is the new religion in California.
Divide & Govern template. Color revolution brought to us by enemies domestic.
Isn't reading a sign of white supremacy?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4217867/posts
why college if they don't read?
finger painting class?
That typical picture of Gavin shows his inner arrogance and need for people to say to him, as his parents did when he was a toddler: “You are just so cute, you little darling, you.”💞💋
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