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A Change.org petition organized online by a group opposed to racial preferences in California is satirically demanding that professional sports teams in the state allocate 15 percent of their roster spots to Asians.
The petition, which says that would make Asian representation on the teams proportional to California’s Asian population, as of Monday has collected more than 4,300 signatures.
The petition was organized by Jason Xu (no relation to the author), a member of the No on 16 campaign, which was started to oppose California Proposition 16, a ballot measure that would repeal Proposition 209, California’s nondiscrimination ordinance passed in 1996.
Proposition 209 added the following language to the state’s constitution:
"The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin."
Proposition 16 would legalize racial preferences for what its backers call “underrepresented minorities” (that is, blacks and Hispanics) in college admissions, government hiring, and public contracting, which is currently banned under Proposition 209.
The petition was spawned by a recent San Francisco Chronicle article that stated that the Bay Area’s seven professional sports teams have all lined up to endorse Proposition 16. The NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors are among those teams.
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