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Calif race-based admissions law challenged anew
AP via Oakland Tribune ^ | 2/16/10

Posted on 02/16/2010 7:06:44 PM PST by SmithL

SAN FRANCISCO—A pro-affirmative action group is renewing efforts to overturn the California law that prohibits public universities from considering race in student admissions.

Lawyers for Michigan-based By Any Means Necessary filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Oakland. It challenges the constitutionality of the ballot measure approved by the state's voters in 1996.

(Excerpt) Read more at insidebayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; racism

1 posted on 02/16/2010 7:06:44 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Of course its unconstitutional, its right in article 1 in plain unambigous language...”Thou shalt judge not by content of character, but by color of skin”


2 posted on 02/16/2010 7:12:40 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: SmithL

...so they want to end racism by dividing us all in to groups and then giving “preferences” to groups they like?

Yeah that makes sense....


3 posted on 02/16/2010 7:15:28 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: SmithL
A pro-affirmative anti-white action group is renewing efforts to overturn the California law that prohibits public universities from considering race in student admissions.
4 posted on 02/16/2010 7:22:48 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Anti-white, and anti-Asian. “Affirmative action” was hurting Asians worse than whites in CA before it was repealed.


5 posted on 02/16/2010 7:24:23 PM PST by nj26 (Say NO to Socialism! Government is NOT the Answer.)
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To: SmithL
Lawyers for Michigan-based By Any Means Necessary

So where do these folks get their financing for these suits?

6 posted on 02/16/2010 7:25:12 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: umgud

My guess would be the King of Divisiveness - George Soros.


7 posted on 02/16/2010 7:33:10 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: SmithL
Liberals can't let go of their obsession with race in this country.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

8 posted on 02/16/2010 7:41:27 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: nj26

Are Asians Minorities?


9 posted on 02/16/2010 7:53:38 PM PST by John Will
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To: SmithL

10 posted on 02/16/2010 8:23:42 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: umgud

In Big Momma Liberal America its the enablers who need to be punished.


11 posted on 02/17/2010 7:12:46 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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