Posted on 09/10/2020 2:47:31 PM PDT by karpov
California voters made a wise decision in 1996 when they adopted Proposition 209, banning state government from favoring some people over others on account of their race.
No state should allow officials to treat anyone as more, or less, valuable than others.
But the Proposition 16 campaign is underway to repeal Prop. 209 and allow the government to once again act as though, to paraphrase George Orwell in “Animal Farm”, all citizens are equal, but some citizens are more equal than others.
This campaign is bolstered by deceptive claims, such as made in a new UC Berkeley study.
The study purports to find that Prop. 209’s ban on racial preferences reduced Black and Latino enrollment in the University of California system, thereby driving down the later earnings of those students who attended other colleges.
There is good reason to doubt that claim.
An American Enterprise Institute study published in June — “Does attending a more selective college equal a bigger paycheck?” — concluded that it does not. The large data set the authors surveyed led them to find that students who graduated from “highly selective” colleges had average earnings less than 10% higher than those who graduated from less selective and open admissions schools by the time they’d been working eight to 10 years.
That makes perfect sense: Workers are compensated for their productivity, not for their college pedigrees.
Therefore, those who think that putting more Black and Latino students through UC system schools (instead of California State University and junior colleges) will do much to equalize the earnings of those groups with whites and Asians are wrong.
The study also found that even the small benefit of graduating from prestige colleges has been decreasing. Again, that makes sense: Employers focus more on the skills that their employees develop
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
So Prop. 16 would override the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment?
The soft bigotry of low expectations, about that Systemic Racism they keep talking about, here it is, Rich White Liberals in Action
Bookmark.
.......... In other words .... Bring .... “Affirmative Action” ... Back because minorities can’t compete with other ethnicities ......
Wow
Can’t believe these guys came out against this...
Hell froze over?
THE POSTER BOY PORTLAND MAYOR SHOULD BE DEPICTED ON THE BILL WITH HIS A## OF FIRE RUNNING FROM THE MOB
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