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"The state shall not classify any individual by race, ethnicity, color or national origin in the operation of public education, public contracting or public employment."
RPI’s MISSION STATEMENT
Passage of RPI will do many things:
save our state budget over $10 million, end government’s preferential treatment based on race, and junk a 17th-century racial classification system that has no place in 21st-century America.
But most importantly, RPI’s passage will signal America’s first step towards a color-blind society. For the full text of the Initiative, click here. The California Constitution forbids state government from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any citizen based on race. Therefore, since government has no reason to classify persons by race, why should it even ask us for the data? Like religion, marital status or sexual orientation, race should become a private matter that is no business of government’s.
Think how refreshing it would be to throw out the entire system of checking little boxes. As the most ethnically diverse state in the Union, California has the most to gain by compelling its government to treat all citizens equally and without regard to race.
The latest U.S. Census divides Americans into a whopping 126 different ethnic/racial categories. How many categories should Californians put up with? SOME OF OUR ENDORSERS:
Shelby Steele
George Will
Thomas Sowell
Walter Williams
Ward Connerly |
