Today we are pleased to feature a guest commentary from former Unversity of California Regent and Proposition 209 author Ward Connerly. We asked Mr. Connerly to comment on news yesterday that that a committee of the University of California Board of Regents has accepted a report calling on more the student population of the U.C. system too be more ethnically and racially diverse…
Californians, beware!
The Board of Regents of the University of California (UC) has unanimously endorsed a report that proposes a significantly more aggressive approach to creating “diversity” in the faculty and student body of UC. What this all means is that the entire UC system, including all of its campuses, will now be doing everything they possibly can to circumvent Proposition 209 – a ballot initiative approved by the California electorate on November 5, 1996, by a margin of 55-45, to end “preferential treatment” on the basis of race, gender and ethnic background. And, all of this will be done with the implicit blessing of the governing board of the institution – the Regents.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 am
Right on, Ward! But the problem isn’t confined to the Regents’ Boardroom – it extends within the Horseshoe to the appointment of judges, those who will ultimately rule on whether Prop. 209 – i.e., the law – is being followed or not. The idea that people will lose confidence in and respect for our legal system because “the bench doesn’t reflect California’s diversity” (I apologize for parroting the cliche to make my point) is as racist as it is irrelevant. If Californians abandon the rule of law it will be because those in the position of enforcing it failed to do so themselves.