Backlash over affirmative-action bill surfaces in Legislature, election

Sacramento Bee ^ | Apr. 8, 2014 | Laurel Rosenhall and Jeremy B. White

[artichokegrower]

Weeks after some Asian American lawmakers killed a measure to restore affirmative action in California’s public colleges by withdrawing their support, backlash from Democrats who supported the effort is surfacing in the Capitol and on the campaign trail.

[artichokegrower]

Repercussions of the Legislature’s decision last month to shelve Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 appear to be pitting some African American and Latino Democrats against their Asian American colleagues

Welcome to the Balkins

[headstamp 2]

Exactly. The coalition of the aggrieved.

[sportutegrl]

Will Democrats ever learn that in order to ‘give’ any group a special privilege, they must first take it from someone else.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

In the People’s Republic of California, it’s the whites who should be getting affirmative action......they’re the ones with minority status these days.

[GOPJ]

Democrats and their shills in the MSM are always telling Republicans they need to go after ‘the minority’ vote. Well, they might have a point. We need to go after the Asian American vote...

[fella]

The true “American Dream” is that all are treated equally before the law, no special privilege for any person or group, that was the driving force behind our Revolution. Inequality in the law is the great demon that our nation has strived against since before it’s inception. None should be held as special but all should be held as equal no matter what the reasoning.

The ideal of equality within a republic has been perverted by the mob rule of democracy to bring us back to the same style of hereditary inequality (but now based on race) that we had before 1775.

[latina4dubya]

good! i hope they all stop supporting and voting for each other’s stupid bills... this is good news!

[Navy Patriot]

Negro DemoRat plantation pecking order politics.

[oldenuff2no]

Anyone who really wants to know what is and has been going on with this should read what Ward Connerly has to say about it.

Do a search and educate yourself. His books and articles are easy to read and informative.

[Teacher317]

California’s university minority-assistance and admissions policies openly discriminate against Asians. It isn’t about helping minority groups. It is about maintaining the power to pick winners and losers, and pretending to care about those who are “prevented” from succeeding is a popular story to sell to low-information voters.