The University of California systematically discriminates based on race in college admissions, by having low admissions standards for students from overwhelmingly Hispanic or black schools, who are admitted with mediocre grades, while rejecting students from predominantly white and Asian schools who have much higher grades and excellent test scores. The university’s discrimination against students from heavily Asian high schools is particularly harsh. The University of California also treats black applicants from a particular high school better than white and Asian applicants from that high school.
Using race-based proxies for admission, as the University of California does, violates Supreme Court rulings against using close proxies for race, such as Gomillion v. Lightfoot. Discriminating against students based on the racial composition of their high school, as the university does, violates federal appeals court rulings against treating people worse because they come from a place where people of particular races predominate (an example of such a court ruling is Walker v. City of Mesquite (1999), which said it is generally illegal to treat people worse because they are in predominantly white zip codes).
It also violates Article I, Section 31 of the California Constitution, which states that “The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
But if you oppose this unlawful racial discrimination, leftists will accuse you of “racial repression”:
University of California Los Angeles law students protested against a professor who opposes race-based college admissions, describing his position as “racist repression” at a rally Thursday on campus.
The protest targeted law Professor Richard Sander who, along with a group of students and parents, recently filed a lawsuit alleging the University of California is discriminating against white and Asian American students in its admissions process, the Daily Bruin reports.
“What we’re doing is essentially rejecting Richard Sander and his position on campus as well as all that stands behind that – all of the racist repression,” law student Noah Massillon told the student newspaper.
The UCLA Black Law Students Association and other student groups organized the protest.
Students held signs that named Richard and mentioned “diversity” and “discrimination,” the student newspaper reports:
The students chanted, “Whose University? Our University,” and, “When we stand up, we get power. When we get power, they get scared.”
Malik Marshall, a law student who led the rally, said in a speech that California passed Proposition 209 – which made affirmative action illegal in the college admissions process – to “erase” Black students. …
The professor is part of the group Students Against Racial Discrimination, which filed a lawsuit against the University of California system earlier this year….The group includes Republicans, Democrats, and independent students, parents, academics, and citizens. In their lawsuit, they allege the public university’s admissions process gives “discriminatory preferences to non-Asian racial minorities.”
The UC system allows “applicants with inferior academic credentials to obtain admission at the expense of rejected candidates with better academic credentials,” the lawsuit alleges.
