In 1996, the state of California made a massive progress towards equality before law. It amended its constitution to include Article I, Section 31 (known as proposal 209), providing that the state and local governments will not discriminate against any person or group based on breed, gender, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, or public contract operations, or will not provide preference treatment. ,
Prop. 209 is a classic manifestation of the eradicating Frederick Douglas’ approach, regardless of the race, “the right to freedom, for education, and the common race of life has a similar chance with all other men and in search of happiness.” Unfortunately, a California, a California, an ideal with racial discrimination, has been attacked since. After the adoption of 209. Those who support the use of the race in hiring and education have tried to cancel the propus several times in 2020 recently. They failed every time.
These failures have not stopped opponents of equality under law. 2023 saw a new attempt to inject the use of racial preferences in the decisions of the Government of California. Assembly Constitutional Amendment Number 7- Assembly is such a subtitle at the Government of California, launched by Kori Jackson to restore racial discrimination. Instead of canceling only propus 209, the ACA 7 allows the state to create programs for specific groups based on the “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized gender, gender, or sexual ornaments” unless the program “research-related, or research-informing” and governor approved.
There is no “exception” for ACA 7 Prop 209. It runs a freight train train through its heart, providing equality for people of all California.
First, an exception allowance for those programs that are “research-based, or research-informed” can enable racial discrimination on the basis of junk science. Data fraud and research occurs in dishonest academia and can be easily done in commissioned studies by a government agency. ACA 7 Slapdash encourages discrimination on the basis of ideological inspired research. This will not be the first time a government agency tried to use a poor study to justify discrimination. Regardless, the figures are not justified for the Government of California for racial discrimination against its citizens.
The Supreme Court recently explained that the race can only be used to measure the violation of the Constitution. For example, after decades of state-contans, it was constitutional for integrated schools for federal courts. But the proposal 209 already allows for race-based tasks that are necessary to follow the constitution. A “statistical-based” discrimination is not only morally bankrupt to allow the discrimination logic, but it will violate the guarantee of the US Constitution that every citizen deserves “equal protection of laws”.
Second, the ACA7 effectively enables the governor of California to create an exception to a whispering. Prop. 209 exists to protect the people of California from their government – it prevents “all government instruments” from discriminating.
ACA 7 will eradicate this security by enabling future governors, Republican or Democrats, to provide benefits to a favorite racial group – white, black, Asian, or His Hapnic – “For the purpose of increasing or exiting the members of that group members, to increase the life expectancy of members of that group members. Unilaterally, that right can be forgiven with a stroke of a pen.
The dangerous decision of the California assembly to pass the ACA 7 means that it now moves to the Senate. Should die there. No one in California should face racial discrimination as the Governor decides to favor a particular racial group based on the trumped data.
As Frederick Douglas recognized, the principles of equality from the declaration of freedom are “savings principles”. All Americans “[s]According to those principles, on all occasions, at all places, against all enemies and whatever cost them right for them. California leaders should focus on those words and dismiss the ACA 7 attack on the Bedrock American theory of equality for all.
Jack Brown Pacific Legal Foundation is a lawyer in the Public Interest Law firm, which defends the freedom of Americans against the government’s overache.