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发帖数: 3888 | 1 谢谢各位支持
An Open Letter Against SCA5 – A Bill That Legalizes Racial Discrimination
Just before Christmas in 2012, California State Senator Ed Hernandez
introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 (SCA5). This bill aims to
remove public education from California Constitution’s protection against
racial discrimination. In other words, SCA5 would allow deciding students’
right to education based on their skin color.
As of February, 2014, SCA5 has reached the State Assembly for vote. If
passed, and voted through a referendum into law, SCA5 would allow
universities, community colleges, and even K-12 schools to discriminate
against students based on their race alone – Yes, this is Year 2014, and we
have a bill that aims to bring back racial discrimination into the very
places where we educate our next generation.
SCA5 is blatant racial discrimination. It would give preferential treatment
based on race, and instill into young minds that we are unequal. Our
children would have to learn that people have unequal opportunities for no
reason other than the color of their skin.
SCA5 is a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, allowing
racial discrimination in school and college admissions is a violation of
the Equal Protection clause. It will also open a floodgate of litigation,
wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.
SCA5 puts California’s future in jeopardy. It would turn California’s
most qualified students away from our public schools and universities to
other states. It would in turn undermine our education system, and
compromise the California competitiveness. Our companies would also be
increasingly reliant on out-of-state or even foreign talent.
To be sure, our students do not face a level playing field. Some need help
more than others. However, judging them by their color is not the solution.
It only creates more inequality than it attempts to address. For example,
an Asian American student has less than 1/3 of the chance of getting into
the same college as a non-Asian student with the same qualifications, even
if that Asian student came from an extremely difficult background. SCA5 is
intended to overlook such individual circumstances, and to exacerbate the
racial inequality.
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed that his children would not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. We
have fought hard against the Jim Crow laws and come a long way. Today, in
2014, SCA5 intends to reverse all that we have gained. SCA5 is racism in
disguise. It is against civil rights. It is against the ideals on which
this nation was founded. For our children to live in an equal and prejudice
-free California, we must stop SCA5 now.
United Asian Americans for Activism (UAAFA)
www.UAAFA.org | c**s
发帖数: 3796 | | o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | | n***l
发帖数: 143 | | Q***k
发帖数: 1419 | 5 Re
【在 c**d 的大作中提到】
: 谢谢各位支持
: An Open Letter Against SCA5 – A Bill That Legalizes Racial Discrimination
: Just before Christmas in 2012, California State Senator Ed Hernandez
: introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 (SCA5). This bill aims to
: remove public education from California Constitution’s protection against
: racial discrimination. In other words, SCA5 would allow deciding students’
: right to education based on their skin color.
: As of February, 2014, SCA5 has reached the State Assembly for vote. If
: passed, and voted through a referendum into law, SCA5 would allow
: universities, community colleges, and even K-12 schools to discriminate
| s**x
发帖数: 7506 | 6 support. let's make this being heard by more people. | T******g
发帖数: 21328 | | c***e
发帖数: 542 | 8 Can we also make a letter (both in Chinese and English) to instruct people
what to do. So people can spread both
letters to their friends, neighbors, etc., not just Chinese. | L******t
发帖数: 1985 | 9 Can we forward this letter to Vietnamese, Indians etc?
【在 c**d 的大作中提到】
: 谢谢各位支持
: An Open Letter Against SCA5 – A Bill That Legalizes Racial Discrimination
: Just before Christmas in 2012, California State Senator Ed Hernandez
: introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 (SCA5). This bill aims to
: remove public education from California Constitution’s protection against
: racial discrimination. In other words, SCA5 would allow deciding students’
: right to education based on their skin color.
: As of February, 2014, SCA5 has reached the State Assembly for vote. If
: passed, and voted through a referendum into law, SCA5 would allow
: universities, community colleges, and even K-12 schools to discriminate
| T******g
发帖数: 21328 | 10 why not
【在 L******t 的大作中提到】
: Can we forward this letter to Vietnamese, Indians etc?
| | | c**d
发帖数: 3888 | 11 Open letter. Please distribute freely. Thanks!
【在 L******t 的大作中提到】
: Can we forward this letter to Vietnamese, Indians etc?
| c**d
发帖数: 3888 | 12 http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t2/SanFrancisco/34111647.html
目前没有英文版。非华裔的community，也有他们自己的组织。我们正在与其他族裔的
组织探索合作
【在 c***e 的大作中提到】
: Can we also make a letter (both in Chinese and English) to instruct people
: what to do. So people can spread both
: letters to their friends, neighbors, etc., not just Chinese.
| b******n
发帖数: 383 | | b******n
发帖数: 383 | 14 这个信有除了MITBBS之外正式的页面link吗？想link到facebook上。 | b******n
发帖数: 383 | 15 能把这个letter和actionable item放在一起做一个网页吗，让大家可以开始转发。可
以在facebook和google上做广告，我自己都可以做，pay by click，不用几个钱，自己
在facebook account上做很容易。 | c***e
发帖数: 542 | 16 This will be very helpful, put everything under one link.
【在 b******n 的大作中提到】
: 能把这个letter和actionable item放在一起做一个网页吗，让大家可以开始转发。可
: 以在facebook和google上做广告，我自己都可以做，pay by click，不用几个钱，自己
: 在facebook account上做很容易。
| c******a
发帖数: 4400 | 17 请问UAAFA组织在哪里，下一步准备如何行动？
非常好，支持UAAFA。但是希望能找到更多的宣传口。mitbbs毕竟只是新移民，人少，
而且很多还不是公民。什么样的宣传口能reach到更多的亚裔选民呢？ | h*******a
发帖数: 573 | | m*1
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