The race-preference die-hards of the University of California

The opening of Heather Mac Donald’s new article in City Journal, “Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead”:

In 1996, Californians voted to ban race and gender preferences in government and education. Ten years later, the chancellor of the state-funded University of California at Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, announced a new Vice Chancellorship for Equity and Inclusion, charged with making Berkeley more “inclusive” and “less hostile” to “underrepresented minority … groups.” This move is just the latest expression of the University of California’s unrelenting resistance to the 1996 voter initiative, in every way possible short of patent violation. Stasi apparatchiks disappeared more meekly after the Soviet Empire’s collapse than California’s race commissars have retreated after voters tried to oust their preference regime.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 30, 2007 06:45 PM | Send