we heard calvin yang, an asian american student at cal, praising this decision, saying he believes diversity is very important for education. however, affirmative action is a well-intentioned idea that is poorly executed in reality, he said. how do you ensure diversity without affirmative action if that is agreed upon it seems by so many people that it s important? first off we should realize that this supreme court decision only says that the use of race by the government is unconstitutional. you can have all kinds of other diversity if you want, and we have it at the university of california. here racial preferences have been barred since prop 209 in the mid 1990s, yet today we admitted our most racially diverse class. what the court s opinion says is that you can t use race, that our constitution is colorblind. and i have to say i really disagree with the last guest when he was saying the court is
tanking this isn t something that all of a sudden it was fine. it tanked when you were looking at the admittance rates for black and hispanic students. that s right. but one thing we should also remember is why is it the case that we don t think or some people think a college admissions process is somehow wrong if the student population doesn t exactly match the racial demographics of a population? why is it at all surprising that you might have different numbers of races in a college class just like you have different numbers of races in other forms of life like sports or business, religion. we see racial voting patterns between democrats and republicans are very different based on race. and this is one thing the court stressed educators, professors, administrators, they haven t explained to the court why you need to have that exact
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