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To Higher Education. Opponents sta 5 tried to acquaint this measure s with affirmative quo toes. And its not about quo toes which i dont think any of us have supported and the state states that quo toes are unconstitutional. We need to bring people together on this issue, to educate our communities that diversity for all helps us all. We simultaneously need to have a conversation about how to deliver on the broader problem on the Higher Education for our diverse community. As we move forward, we have to Work Together to build support for what will be a challenging conversation. Thank you, supervisor breed. Thank you. I appreciate your comments, president chiu, and supervisor campos. As you know this is extremely important and the problem i have with affirmative action is even the mention of quota. Its clear i outlined ....
Really a testament to what the elimination of affirmative action has brought not not just at the education level, but through contracting throughout public agencies, and i think it is really clear that when we talk about affirmative action, its not about quotas. Its about being able to consider race when you have applicants of equal credentials. If you have applicants of equal credentials you should be able to consider race in the admission because we know that diversity is an important part, actually, an essential part of our educational setting. It has been a real testament today to what we see at our public universities, i think bringing back affirmative action would play an Important Role to fulfilling the diversity of our state. Thank you. Before we go to supervisor compass. Can we get a second. Seconded by supervisor wiener. Supervisor campos. He think what i thought was really important about this resolution is that i do th ....
Its clear i outlined that in the resolution and that was upheld in the court system and at that time it was made clear that quota and affirmative action are two Different Things and i think youre right, we need to bring our communities together and make it clear because this is really challenging. There are universities that are truly what i would not consider diverse. One of the comments mentioned to me by the person who is in charge of the gospel choir at uc davis, theyre diverse and mostly African Americans but still a very diverse fun experience for all of us and now theres, i think, one African American in the gospel choir at uc davis. That shows us that theres a real problem in our University Systems and its important that we take a strong stance be ....
Around quota need to be made, but we need to make a sharp distinction, that affirmative action and quota are two different things. He i wont go into the explanation and i talked about it last week. This opened up a door for discussion and i appreciate the support from you all today to move forward and send a positive united message to our state legislature that we dont want to see politics play a negative role in this discussion. We want inclusion, we want to make sure our universities are diverse and we have a seat at the desk and we want to move forward and continue the dialogue with our communities throughout San Francisco and through the state of california. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I think im entering this conversation a little late, but i just wanted to support the comments that were made by supervisor breed. Many of us in this room posed proposition 209 when it came to the state ballot, i believe in 1997. I was ....
Sta 5 tried to acquaint this measure s with affirmative quo toes. And its not about quo toes which i dont think any of us have supported and the state states that quo toes are unconstitutional. We need to bring people together on this issue, to educate our communities that diversity for all helps us all. We simultaneously need to have a conversation about how to deliver on the broader problem on the Higher Education for our diverse community. As we move forward, we have to Work Together to build support for what will be a challenging conversation. Thank you, supervisor breed. Thank you. I appreciate your comments, president chiu, and supervisor campos. As you know this is extremely important and the problem i have with affirmative action is even the mention of quota. Its clear i outlined that in the resolution and that was upheld in the court system and at that time it was m ....