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For progressives, Asian-American achievement is an embarrassment.

When we divide our education, media, and legislation based on race and other immutable identities, we become more vulnerable to hatred and self-hate.

San Francisco’s Board of Education voted unanimously last October to set aside longstanding merit-based admissions at Lowell High School for one year. This decision was allegedly due to the pandemic, but the board had a bigger target in mind. As Katy Grimes now reports in the California Globe, the b…

Three organizations that have for several months been raising concerns about the corrupt development of California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, today called on state officials to investigate further unethical and potentially illegal activities by the curriculum drafters. “We are writing to exp…

San Francisco’s controversial Board of Education voted this week to end merit-based admission to Lowell High School, a top academic high school, and the

On Feb. 3, the Biden administration dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that alleged the Ivy League school was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The Californians for Equal Rights (CFER) called the DOJ’s decision “unsubstantiated,” “a systematic roll back of civil rights protections,” and that it “has committed great injustice to the American people with its acquiescence to race preferences.”

Californians for Equal Rights is criticizing President Joe Biden’s choice for Deputy Secretary of Labor, who they say did not solve the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD) fraud problem.

The Irvine City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in city hiring and contracting. Frank Xu of CFER talks about the nature and implications of this resolution.

Research shows however that racial preference policies create a mismatch of academic qualifications between minorities receiving preferences and the rest of their entering class, and the academic disparities continue throughout college.

Prop. 16 was defeated, even by liberal California, 57.23% to 42.77%. Izumi noted that Prop. 16 was campaigned against and defeated largely by Asian Americans, who merely wanted to prevent public universities from discriminating against Asian applicants with higher scores, instead favoring lower-scoring minorities. But now they have to fight for this.

In a letter to the UC Board of Regents, CFER’s executive director, Wenyuan Wu argues that “Dropping empirically designed tests in UC’s process of selecting incoming students is a politicized and misguided attempt to cover up true causes behind achievement and opportunity gaps.”

For those ‘equity’ advocates, ‘equity’ is nothing more than a fashion accessory to make them look attractive, hiding the failures of Departments of Education to improve the academic outcomes of our most vulnerable students.” In California, Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, opposes the attack on gifted students as a “race to the bottom.”

It’s not just white students in the firing line, but high performing Asian-American children, too; is it a bold move in the name of racial fairness or just an anti-intellectual assault from the ideology of critical race theory?

CFER Honorary Chair and American Civil Rights Institute founder Ward Connerly sounds off on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’

In August 1996, at the height of a 6-million-dollar campaign coalition to preserve race-based affirmative action over against Proposition 209, Dr. Shirley Weber spoke at the Million Man March statewide conference organized by Dr. Manulana Karenga for a revolutionary agenda of black empowerment. At t…

Since California is a majority-minority state, they assumed passing Proposition 16 would be a snap. They need to get out more. They’ll find Californians cannot be so easily pigeonholed.

In 1996, Californians passed by a wide margin a citizens’ ballot initiative, the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), also known as Proposition 209, that disallowed use of race and sex preferences by state and local governments in hiring, public contracting, and admissions to public universiti…

Ward Connerly for fighting a winning battle once again, defeating affirmative action and Proposition 16. Proposition 16, on the November ballot, would have repealed Prop. 209 and divided Californians by making discrimination legal in the state. Connerly put together an amazing team creating Californians for Equal Rights.

Golden State voters — and especially immigrants — overwhelmingly rejected racial preferences.

Californians rejected racial preferences even more soundly this year than in 1996. Will the Supreme Court reverse itself next?

Proposition 16, the identitarian measure aimed at reviving race-based affirmative action in California, was crushed on the November ballot by 57.2 percent of voters (over 9.4 million votes).

A majority voted against repealing the state’s ban on affirmative action.

Democrats may need to rethink their strategy as the class complexities and competing desires of Latino and Asian-American demographic groups become clear.

Almost everyone is disappointed, frustrated, or angry about the election results—Republicans, because at this writing they appear to have lost the presidency amid widespread reports of voting—er, irregularities; Democrats, because they suffered an unexpected but major shellacking in the House and ap…

Voters send a message to the Supreme Court on race-based preferences.

One of the biggest hiccups in the recent election was the emphatic 14-point defeat of Proposition 16 in deep blue California.