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发帖数: 528 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: czjd (辽宁面团 - 第四十八浪人), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 美亚团结促进会(UAAFA)关于SCA5的公开信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 19 03:34:24 2014, 美东)
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******o
发帖数: 528 | 2 这个写的很好，希望大家向所有的contacts 转发。
目前是第一阶段， 团结，宣传。。。
还有这个招义工的贴：
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t2/SanFrancisco/34111647.html
【在 c******o 的大作中提到】
: 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
: 发信人: czjd (辽宁面团 - 第四十八浪人), 信区: SanFrancisco
: 标 题: 美亚团结促进会(UAAFA)关于SCA5的公开信
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 19 03:34:24 2014, 美东)
: 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’
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