Yes on Prop. 16

Voters sometimes misconstrue affirmative action to be a favor, or set of favors and handouts to the less fortunate. This is simply untrue.

We have Proposition 16 on the ballot to bring at least a little balance back into the narrative of opportunity, with a reinstatement of affirmative action. In 1978 UC Regents v. Bakke struck down diversity quotas as unconstitutional, and in 1996 under Governor Pete Wilson, Prop. 209 was passed banning the use of affirmative action.

Prop. 209 was supported by those like David Duke, the grand wizard of the KKK, and Bob Dole, the Kansas senator who was running for president that year. Attempts were made by the California Legislature that would have over turned Prop. 209, but a bill that passed was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown.