Lisa Benson needs to check out the full story behind what she posts so she can stop embarrassing herself with her lack of understanding of history or reality since the uneducated cartoonist opted out of college deciding it wasn’t for her. Apparently, being “self-taught” was not as successful as she imagines in her dreams.
Yes, California outlawed Affirmative Action based on the inclusion of racial considerations in 1996. That fact is true. So now, Lisa, tell the rest of the story…
This was done in 1996 by REPUBLICAN governor Pete Wilson and a REPUBLICAN legislature, back when California was a reliably RED state that gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and in the 100 previous years before Jerry Brown’s second two-term administration had only elected two Democratic governors not named Brown, one of whom was booted out after a single term and the other of which got recalled and replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And how did that work out? Minority enrollments at state colleges and universities plummeted after Affirmative Action was gutted.
And how did it work out for Republicans? Pete Wilson’s war on minorities had the distinct effect of waking up the sleeping giant of the Latino voters, which had been among the lowest in percentage of turnout at election but, after his anti-immigrant and anti-Latino and “English Only” racist initiatives (that were thrown out by the courts), Latinos started voting. Today they are the highest in voter turnout and transformed this state from a reliable red state into the bluest state in the union. No Republican has won any statewide office in California since 2010.
Lisa Benson needs to check out the full story behind what she posts so she can stop embarrassing herself with her lack of understanding of history or reality since the uneducated cartoonist opted out of college deciding it wasn’t for her. Apparently, being “self-taught” was not as successful as she imagines in her dreams.
Yes, California outlawed Affirmative Action based on the inclusion of racial considerations in 1996. That fact is true. So now, Lisa, tell the rest of the story…
This was done in 1996 by REPUBLICAN governor Pete Wilson and a REPUBLICAN legislature, back when California was a reliably RED state that gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and in the 100 previous years before Jerry Brown’s second two-term administration had only elected two Democratic governors not named Brown, one of whom was booted out after a single term and the other of which got recalled and replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And how did that work out? Minority enrollments at state colleges and universities plummeted after Affirmative Action was gutted.
And how did it work out for Republicans? Pete Wilson’s war on minorities had the distinct effect of waking up the sleeping giant of the Latino voters, which had been among the lowest in percentage of turnout at election but, after his anti-immigrant and anti-Latino and “English Only” racist initiatives (that were thrown out by the courts), Latinos started voting. Today they are the highest in voter turnout and transformed this state from a reliable red state into the bluest state in the union. No Republican has won any statewide office in California since 2010.