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SAN DIEGO, CA \u2013 March 15, 2021-\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) sends<\/span>\u00a0an official letter<\/a>\u00a0to University of California Berkeley Chancellor following the school\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0announcement<\/a>\u00a0of an explicit priority to pursue racial quotas. CFER strongly criticize this 25% Hispanic quota as illegal, unconstitutional, misguided and a self-serving attempt for financial gains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll students, regardless of race, ethnicity or national origin, deserve equal protection of the laws in pursuing their education,\u201d said Grace Li, Vice President of CFER, \u201cIt is distasteful and dangerous for a prestigious institution like UC Berkeley to openly scorn the law and prioritize racial spoils.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This illegal plan was\u00a0<\/span>laid out<\/a>\u00a0by Chancellor Carol Christ and officials at the school\u2019s Division of Equity & Inclusion, following<\/span>\u00a0a detailed report<\/a>\u00a0by the Chancellor\u2019s Task Force on Becoming A Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). \u201cSadly, nowhere in the HSI task force\u2019s December 2020 report has the task force addressed the glaring pipeline issues in K-12 education undergirding the persistent racial achievement gap,\u201d according to CFER\u2019s official letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Setting up racial quotas violates federal and state laws including the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Article I Section 31 of the California Constitution. More importantly, the racial quota plan does nothing to address the real root problems and pipeline issues in K-12 education, thereby not uplifting its targeted student groups while scapegoating hard-working students from disfavored groups. CFER condemns Chancellor Christ and her HSI task force for perpetuating the zero-sum racial favoritism and requests UC Berkeley reverse its HSI plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER)<\/strong>: We are a non-partisan and non-profit organization established following the defeat of Proposition 16 in 2020, with a mission to defend and raise public awareness on the cause of equal rights through public education, civic engagement and community outreach. In 1996, California became the first U.S. state to amend its constitution by passing Proposition 209 to ban racial discrimination and preferences. Prop. 209 requires that \u201cthe state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.\u201d CFER is dedicated to educating the public on this important constitutional principle of equal treatment. www.Cferfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO, CA \u2013 March 15, 2021-\u00a0Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) sends\u00a0an official letter\u00a0to University of California Berkeley Chancellor following the school\u2019s\u00a0announcement\u00a0of an explicit priority to pursue racial quotas. CFER strongly criticize this 25% Hispanic quota as illegal, unconstitutional, misguided and a self-serving attempt for financial gains. \u201cAll students, regardless of race, ethnicity or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"\nCFER Slams UC Berkeley Chancellor for Promoting Unlawful Racial Quotas - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5564\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CFER Slams UC Berkeley Chancellor for Promoting Unlawful Racial Quotas - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SAN DIEGO, CA \u2013 March 15, 2021-\u00a0Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) sends\u00a0an official letter\u00a0to University of California Berkeley Chancellor following the school\u2019s\u00a0announcement\u00a0of an explicit priority to pursue racial quotas. 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