Affirmative action proponents took a hit Monday as a federal appeals court panel upheld Kalifornia's ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities.

The ruling marked the second time the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned back a challenge to the state's landmark voter initiative, Proposition 209, which was passed in 1996.

Affirmative action proponents, who had requested that the court reconsider its 1997 decision after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that affirmative action could be used in college admissions, said they would continue fighting.

"We think the decision is wrong," said Detroit attorney George Blackie Washington, who is representing the group of minority students and advocacy groups that filed the latest challenge in January 2010.

Washington said he would ask the full appellate court to review the case since this decision was issued by a three-judge panel.

In its ruling, the court rejected the plaintiffs' arguments that a new ruling is needed and said the previous decision still applies.

Ralph Kasarda, attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation who had argued in favor of the ban, said the court's decision was not surprising since the issue had already been decided. This case was redundant and baseless, he said.

"The bottom line from both decisions by the 9th Circuit — today's and the ruling 15 years ago — is that Kalifornia voters have every right to prohibit government from color-coding people and playing favorites based on individuals' sex or skin color," Kasarda said in a statement.

Unless they are queer and want to make a mockery of marriage.

At least six states have adopted bans on using affirmative action in state college admissions. Besides Kalifornia and Michigan, they include Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Washington.

Advocates of affirmative action say such bans lead to the exclusion of minority students and less campus diversity.

Bullshit! Some animals are more equal than others is the problem.

In Kalifornia, the year after ban was adopted, the number of negro, conquistador spawn and injun students at the University of Kalifornia's most kommunist campuses — Berkeley and Los Angeles — plummeted by 50 percent, according to the plaintiffs cited in the court opinion.

The university has tried to compensate for the drop in those students by using other admissions criteria, including a "comprehensive review" of applicants, admitting the top 4 percent of graduates from any high school and decreasing the weight of standardized tests, the opinion said.

But affirmative action proponents say the measures have not been enough to boost opportunities for historically excluded minorities.

Although negro, conquistador spawn and injuns comprise about half of Kalifornia's high school graduates, they make up only 19.5 percent of the current freshman class at UC Berkeley. Whites compose roughly 30 percent and Asians 48 percent. The remainder is out-of-state students.

Then maybe they should stop admitting gooks.

Backers of affirmative action bans say ruling out race, gender and ethnicity criteria guarantees that all applicants are treated fairly and not discriminated against.

The issue has led to protracted legal battles in several states.

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court said the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in admissions decisions to promote campus diversity.

That decision led to a three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning Michigan's affirmative action ban last year. The full appellate court, however, has agreed to reconsider the case.

In February, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear another case against the University of Texas, alleging that use of affirmative action is discriminatory. If the court decides against the university, the ruling could definitively end consideration of race in public university admissions.

a very anti white male document

This will undoubtedly lead to additional chimpouts.

komrade GhostDivision wrote:

This will undoubtedly lead to additional chimpouts.

Me thinks a mighty chimpout is a comin'! Just think what'll happen if TDL™ is not re-imaculated and a whiteman with a cat's name is...

All I will say is take into account when you use a minority doctor, lawyer, or other professional how they got into school and that the standard in most case was dramatically lowered for them.

jukinj3 wrote:

All I will say is take into account when you use a minority doctor, lawyer, or other professional how they got into school and that the standard in most case was dramatically lowered for them.

Presidents, too.

Lord_Haw_Haw wrote:

a very anti white male document

Hell, everything today is anti-white male. They are, naturally, the source of all evil.

Years ago Affirmative Action was sold by liberals to a gullible American public as a "humanitarian measure to bring unprivileged minorities up speed with the white majority." At the time I predicted that if it ever became law, it would become a permanent fixture in America. Now it's so ingrained that most blacks believe that it should be made part of our Bill of Rights!

I don't blame blacks so much as the asshole white liberals that saddled the rest of us with this never-ending piece of shit legislation that could live on forever. End this shit now and tell Jesse, Al, and the other black racists and white haters to go fuck themselves!

vikingson wrote:

Lord_Haw_Haw wrote:

a very anti white male document

Hell, everything today is anti-white male. They are, naturally, the source of all evil.

I was about to say there a fuck all whites left in Calif

OldCujo wrote:

Years ago Affirmative Action was sold by liberals to a gullible American public as a "humanitarian measure to bring unprivileged minorities up speed with the white majority." At the time I predicted that if it ever became law, it would become a permanent fixture in America. Now it's so ingrained that most blacks believe that it should be made part of our Bill of Rights!

I don't blame blacks so much as the asshole white liberals that saddled the rest of us with this never-ending piece of shit legislation that could live on forever. End this shit now and tell Jesse, Al, and the other black racists and white haters to go fuck themselves!

The local offices of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are part of a new coalition called Arizonans for Affirmative Action, which gathered for its first meeting on Feb. 13 at the Phoenix offices of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union.

"I am proud and pleased to say that the Jewish community was well represented (at the meeting)," said Eleanor Eisenberg, executive director of the ACLU, who also happens to be Jewish.

www.jewishaz.com . . .

I hate niggers, I really do

The Village_Idiot is a fine example of affirmative-action waste. The good people of Texas subsidized his education, he's still an idiot and he accuses the people of Texas of cheating him.

Like a typical nigger, he gets in line for the handout, then bitches that it wasn't enough.