Affirmative Action and Diversity Don’t Mix

California Democrats are in a state of shock that that Asian
Americans – who voted for Obama at rates comparable to those of
blacks – handed a resounding defeat to the proposal to reinstate
racial preferences in California universities. The state Senate had
approved 27-9 a measure to scrap Prop 209 for the November ballot.
But Asian Americans, who apparently didn’t get the party memo that
they should abandon their spots in top universities to further
liberal diversity goals, went into high-gear to oppose the measure,
causing the Assembly to scuttle it and three state senators to
withdraw their support.

But this is only the taste of things to come for affirmative
action Democrats, I note in my Washington Examiner column this
morning:

Trying to perform a racial balancing act in a country that was
neatly divided into two groups — the white discriminators and
the black discriminated — was one thing. But pulling it off in a
diverse country with diverse groups with diverse histories and
diverse interests is quite another. Foisting preferences on a
diverse America will pit various groups against each other — as
well as against Democrats, as the fight in California amply
demonstrates. Diversity
and racial preferences are directly antithetical — contrary to
liberal orthodoxy.

Diversity and racial preferences don’t mix.

Go
here to read the whole thing.