“Progressives” keep coming up with new ways to divide people by race, evidently because they think it helps them in their quest for omnipotent government. In California, they work at this nonstop.
In today’s Martin Center article, Wenyuan Wu looks at the state’s “Black Serving Institutions” designation.
She writes:
In February 2024, Democratic lawmakers in California, who have, for the last two decades, occupied the state legislature with supermajorities, proposed a new state bill to support “Black and African American students attending postsecondary educational institutions in California” and reduce the “academic equity gaps.” Senate Bill 1348, authored by California senator Steven Bradford, aims to address “barriers and disparities for Black and African American students” by establishing the designation of “California Black-Serving Institutions” for eligible state colleges and universities.
Wu argues that this will do nothing to deal with the causes of the disparities, which would require major changes in K–12 education. On the contrary, she writes: “as long as California’s focus is on race and how students in certain subgroups are handicapped by institutional racism, no meaningful change will happen: Schools will be preoccupied with pushing victimhood and excusing non-performance for ‘equitable’ reasons.”
In sum, this is more political grandstanding to make “progressives ” feel good, but it is just a distraction.