CCBA voices support for Southern California Chinese groups to oppose the ACA-5 Constitution Amendment

CCBA supports Southern California Chinese Colleges and Universities Joint Alumni Association, California Taiwan Fellowship Association, Southern California Chinese School Association, and the United States Vietnam-Cambodia Chinese Association in issuing a joint statement on July 9th to solemnly oppose the ACA-5 constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment has now been put on the November 3rd ballot, numbered "California Proposition 16". It will be passed to a referendum as long as it receives more than half of supporters.

The statement points out that the recent ACA-5 constitutional amendment passed by the California Senate and the House of Representatives are essentially a repeat of the 2014 SCA-5 constitutional amendment. It must be based on the ethnic population quota and applied to public university admissions, government recruitment and public contract. It will be printed on the November general election ballot and will be renamed as "California Proposition 16". If the referendum passes, it will become California law. In the future, college education, government recruitment, and public contracts will ignore individual efforts and achievements, and will be distributed according to the proportion of the population with ethnic background. California's "fair competition" will completely disappear.

Referendum 16, formerly the ACA-5 Constitution Amendment, under the banner of caring for disadvantaged groups, raises the enrollment rate of minorities in the University of California and the employment rate in government agencies in the future. However, it has completely stifled the nature of fair competition in the academic field of higher education, and will severely weaken the scientific research capabilities and overall national strength of the United States. As for future graduates,they will have to rely on ethnic "guaranteed quotas" to enter the workforce, rather than relying on it. With one’s own efforts, contributing the hard work of the university for many years to the society completely violates the selection criteria of "employing people on the basis of talents", and the country's international competitiveness will become weaker and weaker. If fields such as education and employment are roughly allocated according to the proportion of ethnic population, it will severely tear the harmony between ethnic groups, leading to competition and even discrimination among ethnic groups.

We support the implementation of the concepts of “racial diversity” and “equal pay for men and women for equal work” in college admissions and workplace employment. However, it must be based on “fair competition”. University application and employment are the important turning points in life. It must be obtained by relying on the results of personal hard work, rather than relying easily on ethnic "guaranteed quotas."

The ACA-5 constitutional amendment will be delivered to voters in the California general election in November this year. If the referendum is passed, it will become a California law. Race and gender will be taken into consideration when entering colleges, employment, and signing government contracts. Our next generation's path will be narrower and narrower. Therefore, weappeal to voters to express their demands with their ballots and resolutely reject the California referendum No. 16.