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.