Affirmative action drama in California

From Thomas Lifson at American Thinker:

Asian-Americans in California are in revolt against an attempt to reinstate affirmative action through a new statewide referendum. Democrats in the California state legislature have been attempting to put such a referendum to voters, reionstating racial preferences which had been banned from all state institutions including the University of California and California State University Systems, ever since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996.

The ban has decreased black and Hispanic enrollments in the most competitive institutions, while drastically increasing Asian-American enrollments, particularly at the flagship Berkeley and UCLA campuses. However, graduation rates for black and Hispanic students admitted have increased, reducing the tragedy of students admitted to schools they were ill-equipped to compete in, and dropping out before graduation.

I had a debate about Prop 209 in the office with an asian colleague several years ago and he absolutely was for the repeal of the proposition, claiming it to be discriminatory. When I related the facts the number of asian students accepted in Berkeley and UCLA increased, he suddenly thought it wasn't so bad.

He never thought that the good liberals who run these elite colleges would limit the number of asian allowed to attend, since they are a minority. Oops.