California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants

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• jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be interested in reading this bill as descendants of slaves is a wide net. Jewish people were slaves to the Egyptians, Slavs were enslaved by Romans and Spanish Muslims, Irish enslaved by the English. I’m sure just about all Americans have a slave descendent.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last time they worded reparations to exclude white appearing people of black ancestry, which is just outright racism IMO. It’s either to make amends for the systemic oppression of your ancestors, which resulted in you personally having a harder time in life, or its not. California made it clear with that distinction that it’s not.

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    • Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be completely fair, there are issues with this happening in Australia. It has become something of a joke to look at the recipients of aboriginal scholarships or even seats at Universities designated for aboriginal scholars and you wind up seeing visibly white people. This is to not doubt the veracity of their claims or even to necessarily “demote” them as aboriginals, but it becomes potentially harmful to the aboriginals themselves who consistently see visibly white, minimally aboriginal people beating them out for these rewards or obtaining them because there’s so little competition.

      It would be like making a list of the top 10 Latino scholars in Latin studies and 9 out of 10 of them are light-skinned castizos… Particularly for people from places like Mexico, where discrimination based on coloring thrives, it is unhelpful…

      So, I am not saying that the people who remove them are absolutely right… In some cases they are denying people where such a problem may not exist, but I understand some degree of vigilance and gatekeeping.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Would this apply to children of slaves California’s currently has in their prison system?

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A California lawmaker said he will introduce a bill

  Non-story so far.

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• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know, this isn’t a bad form of reparations. Public universities are owned by the state so it’s not like you’re forcing private citizens to give anyone anything.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it can be proven, I have no issue with it. I’m not against reparations that make sense. I’d even be fine with a free education for one to two generations as a form of reparations.

    What I’m against is an open wallet with no real goal or just a cash handout.

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  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Money taken via taxes is how universities are funded, funneling the money through a university doesn’t change what it is.

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    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And? College admission is not a good one can sell once they receive it. This isn’t comparable to just giving ADOS people money.

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought California was a free state.

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