Cali beat: An Unhealthy Obsession with Race

“In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which banned the use of race, sex or ethnicity in public employment, education and contracting. Things have changed drastically since then,” Anastasia Boden and Wen Fa argue at The Hill. “In 2018, the legislature passed a ‘woman quota’ for the boards of all publicly held corporations.” And this year it’s expanding the quota to include “underrepresented communities.” Now “California’s corporations must mechanically reserve board seats not just for women but also for other individuals simply because they” self-identify as black, Hispanic, gay, etc. A state court recently struck down that quota, but “this slow creep will continue as long as legislators focus on race-based balance rather than seeking to repeal unfair barriers that hold individuals back.”