Proposition 16 – California Globe

ACA 7 Aims to Authorize Race Discrimination in K-12 Gifted Programs & College Financial Aid

February 17, 2026 5:30 amFebruary 17, 2026 5:31 am

In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which amended the California Constitution to ban racial preferences and race-based affirmative action. However, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next 20 years scheming on other ways to circumvent the law....

How Did California’s Public Education Go From Best in the US to Worst?

July 9, 2025 2:00 pmJuly 10, 2025 12:29 pm

American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies, sacrificing school children on the altar of power and control. My parents were teachers throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, into 2000’s. They saw...

Race-Based Med School Admissions: The Idiocy and Danger of Cultist DEI Policies

May 29, 2024 2:55 amMay 29, 2024 2:56 am

Last week Californians learned that the once-premier UCLA Medical School is admitting students based on race instead of grades and test scores, despite the practice of race-based affirmative action admissions being illegal in California since 1996, according to a report...

University of California Now Discriminates Based on Parental Income, Education

May 11, 2024 2:45 amMay 11, 2024 7:53 am

In 1996, Californians voted, 55 to 45 percent, to ban the use of affirmative action in admissions to state schools and in state employment. In 2020, Californians voted to maintain the ban by an even wider margin, 57 to 43...

NO on ACA7 Group Protests Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie Norris’s Vote for Race-Based Preferences

April 14, 2024 10:00 amApril 14, 2024 10:00 am

Even after badly losing Proposition 16 in 2020, the referendum to bring back racial preferences, the professional class of race hustlers are at it again – this time with a constitutional amendment of their own. As the Globe reported in...

California Democrats Setting Race Relations Back 70 Years with ACA 7

February 26, 2024 2:43 amFebruary 26, 2024 11:18 am

Why are Democrats segregating blacks, and now agitating for free college as part of proposed reparations in California? Black college students now have separate graduation, separate admission standards, separate dorms, separate curricula … and now are going to have separate...

California Democrats Pushing for Legalized Racial Discrimination on Ballot – AGAIN

January 8, 2024 2:50 amJanuary 9, 2024 7:34 am

Even after badly losing a 2020 referendum to bring back racial preferences, the professional class of race hustlers are back again – with a constitutional amendment. Proposition 16 would have overturned California’s ban on Affirmative Action – the preferential treatment...