Dear Fellow Asian Americans and Friends,
The
schools are smart, they know the best defense for race conscious policies is to
portray all minorities love it. Vocal AsAm
allies create just that impression.
Watch this AsAm legal counsel for
Univ. of Texas (UT) publicly proclaiming “Fisher v. UT Austin” to be without
any merit during the critical period the Supreme Court was evaluating whether
to take up Fisher’s petition. Fortunately the Supreme Court did NOT listen to
him.
With “Fisher” moving
forward, many AsAm orgs rushed to the schools’ rescues ONCE AGAIN!
They
DID it in the past
APALC and its affiliates filed an
amicus brief in support of Univ. of Michigan’s race-conscious admissions
program in the 2003 Supreme Court case, “Grutter v. Bollinger”, insisting AsAms
are “not harmed by” but rather “benefited from” such practice. Thanks to APALC, the “Grutter” decision
opened the flood gate to enhanced race-conscious policies many schools
practiced over the last 9 years that your children and grand-children currently
enjoy: UT Austin announced on the VERY SAME DAY of the “Grutter” decision that it would RE-INTRODUCE race/ethnicity into college admission,
which led to the current “Fisher v. UT Austin” case. When the “Fisher” case was at the US Fifth
Circuit court in 2010, APALC and its affiliates promptly filed an amicus brief
again, ensuring the upholding of “race conscious” policy which has now reached the
Supreme Court.
Emboldened by “Grutter”, AALDEF and
its affiliates filed an amicus brief to extend race-conscious admissions policy
into K-12 education. In the 2007 Supreme Court cases “Parents v.
Seattle School District” and “Meredith v. Jefferson”, they argued for the
school districts’ racial balancing plan.
Under such a policy, a student could be bused to other school districts
if the school across the street reached the predetermined racial quota. Imagine the agony of AsAm parents who
literally sacrificed everything to move into a good school district only to
find that their children really need to “benefit from” forced racial
integration into a bad school district.
Now
they are doing it AGAIN
APALC and AALDEF have publicly
announced they will file an amicus brief YET AGAIN
at the Supreme Court (August 13th deadline). If they are as successful as they have been in the
past, you can be rest assured that your children and grand-children will
“benefit from” the race conscious college admissions policy for the next
quarter century.
In preparation, AALDEF issued a
press release on June 25 titled “The Majority of AsAms Support Race-Conscious Admissions
Policies”, aimed specifically to discredit 80-20EF’s historic open
& neutral survey of 50,000 people showing overwhelming AsAm support for
race-neutral, merit-based college admissions.
Our response is simple: Why don’t we work together to conduct a
large-scale AsAms survey specifically on college admissions, designed by
professionals, monitored by neutral third parties, and open to all AsAms, to
find out who is lying?
If you disagree with the APALC and AALDEF stance, please let
them know their upcoming amicus brief will do immeasurable harm to AsAm
interests, especially if it creates the impression “The Majority of AsAms
Support Race-Conscious Admissions Policies”, as AALDEF publicly proclaimed.
It takes courage to challenge the
status quo and defend our core interest.
Your silence has been interpreted by APALC and
AALDEF, and maybe by the Supreme Court, as “the silent majority” supporting the
current policy, a perfect recipe to ensure your children and
grandchildren would continue to “benefit from” the race-conscious policy for
the next quarter century.
Will you do your part to support
80-20 in this ferocious battle for equality?
The future of your children is in your hands.
Or send
your check to: 80-20 PAC, 13337 South St. #189,
Cerritos, CA 90703.
Family membership
is $50 (two), individual $35, student $15.
Respectfully,
80-20Collective Leadership
