Top California universitys tired obsession with race in the legal crosshairs again

The D in DEI is really for discrimination. Once again, a leading California university is in the news over allegations that it favors some students over others.As The California Post reported exclusively, the US Department of Education is investigating UC Berkeley over three student programs and two scholarships that might discriminate based on race — and thus run afoul of civil rights law.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story The Legal Insurrection Foundation filed a federal complaint in February over the African American Student Development Office, the Black Resource Center, the Latinx Student Resource Center, the African American Initiative Scholarship and the Lloyd A.Edwards Scholarship.Now, that complaint has brought a probe by the feds.Good.

For too long, California universities have clung to racial preferences despite clear prohibitions in both state and federal law.It’s time that they dropped the DEI dogma, instead.Discrimination of any kind is wrong, and UC leaders know it’s unlawful. The California electorate has rejected racial favoritism on state campuses, including with Proposition 209 in 1996 and Proposition 16 in 2020.And the US Supreme Court outlawed race-based preferences on campus in 2023, in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.v.

President and Fellows of Harvard College.Yet somehow university administrators think they know better, and should get to decide.That’s not how it works, though.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!Berkeley and UC need to follow the law, not flout i...