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Stop using race in admissions — and leave wokeness behind

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California voters have said, again and again, that universities and colleges in California should not be able to use race in admissions. So why do these institutions continue to discriminate?

And will our education system ever focus on education again — and leave wokeness behind?

The latest allegations have hit the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) claims is looking for ways to use race on the sly.

As The California Post has reported, UC Berkeley dean Edwin Chemerinsky has said himself that schools might try to find “proxies for race” — with “strong race neutral justifications.”

The DOJ leans heavily on Chemerinsky’s own public statements as evidence in a six-page letter explaining its findings. Chemerinsky repeatedly suggested that universities could use “diversity” in hiring and admissions, but would have to keep quiet in public about doing so.

The letter also says that UC Berkeley Law used the essay portion of its application to push........

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