RejectRacial Discrimination

ACA-7 is a new California Assembly Constitutional Amendment that intends to circumvent California's constitutional guarantee of equal treatment (Proposition 209). Even though a growing majority of California voters from all backgrounds, first in 1996 (over 55%) and most recently in 2020 (over 57%), rejected racial preferences in public education, public employment and public contracting at state ballot boxes, radical state lawmakers are pushing again to legalize state-sponsored racial discrimination. We must coalesce around the timeless principle of equality and say no to ACA-7!

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ACA-7 Floor Vote

What did the bill proponents say?

Author Asm. Corey Jackson: “Prop. 209 is an unjust law.”
Co-author Asm. Akilah Weber: “Communities of color in California still suffer significantly higher rates of poverty and greater disparities in both health and educational outcomes.”
Co-author Asm. Mia Bonta: “ACA 7 begins to right the wrong inflicted on every Californian almost 27 years ago with the passage of Prop. 209.”

What about the bill opponents?

Asm. Bill Essayli: “I can't think about anything more unjust than having a racist government.”
Asm. James Gallagher: “Why don't we go by what the voters have said?”

ACA-7 Assembly Judiciary Committee Hearing

What did the bill proponents say?

Author Asm. Corey Jackson: “Proposition 209, quite frankly, is a failed experiment... This is not an opinion. It is a fact!”
Asm. Eloise Gómez Reyes: “Equality is not something we need. Equity is.”

What about the bill opponents?

Asm. Bill Essayli: “Is the intent of the bill to provide equal opportunity for all or to guarantee equal outcomes?”

ACA-7 Assembly Human Services Committee Hearing

What did the bill proponents say?

Author Asm. Corey Jackson: “Proposition 209, quite frankly, is a failed experiment... This is not an opinion. It is a fact!”
Asm. Eloise Gómez Reyes: “Equality is not something we need. Equity is.”

What did the bill proponents say?

Asm. Bill Essayli: “Is the intent of the bill to provide equal opportunity for all or to guarantee equal outcomes?”
ACA-7 Author Asm. Corey Jackson
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ACA-7 Author Asm. Corey Jackson

“To those opposing [this measure], there is no tolerance for respectfully disagreeing on this issue. There is no room for decorum when it comes to the very existence and atonement of my people.”

California Asm. Bill Essayli on ACA-7

“We are all created equal…It is unconstitutional for the government to consider race when making decisions affecting people.”
ACA-7 Author Asm. Corey Jackson interrupts Asm. Bill Essayli and calls support for the measure a fact, not an opinion.
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ACA-7 Author Asm. Corey Jackson interrupts Asm. Bill Essayli and calls support for the measure a fact, not an opinion.

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