UC伯克利这名学生站出来了：反对大学背书Prop16提案，种族不应成大学录取因素
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SNN 不少人说UC伯克利是左派大本营，之前一位伯克利大学教授只敢以匿名公开信形式反对BLM运动也证明了这一点。不过现在有学生看不过眼，勇敢地站出来了！这位学生叫做Saagar Sanghavi，目前UC伯克利大二计算机系。
大二学生校报刊文
反对加州大学董事会
背书PROP16肤色优待提案
配图内容：
一个人的肤色不会、
也不应该和其学术能力有任何关联！
但是这句话恰恰和我们
加州大学对PROP16的背书是矛盾的
-----Saagar Sanghavi
一名将进入UCB三年级的学生
在“ Black Lives Matter”抗议活动的大潮中，UC董事会一致投票支持废除加州209号提案（该提案禁止政府机构基于种族或族裔的优惠待遇）。如果提案prop16通过并废除提案prop209，则UC系统将能够直接考虑申请人的种族作为录取因素。作为一名坚信所有人享有平等机会的人，我不同意这一决定。
我认为自己是“黑人命也是命”运动的坚定支持者。作为一个热爱研究历史的人，我可以认识到奴隶制，殖民主义和帝国主义剥削那些的足以毁灭性的遗产，以及它们如何塑造国际舞台上的力量平衡。我已经见过，研究过并与之交谈过的朋友们，他们经历了吉姆·克劳（Jim Crow）法律，佃农制度，种族划定和排他性分区的传统，至今仍困扰着美国的有色人种社区。
不用说，一个人的肤色本身不会也不应以任何方式影响他们的学习能力。无论是自由派还是保守派，这种说法都是人类的共同基础。但是，目前这个声明与UC加州大学系统的为(Prop16法案)的背书支持背道而驰。
背书支持背后的情感是善意的-因为种族通常与个人的社会经济地位，他们成长的社区，邻里学校提供的资源和相关机会密切相关，AA平等权利行动是以“积极歧视”的一种形式想解决由于数百年来的压迫和制度上的不平等而造成的学术成就差异。
当前的大学录取标准是考虑学生的实际情况，以解决历史上的教育不平等现象。这很有道理；直接将富裕社区中能够获得大量课外活动和辅导服务的人的成就，与具有同样强烈的职业道德和才智并在学术界之外还承担其他紧迫生活责任的人的成就进行比较是不公平的。
但是209号法案的废除可能意味着种族本身成为学校录取的一个因素。结果，学校可能招收不合格的学生，以增加多样性，既伤害合格的被拒绝的候选人，也伤害不合格的候选人。
入学后学业不合格的学校的学生可能会发现自己处于班级底部，无法满足严格的课程作业和考试不及格的要求，最终没有做好进入劳动力市场的准备。招收学生时，招生委员会的目标是为他们建立学术和专业上的成功职业做好准备。简单地接纳人数较少的少数族裔进入学校并宣布胜利实际上可能无法实现这一目标。
坦率地说，在竞争激烈的大学中，艰难的考试和臭名昭著的渐变曲线根本不在乎您的肤色。一旦您进入一所顶级学校，就不会对标准进行分级。那将是公然的歧视。
此外，有色人种学生在采取AA平权行动的选择性教育机构中可能会面对来自同龄人的负面耻辱，这通常会损害他们的自尊，也可能导致较差的教育成绩。我曾多次看到学生低估了有色人种学生的同龄人，甚至有些学生甚至说出了完全的种族主义话语，例如“她进来只是因为她是黑人！”
尽管此主张在客观上是错误的，但正如第209号提案明确规定的那样，废除第209号提案可能会模糊此边界。此外，入学时按种族给予优待常常会加剧学生之间的种族紧张关系，因为没有得到这种所谓的优待的人会发现这是不公平的。
恢复平权行动的原因是种族通常与其他可能影响学生学习成绩的因素相关，例如社会经济地位和机会。但是，不要让肤色作为指标，而应直接考虑其他因素。
如前所述，在对学生进行评估时，招生人员应继续根据学生的成长环境，所拥有和为自己创造的机会来考虑学生的成就。尽管此系统并不完美，但它比让种族本身成为一个因素更为公平。
加利福尼亚州一直在庆祝自己有着令人难以置信的多样性。如果招生人员能够有效地考虑申请人的背景，那么这种多样性自然会在每年的新生班级中得到反映。教育的目标是使学生在学术和专业领域取得成功，并且通过在资源贫乏的社区（通常也是有色人种的社区）中加大对小学和中学教育的投入，加利福尼亚州的公共教育系统可以确保面对竞争激烈的大学录取，学术挑战和现实世界，每个学生都有获得成功的平等机会。
Saagar Sanghavi是加州大学伯克利分校的学生，攻读计算机科学和数学。
原文：
Prop. 16 should not be passed, race should not be a factor in admissions
BY SAAGAR SANGHAVI | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY CAL
In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests, the UC Board of Regents unanimously voted in support of the repeal of Proposition 209 — which had banned preferential treatment by government bodies based on race or ethnicity. If Proposition 16 were to pass and repeal Prop. 209, then the UC system would be able to directly consider an applicant’s race as a factor in admission. As a firm believer in equality of opportunity for everyone, I disagree with this decision.
I consider myself a strong supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. As someone who loves studying history, I can recognize the devastating legacies of slavery, colonialism and imperialist exploitation, and how they shape the balance of power on the international stage. I’ve seen, studied and spoken to friends who have experienced how the legacy of Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, racial profiling, redlining and exclusionary zoning continues to haunt communities of color in the United States to this day.
Needless to say, the color of a person’s skin by itself does not, and should not, affect their academic abilities in any way. Liberal or conservative, this statement is a common ground for humanity. However, this statement is in conflict with the UC system’s endorsement.
The sentiment behind the endorsement is well-intentioned — because race is often closely tied to an individual’s socioeconomic status, the community they grow up in, the resources their neighborhood schools offer and related opportunities, affirmative action acts as a form of “positive discrimination” to address disparities in academic achievement that are a result of centuries of oppression and institutional inequalities.
The current norm for college admissions is to consider students in context, as a means of addressing historical educational inequities. This makes sense; it’s unfair to directly compare the achievements of someone from an affluent neighborhood with access to plenty of extracurriculars and tutoring services to those of someone with an equally strong work ethic and intellect who has other pressing life responsibilities outside of academics.
But the repeal of Prop. 209 could mean that race itself becomes a factor in school admissions. And as a result, schools may admit less-qualified students with the aim of increasing diversity, hurting both more-qualified, rejected candidates and less-qualified, accepted candidates.
Students who are admitted to a school where they are underqualified academically may find themselves at the bottom of their classes, struggling to keep up with the demands of rigorous coursework and failing exams, and end up unprepared to enter the workforce. When admitting a student, the goal of admissions committees is to set them up for an academic and professional career of success. Simply admitting more underrepresented minorities to a school and declaring victory may in reality not achieve this goal.
Put more bluntly, the tough exams and the notorious grading curves at competitive universities don’t care what color your skin is. There’s no affirmative action in grading standards once you’re in a top school; that would be blatant discrimination.
In addition, the negative stigma that students of color may face from their peers in selective institutions where affirmative action is present often hurts their self-esteem and can also contribute to poorer educational outcomes. I’ve repeatedly seen students underestimate their peers who are students of color, some even going so far as saying outright racist phrases such as, “She only got in because she’s Black!”
While this claim is objectively false, as Prop. 209 clearly establishes, the repeal of Prop. 209 could blur this boundary. Moreover, preferential treatment by race in admissions can often stir up racial tensions among students, as those who don’t get this supposed preferential treatment find it unfair.
The reasoning behind reinstating affirmative action is that race is often correlated with other factors that may affect a student’s academic performance, such as socioeconomic status and opportunity. But instead of letting skin color serve as an indicator, these other factors themselves should be considered directly.
As aforementioned, when evaluating students, admission officers should continue to consider a student’s achievements in the context of the environment they grew up in and the opportunities they had and made for themselves. Although this system is not perfect, it is more equitable than allowing race itself to be a factor.
California as a state celebrates an incredible diversity. If admission officers can consider applicants’ contexts effectively, then this diversity will naturally be reflected in the incoming classes of students every year. The goal of education is to enable students to succeed in the academic and professional worlds, and by investing more heavily in primary and secondary education in under-resourced communities (which are often also communities of color), the California public education system can ensure that every student has an equal opportunity to succeed in the face of competitive college admissions, academic challenges and the real world.
Saagar Sanghavi is a rising junior at UC Berkeley studying computer science and mathematics.
来源：
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/07/03/prop-16-should-not-be-passed-race-should-not-be-a-factor-in-admissions/
反对PROP16种族优待提案
为所有人类平等权利努力
亚裔需要贡献你的力量
根据2019年的盖乐普民调
73%的美国人不同意
族裔配额作为大学录取标准。
CFER 网站截图 。
加州各族裔的人数和税收数据
Nextdoor社区网站调查
我们的邻居82%对ACA5
也就是现在的Prop16说不
今天是7.4美国国庆节
人类的梦想其实是一致的
...
一位伟大的美国人签署了《解放黑奴宣言》，
今天我们就是在他的雕像前集会。
这一庄严宣言犹如灯塔的光芒，
给千百万在那摧残生命的不义之火中
受煎熬的黑奴带来了希望。
它之到来犹如欢乐的黎明，
结束了束缚黑人的漫长之夜。
朋友们，今天我对你们说，
在现在和未来，我们虽然遭受种种困难和挫折，
我仍然有一个梦想。
这个梦想是深深扎根于美国的梦想中的。
我梦想有一天，
这个国家会站立起来，
真正实现其信条的真谛：
“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的
——人人生而平等。”
我梦想有一天，在佐治亚的红山上，
昔日奴隶的儿子将能够
和昔日奴隶主的儿子坐在一起，
共叙兄弟情谊。
我梦想有一天，
甚至连密西西比州这个正义匿迹，
压迫成风的地方，
也将变成自由和正义的绿洲。
我梦想有一天，
我的四个孩子将在一个
不是以他们的肤色，
而是以他们的品格优劣
来评价他们的国度里生活。
...
如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，
这个梦想必须实现。
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