☆ Opinion: Activists upset about SCOTUS affirmative action ruling are “perpetuating Asian hate”

Marc Ang, former Director of Outreach at Californians for Equal Rights (CFER), was a local leader in the “No on 16” fight against affirmative action in 2020. Here, Ang celebrates and unpacks the SCOTUS' landmark decision that bans discriminatory race-based college admissions, and why he believes it's a “win” for all CA'ns who oppose racism. An Opp Now exclusive.

I congratulate the Supreme Court for making the right decision after years of ambiguity around the clearly racist practice to exclude Asian and white Americans from their rightful places in college admissions and placements. I think that our society is now post-racial. And we shouldn't be playing games to have certain groups get extra benefits in the admissions process because this disrespects individual merit.

With this ruling, the Supreme Court has sent a clear message to all schools: not only colleges but also elite high schools and other merit-based programs, so that they can get the best talent in to uplift our society as a whole while providing opportunities to all other minority Americans based on merit. Not the color of their skin.

This is a win to end racism, and those who are complaining about it are perpetuating Asian hate. The mainstream media's outrage at this ruling is them being hateful and straight-up racist towards Asian Americans.

Read Bay Area CFER board member Tony Xu’s perspective on the SCOTUS ruling here.

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