Californians vote on Proposition 16 measure to bring back affirmative action practices
In 1996, 54% of Californians voted to pass Proposition 209, a measure that banned discrimination or preferential treatment by public colleges or other government agencies on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity, ending all affirmative action practices in the state. Now, 24 years later, California Democrats have placed Proposition 16 on Tuesday's ballot, a measure to reverse Prop 209 and which would “permit government decision-making policies to consider race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin to address diversity.” In an interview with Fox News, Peter Kirsanow, a commissioner on the U.S.