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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Jeremy Navarro <jeremynav77@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Tuesday, September 15, 2020 3:01 PM <br />To:Jeremynav77@gmail.com <br />Subject:city council meeting general public comments <br />Dear city council member, <br /> <br />Lately there were many rallies organized by residents throughout California to <br />oppose proposition 16. Civil Rights activists, law professors, elected officials, <br />students and parents all spoke passionately against Prop 16 in those rallies. Why <br />was that? I learned that Prop 16 was proposed by the state assembly woman <br />Shirley Webber, aiming to repeal Prop 209, part of California constitution, which <br />clearly prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential <br />treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or <br />national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public <br />contracting. Yet the state wants to repeal it. If Prop 16 passes in the Nov election, it <br />means we the Californians allow the state to discriminate against all of us based on <br />our race, gender or color and allow special treatment by the state in college <br />admissions, jobs and contracting. This is totally unconstitutional and against the <br />American value of equal rights. <br />Furthermore I have learnt that the ballot label was written in a very misleading <br />fashion. It says Prop 16 allows diversity as a factor in public employment, <br />education and contracting decisions. The legislators are playing word games with <br />the voters. They replaced the word “discrimination” with the word “diversity”. This is <br />discrimination in the name of “diversity”. <br />Let’s all not be misled by the ballot label. We should all say no to discrimination <br />and most of all discrimination from the state level. Please vote NO on Prop 16 in <br />Nov! <br /> <br />Thank you. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />