California shouldn’t revisit Proposition 209

Because of horrific wrongs done to African-Americans historically, and in specific contexts in recent weeks and months, California is about to discriminate against Asian-Americans. The bill is Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5, it passed the Assembly and will soon be voted on in the State Senate.
In 1996, we were both in elected office.  We each worked to put an end to the use of race by California’s government. The highest principles of our state could be vindicated by a