Liberals should oppose racial preferences and reject Prop. 16: Richard Sander

As a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, a very early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential bid, and a co-founder of the University of California (UC) at Los Angeles’s program in public interest law, I do not understand how any liberal acquainted with the facts could support racial preferences.
On Election Day, California voters will decide on Proposition 16, which would allow race and sex to be “considered” in decisions about state jobs, contracting, and, most notably,