{"id":27277,"date":"2020-08-03T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27277"},"modified":"2020-08-03T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:13:47","slug":"californians-for-equal-rights-aib2bs-orange-county-car-rally-to-fight-affirmative-action-prop-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27277","title":{"rendered":"Californians For Equal Rights &#038; AIB2B&#8217;s Orange County Car Rally to Fight Affirmative Action Prop 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Key Leaders Will Speak On Saturday, August 22nd at Irvine City Hall, 10:30 am.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xC1VOn-ZUpPc2FOm0KPaQS9o8zUgaFmq_yBnhivhIP5g8JE4mUfj0uyHMU1SyX3PcMv8DHOa2HEwVQzcuV75IuCodbaU7DIATbpqJ7BcRCch9JX5V7RVN7Xy84iy4ng5AWCv2wvj9FnfJJyvMXG0pG9HWYDt1A=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/a6e8a4711968d1772469b8127\/images\/3286e9be-0b02-4e91-a7f4-ee3cbace8875.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Monday, August 3, 2020 &#8211; IRVINE &#8211;\u00a0The community of\u00a0<strong>Irvine<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0expecting a few hundred cars, targeted specifically in the Asian American community,\u00a0to gather in unity\u00a0to denounce affirmative action by voting\u00a0<strong>NO on Prop 16<\/strong>, which will be on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 16 seeks to modify the California Constitution by removing a non-discrimination clause when it comes to college admissions and hiring and promotions in the public sector. This affects any government job,\u00a0<strong>University of California\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Cal State Universities<\/strong>.\u00a0 It would repeal\u00a0<strong>Prop 209<\/strong>, instituted in 1996, to bar discrimination of any kind during the selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Prop 16 was led by<strong>\u00a0Californians for Equal Rights\u00a0<\/strong>(CFER) leader,\u00a0<strong>Ward Connerly<\/strong>, who was a University of California Regent. He has come out of retirement to work with CFER and local organizations like\u00a0<strong>Asian Industry B2B<\/strong>\u00a0(AIB2B)\u00a0to fight this Constitutional Amendment, also called ACA5 and is now put up to voters on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>We will spend a<u>\u00a0morning with washable chalk pens to write No On Prop 16 on our cars<\/u>\u00a0and listen to speakers involved in the battle.<\/p>\n<p>These will include\u00a0<strong>Betty Tom Chu<\/strong>, the first Chinese woman to pass the BAR in Southern California, and founder of East West Bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gail Heriot<\/strong>\u00a0is a law professor for the University of San Diego and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Park<\/strong>\u00a0is an Irvine resident, small business owner, community organizer, and candidate for City Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vijay Ingam<\/strong>\u00a0is a civil rights advocate and a best selling author on racial discrimination.\u00a0 Vijay is also the brother of actress\u00a0<strong>Mindy Kaling<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em>\u00a0and was featured in CNN, Fox News, Huffington Post and many other news outlets in 2015 for his personal story.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Leaders Will Speak On Saturday,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27278,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27277\/revisions\/27278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}