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<p>The answer to your question is an emphatic NO. To be discriminatory against a particular group, something must be done to that particular group that is not done to others. To give an example, let’s consider the literacy test that was once used to disenfranchise blacks. Whites were asked to read simple sentences whereas blacks were asked to read extremely complicated compound sentences with obscure vocabulary. There’s a story about a black Harvard graduate who tried vote in his home state. The poll worker presented a difficult English sentence, but the prospective voter easily read it. Dismayed, the poll worker then asked the to-be voter to read sentences in Latin, Greek, and French. The gentleman had no problems whatsoever. Finally, the poll worker presented a sentence in Chinese and said, “Read this!” The gentleman shook his head, smiled, and said, “You do not want me to vote.”</p>
<p>That is discrimination. You had different standards for different races. Is that what happens now in California? Absolutely not. There is one standard for everyone. That is not discrimination and to assert that it is makes a mockery of the history of discrimination in our country.</p>
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<p>Could you please tell us what the “proper criteria that allows African-Americans and Latinos to gain admission” is? In all seriousness, I think the true discrimination occurs when we state that certain groups need different criteria than others in order to be admitted!</p>
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<p>You have trouble understanding because no one here believes that it is ideal to exclude anyone on the basis of race.</p>