California has been testing the effects of a ban on affirmative action since 1996 when voters passed Proposition 209.
Biden defends affirmative action use in college admissions after Supreme Court landmark ruling
But whites have seen a decrease in enrollment and the numbers remained flat after 1996. African Americans saw numbers go down after 1996 and have also stayed low, about three percent. U.C. Berkeley student Calvin Yang is with Students for Fair Admissions, the organization that sued Harvard over its admissions policy.
Ward Connerly, a former U.C. Regent was among those fighting to pass Proposition 209. On Thursday he told us building diversity is not the job of a university.
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