Guest Commentary written by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Marcus Anthony Hunter is a professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA
California likes to think of itself as a laboratory for progress. But when it comes to racial equity in higher education, the experiment has failed.
Two stories broke recently that show just how twisted the state’s idea of “fairness” has become. A scholarship at UC San Diego — created to honor victims of Klan violence and help Black students — was forced open to white applicants after a legal challenge. Think about that. A program meant to repair racial terror now has to include descendants of those who were never targets of it…