Despite the strong opposition from many Asian American organizations, California legislature passed AB1726 (Bonta) this month. AB1726, in essence, is a duplicate of AB176 (Bonta) that you vetoed last year. We applaud your previous decision and we urge that you take the same action this time again.
Regrettably, AB1726 is equally divisive, unfair, unscientific, and infeasible. We believe that your concern over its predecessor bill AB176 holds true in this current case: “Dividing people into ethnic or other subcategories may yield more information, but not necessarily greater wisdom about what actions should follow. To focus just on ethnic identity may not be enough.”
AB1726 is clearly divisive and unfair. It does not stipulate the collection of similar racial data from any group other than the Asian Americans Pacific Islanders. The bill, for example, does not require Cuban Americans, or Mexican Americans to report their ethnicities other than the generic “Hispanic.” Similarly, it does not require Jewish Americans, Arab Americans or Irish American to report ethnicities other than the generic “White.” It is indisputable that those sub-groups within the Hispanics and Whites are ethnically and culturally diverse. Singling out Asian Americans for stratification is not only unfair to Asian Americans, but also to all Americans.
AB1726 is unscientific. It confuses ethnicities with national origins. For instance, China as a country officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups among its citizens, including, for example, Korean, Hmong, Muslim and Mongolian. So identifying oneself as “Chinese” or “Taiwanese” doesn’t disclose that person’s true ethnic and possibly cultural background. Furthermore, the impact of the citizenship of one’s ancestry -- and in many cases multiple citizenships within the family tree -- is not necessarily a deciding factor of that person’s genetic makeup, or socioeconomic situation and educational status. Therefore, such stratification tactic encoded by AB1726 wouldn’t have been a useful factor in allocating educational or health resources of California.
In addition to all the problems above, this bill cannot be realistically implemented. Besides putting substantial costs on California taxpayers, the system is not intended to, nor is it able to, monitor and verify the accuracy and integrity of the self-identified data generated under this bill.
California does not need a bill that could only divide our communities. California does not need more heightened racial tensions. Please veto AB1726.
很抱歉，前面的一个失误，再次感谢大家的指正，我很感激。插一段题外话，我在学校读书的时候一直是Pron vs Con，写文章也好、思维也好，都是这个思路，Pron第一，Con第二，很少用Con vs Pron的，楼主也编过几个网站，虽然不精通，但是基本的Div + CSS还是会的，这个应该用<li>的命令行，民主党州长网站设计成Con第一、Pron第二，我个人感觉设计的非常tricky。好了，大家继续写吧。我也要重新单独写几份新的。
I am a Chinese-American high school student from a high school in California who has just completed 11th grade 6 days ago. I value education and hard work, because I have been taught that if you worked hard, were passionate about your education, and believed in the American dream of opportunity, you can at least open more doors of opportunity for myself (in this case, one of my stepping stones to success is to be accepted by a good college/university). At school, my teachers had taught me that if I worked hard academically and maintained a balanced and well-rounded lifestyle, I would improve my chances of getting into a good college. After all, the teachers were at least fair in the sense that if you studied hard for your test, you'd reap the reward of scoring higher on your tests on most occasions. Indeed, it made sense to me that since America's Olympic game's basketball team (composed of not a single Asian) didn't pull a good portion of the current players from the team out, on the basis of racial diversity in representation, to be replaced by a Asian-American players in order to strengthen Asian-American's foundation in the area of sports, it didn't occur to me that a different rule based on race would need to be applied to the educational field. However, I was never told by my teachers that I would have to score much higher on my SAT and have a much higher GPA than my non-Asian classmates sitting right next to me in class, because I was born into the "wrong" race (in terms of college entrance): the Asian race. This year, I witnessed some of my Asian classmates who were just as qualified or more qualified (from both the high school I had transferred from and the high school I currently am in) be rejected, rejected, and rejected by all of the IVY league schools. Many of these Asian-American students were well rounded and excelled in school. In the end, I learned that NONE of these Asian-American students from both high schools had been accepted by the IVY league schools. Who got in to the IVY leagues schools from both schools? The answer is, students from non-Asian decent did...because of the need for "diversity".
Some people seem to value the need of diversity over how much time, energy, effort, and sacrifices I have put into my education. They seem to think that because of the need to help other races have a leg up in education, it's ok to take advantage of the Asian-American students through Affirmative Action laws, such as AB 1726, by giving away their rightfully earned spots into their dream university to another equally qualified, but of non-Asian decent, applicant. They seem to think that it's ok to plant the idea into thousands of Asian students' minds that no matter how hard they work, they will have to sacrifice more and suffer through more of the pain in conquering more obstacles in life in their academic field, because they were born as an Asian-American. In this sense, they seem to think that it's ok to hurt thousands of dedicated Asian-American students' motivations, ambitions, dreams, and innocence in believing in equality.
As a high school student, fresh out of 11th grade, I can testify that it is extremely discouraging to have to fill in the bubble on my answer sheet of being from an Asian decent on my SAT bubble answer sheet, my 15 AP test bubble answer sheet, my ACT bubble sheet, and my college application-related bubble answer sheets. Why? Because I know that I will be categorized by my race and judged for that by the colleges that I have worked so hard to get into. I know that the moment the college admission officers see a dark bubble next to the word "Asian", they will expect a much higher SAT/ACT score, a much higher GPA, and an amazing extracurricular profile. In essence, they will be asking me to be a nearly perfect student in the eyes of many to get into an IVY league school.
Assemblyman Bonta, how would you feel if you were in my shoes?
1、找到加州州长Brown的网上联系方式：https://govnews.gov.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php 然后，打开。
2、按照图下的步骤进行：
3、全部填好后，可以直接点击Continue继续，然后贴英语样稿即可，不要忘记自己的姓名。
鼠标下移：
4、发好Email，就如下的图片了。
附上英语样稿，另外一个楼里mm写的：
Honorable Governor Brown:
Despite the strong opposition from many Asian American organizations, California legislature passed AB1726 (Bonta) this month. AB1726, in essence, is a duplicate of AB176 (Bonta) that you vetoed last year. We applaud your previous decision and we urge that you take the same action this time again.
Regrettably, AB1726 is equally divisive, unfair, unscientific, and infeasible. We believe that your concern over its predecessor bill AB176 holds true in this current case: “Dividing people into ethnic or other subcategories may yield more information, but not necessarily greater wisdom about what actions should follow. To focus just on ethnic identity may not be enough.”
AB1726 is clearly divisive and unfair. It does not stipulate the collection of similar racial data from any group other than the Asian Americans Pacific Islanders. The bill, for example, does not require Cuban Americans, or Mexican Americans to report their ethnicities other than the generic “Hispanic.” Similarly, it does not require Jewish Americans, Arab Americans or Irish American to report ethnicities other than the generic “White.” It is indisputable that those sub-groups within the Hispanics and Whites are ethnically and culturally diverse. Singling out Asian Americans for stratification is not only unfair to Asian Americans, but also to all Americans.
AB1726 is unscientific. It confuses ethnicities with national origins. For instance, China as a country officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups among its citizens, including, for example, Korean, Hmong, Muslim and Mongolian. So identifying oneself as “Chinese” or “Taiwanese” doesn’t disclose that person’s true ethnic and possibly cultural background. Furthermore, the impact of the citizenship of one’s ancestry -- and in many cases multiple citizenships within the family tree -- is not necessarily a deciding factor of that person’s genetic makeup, or socioeconomic situation and educational status. Therefore, such stratification tactic encoded by AB1726 wouldn’t have been a useful factor in allocating educational or health resources of California.
In addition to all the problems above, this bill cannot be realistically implemented. Besides putting substantial costs on California taxpayers, the system is not intended to, nor is it able to, monitor and verify the accuracy and integrity of the self-identified data generated under this bill.
California does not need a bill that could only divide our communities. California does not need more heightened racial tensions. Please veto AB1726.
Best Regards,
你名字
email sent! Thank you!
对！我加上去了，谢谢你的意见！！！：）
顶！
不要紧，要的是总量！那个mm写的很不错。
你再找找，我发给几遍都有啊。
我发了两封了，晚上继续
☆ 发自 iPhone 华人一网 1.11.07
去年还是前年我们小区附近的plaza要rezone建apartment，小区里号召大家给city council成员发email，就给了email的样板，大家就照着那个发。然后开会的时候大家都去表达反对意见，最后rezone就没批。
开电脑发邮件去。
到底选哪个？
LZ是不是奸细来骗人的
我也没有subject, 把那个标题写在mail主体了。 还打了好几个惊叹号！
赶紧再发了一个con抵消一下= =
一般AA是平权，没有细分亚裔的。你亚裔还是亚裔，不分什么中国人、韩国人、日本人、柬埔寨人、菲律宾人等，现在加州把亚裔单独拆开，没有拆开黑人、西裔和白人。原来的AA在录取上是按照亚裔、黑人、白人和西裔几个大类录取的，现在如果亚裔细分的话，那么原本就非常少名额的亚裔就变得更加稀释，华人就是牵连的对象之一。现在很多高科技企业就开始AA了。
https://www.change.org/p/california-governor-veto-ab-1726
谢谢你表扬！
看到有些Asian支持这个法案…… 其实我kind of能理解Asian里人数少的一些民族不想跟Asian学霸们一起承受不公正待遇。
但不想承受不公正的关键是反对AA啊！是：我们也是minority，AA没有照顾到我们，所以AA根本不合理啊！细分Asian有毛用！在美国这样的国家，受欺负就是因为人少。以为不跟别的Asian站在一起了，就能占到什么便宜吗？太天真了。
其实就算想平分教育资源，也应该是改变选拔机制。哪怕觉得Asian光会学习你加考体育也显得公平一点啊，起码选上的人都是自己挣来的。或者哪怕成绩过了某条线以后全部lottery决定是否录取也公平一点啊，起码一切全凭运气大家都不用多努力了，Asian的孩子也可以多享受享受生活了。现在这样强行强迫Asian的孩子必须更出色，你努力我们就给你增加难度，完完全全是不平等和歧视。
网上看到一个孩子写的comment，好心酸：
To whom it may concern,
Please support repealing the AB 1726 bill.
I am a Chinese-American high school student from a high school in California who has just completed 11th grade 6 days ago. I value education and hard work, because I have been taught that if you worked hard, were passionate about your education, and believed in the American dream of opportunity, you can at least open more doors of opportunity for myself (in this case, one of my stepping stones to success is to be accepted by a good college/university). At school, my teachers had taught me that if I worked hard academically and maintained a balanced and well-rounded lifestyle, I would improve my chances of getting into a good college. After all, the teachers were at least fair in the sense that if you studied hard for your test, you'd reap the reward of scoring higher on your tests on most occasions. Indeed, it made sense to me that since America's Olympic game's basketball team (composed of not a single Asian) didn't pull a good portion of the current players from the team out, on the basis of racial diversity in representation, to be replaced by a Asian-American players in order to strengthen Asian-American's foundation in the area of sports, it didn't occur to me that a different rule based on race would need to be applied to the educational field. However, I was never told by my teachers that I would have to score much higher on my SAT and have a much higher GPA than my non-Asian classmates sitting right next to me in class, because I was born into the "wrong" race (in terms of college entrance): the Asian race. This year, I witnessed some of my Asian classmates who were just as qualified or more qualified (from both the high school I had transferred from and the high school I currently am in) be rejected, rejected, and rejected by all of the IVY league schools. Many of these Asian-American students were well rounded and excelled in school. In the end, I learned that NONE of these Asian-American students from both high schools had been accepted by the IVY league schools. Who got in to the IVY leagues schools from both schools? The answer is, students from non-Asian decent did...because of the need for "diversity".
Some people seem to value the need of diversity over how much time, energy, effort, and sacrifices I have put into my education. They seem to think that because of the need to help other races have a leg up in education, it's ok to take advantage of the Asian-American students through Affirmative Action laws, such as AB 1726, by giving away their rightfully earned spots into their dream university to another equally qualified, but of non-Asian decent, applicant. They seem to think that it's ok to plant the idea into thousands of Asian students' minds that no matter how hard they work, they will have to sacrifice more and suffer through more of the pain in conquering more obstacles in life in their academic field, because they were born as an Asian-American. In this sense, they seem to think that it's ok to hurt thousands of dedicated Asian-American students' motivations, ambitions, dreams, and innocence in believing in equality.
As a high school student, fresh out of 11th grade, I can testify that it is extremely discouraging to have to fill in the bubble on my answer sheet of being from an Asian decent on my SAT bubble answer sheet, my 15 AP test bubble answer sheet, my ACT bubble sheet, and my college application-related bubble answer sheets. Why? Because I know that I will be categorized by my race and judged for that by the colleges that I have worked so hard to get into. I know that the moment the college admission officers see a dark bubble next to the word "Asian", they will expect a much higher SAT/ACT score, a much higher GPA, and an amazing extracurricular profile. In essence, they will be asking me to be a nearly perfect student in the eyes of many to get into an IVY league school.
Assemblyman Bonta, how would you feel if you were in my shoes?
谢谢楼主， 赞~~~