How the Asians Became White

Asians are now white.

              Don't believe me?  A recent MSNBC news headline announced a "Plunge in Minority University Enrollment" at the University of California, with UC Berkeley reporting that "minority admissions had declined 61 percent."  Actually, the total percentage of racial minority students at Berkeley, Asians included, fell from 57% to 49%.  If you exclude the burgeoning group of people who decline to state their race, the minority percentage fell only three percentage points, from 61% to 58%.

              The drop was exclusively among blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians.  Asians, who make up less than 10% of the California population, apparently aren't a "minority."

              Or listen to former California Chief Justice Rose Bird.  Last year, she wrote a commentary saying that, without race preferences, the UC system would be "nothing more than a group of elitist, `lily white´ institutions."  A coorganizer of Jesse Jackson's recent march in favor of race preferences called UC Berkeley's law school, whose entering class last year was 20% minority, including 14% Asian, "lily-white."  Asians aren't just white:  They are lily-white.