by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 22, 1997

For the first time in years, the entering classes of California state law schools are no longer under affirmative action. University regents abolished it.

The results are astonishing. In 1996, 473 blacks and Hispanics were accepted to California state law schools; this year, the number fell to 229. At Berkeley alone, acceptance of blacks and Hispanics fell from 165 in 1996 to 64 this fall. Racial discrimination against white and Asian students in previous classes was apparently far broader than imagined.