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有过许多痛苦的面试经历，我的经验是夸耀自己的成绩和学历并不能使我成为更有吸引力的求职者。名牌大学学位并不一定是成功的敲门砖，还有很多东西比名校文凭更重要。

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撰文：Jessica J. Ho

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过去一个多月以来，“黑人的命也是命”运动席卷全美各地，民间出现动荡，针对这个局势，我一直在反思，2020年作为一名美国华裔女性意味着什么？我想借机说说我自己的故事——我是怎样开始投身支持BLM和平权行动的。我希望我的分享能在更大范围内引发更多关于美国华裔和其他少数族裔，如非裔和拉美裔，之间复杂关系的对话。我希望来自不同政治光谱的美国华人能够看到，支持非裔美国人的平权行动，最终可能会给我们大家带来更多的个人幸福和成功的机会，而不是夺走我们和…

On November 7, 2006, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed, and California voters approved, a massive infrastructure bond package (Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E). The authorization allowed for $42 billion in general obligation bonds to rehabilitate California’s roads, bridges, classrooms, housing, levees and rail systems. Proposition 1B, the $19.9 billion transportation bond, was the catalyst behind the Sacramento Region’s continuing infrastructure overhaul of the U.S. Highway 50 and the Interstate 80 transportation corridors.

Breaking ground in 2010, the U.S. Highway 50 expansion has added 15 miles (7.5 miles eastbound and 7.5 miles westbound) of new bus/carpool lanes between Sunrise Boulevard and Watt Ave at a cost of the $108 million. Four years later, those of us living east of the capital city in Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Folsom or the many unincorporated neighborhoods of greater Sacramento County, benefited from less traffic congestion, shorter travel times and better air quality thanks to the recent addition of the HOV lanes. We’ll have to wait and see if that holds true this week as W/X viaduct of U.S. Highway 50 undergoes a three month structural overhaul, Sacramento’s own “Carmageddon.”

California has long been the leader in recognizing the importance of reducing pollution from motor vehicles. In 2004, Assembly Bill 2628 created the “Yellow Stickers” program. The yellow stickers, seen on the bumpers of many of California’s early model hybrid vehicles, allowed single occupant access to HOV/carpool lanes. Limited to the first 85,000 applicants, the program ended in July 2011 and encouraged the development of new and other zero emission technologies. The “successor “green clean air vehicle sticker (Senate Bill 535) made eligible 40,000 vehicle stickers to the first owners or lessees of vehicles meeting the state’s vehicle requirements. Although set to expire in 2019, the availability of the green clean air vehicle sticker is set to run out five years before the program expires. Today, less than 1500 green clean air vehicle stickers remain and while the legislative fix did pass the State Assembly, it became a victim to the affirmative action backlash from SCA 5.

To the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community and Community Members:

Hey guys, please vote for this if you are in agreement with the petition. With the proposed SCA-5, equal opportunity will not be given to students in the college admissions process of California. It is already highly unfair without this bill, especially in other parts of the USA.

 I myself am a firm believer that admission should be based purely on merit, with no regards to the race of an individual. This bill is basically lifting the ban on Affirmative Action in California. While I am all for equal representation for all races in academics, this is definitely not the way to go about it. Lowering the standards for African American and Hispanic students does nothing for the common good- not only is it degrading towards them, it forces qualified students of other races to be rejected from a college just because their ethnicity isn't isn't black or latino. 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King Jr.

If a focus on education is what people lack, resources need to be channeled early on to ensure that this focus, which isn’t coming from the parents, is coming from the school. I also think we should pay teachers way more than we currently are, so that if needed they can go above the call of duty and reach out to parents and families to get them more involved with the kids’ academic progress.

I want to see public dollars put into after school programs, mentoring programs, tutoring programs, and everything else like it. Every job or volunteer position I’ve had growing up was tutoring. I’m willing to be taxed more to see that these programs grow and as many students benefit from them as possible, especially from an early age. If there was a bill diverting funds from, say, that inane high speed rail project to more early-education programs and after school mentoring, THAT would be a more productive way to address differences in cultural education perspectives and would be a better way to “even out” the “playing field”.

I support giving kids who don’t have certain luxuries the tools and guidance they need to succeed. What I do NOT support is flat out rejecting students who belong to a certain ethnic background simply by virtue of their culture. My parents didn’t almost die trying to get here and then bus tables and deliver newspapers to see me rejected just because, although they were willing to focus their extremely limited income on my schooling, there are too many people who look like me in the public higher education system.

SCA 5- Another blow to Asian Americans

SCA 5 – I hear about it everywhere now. The news, Facebook, friends. There’s much opposition towards it, especially stemming from the Asian American community. Why, in an effort to create a more “diverse” public education system, would you discriminate against the color of someone’s skin? By clumping the different ethnicities of “Asian” into one category, we are oppressing the minority groups, the different nuances and shades of “Asian” peoples. SCA 5- affirmative action- an effort to make the education system more “fair” and “equal.” I’m sorry, but I don’t see any justice coming from this. We are mistakenly labeled as taking over the public education system. A common complaint that I hear from many people, no matter where I go, is “THERE’S TOO MANY ASIANS. TOO MANY CHINESE PEOPLE.” Yeah, it’s true there’s Asians everywhere, but do you recognize the different types of ethnicities that make up the Asian population? Do you realize that within the Asian American community are individuals with unique characteristics and minds and perspectives? Do you realize that there are individuals, regardless of race, who actually want to work hard and succeed and do well in education in life? And it just so happens that much of the Asian American community consists of hard-working, determined individuals? It’s not like whites and black and browns, Latinos and Caucasians and Africans, are inferior and less hard-working than Asians. But I truly believe that it is a coincidence that there are more Asians in the higher education system. And what is this thing about “diversity?” Some statistic that treats everyone as  a number? A bar graph, a pie chart, that one falls under a category? From what I see, this only limits a perfectly suitable person’s ability to have a chance at higher education. College admissions are hella competitive enough, as many Cal and UC students know, and adding a whole layer of discrimination on top of it makes matters worse. A student not only has to worry about grades, extracurricular activities, their GPA and class rank, SATs, and overall academic integrity, but they also have to worry about the color of their skin. How can you reject someone for ethnicity, a characteristic that one is born with? One doesn’t have the choice to be born an Asian or French. Do we seriously think that having a proportionate number race in our education system is going to make things better? If so, then why not standardize the system everywhere? Why is it that here, in America, the land of freedom and equality, we are judging people based on where they come from? Higher education is a privilege that is earned and should be offered to everyone who is WILLING to work and can contribute to the community.

I’m extremely frustrated and disappointed in the direction that SCA 5 and public education is heading. I was talking to my young friend who is in high school now, and hearing her stress over college only deepened my frustration with public education. AP classes, sports, clubs, grades, and even when you seem like the perfect, qualified student, you STILL aren’t guaranteed a spot in college because guess what? Now you are competing against all the other Asians, Africans, Caucasians, etc. Suddenly, it becomes a battle of the hues instead of looking at what a person can bring to the community. I always thought college admissions would be fair and choose students based on their potential and dedication. Ha.

SCA 5, I believe, will deepen the cracks in our already broken, underfunded education system.

For more information

Taken from: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599369-asians-object-affirmative-action-not-black-and-white

Below are a few of my favorite comments from other people taken from the website:

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guest-swminjsMar 27th, 03:13

When you call Asian students, they are group of each individuals, but not a big can corn beef. They are one boy by one boy, one girl by one girl, as same as black students, as same as Latino students. Each of them has different smile, each of them has different figure print, each of them has his/her dream for his/her future.

Now, just because skin color, when he starts his first step out of his family to pursue his future, he is refused from his dream campus, not because he is not excellent, just because his skin filling holes are full.

You call this is diversity. [?]

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q9j3hWoS2vMar 20th, 22:16

In the late 1800s California and by Extension the whole U.S. passed a series of laws against Chinese and other Asians. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Asian Exclusion Act of 1975, Chinese Police Tax, Foreign Miners' Tax. These were aimed at Asians who seemingly worked harder, willing to take undesireable jobs (like launder clothes) for less pay, thus competing unfairly with Americans.

Now, Asians are under attack again for willing to study harder, take more advance level classwork, thus gaining an advantage when it comes to university admission. Thus competing "unfairly" with others seeking university admission.

Seen through this lens, SCA 5 is really the Asian Exclusion Act of 2014.

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