Lacy: Institutional racism against Asians is ignored in latest from California’s Senators and legacy media.

California is a racist State.  The Democrats have inserted the racism of DEI into our schools and colleges.  They have tried to demand it in our corporations.  No longer are students enrolled based on their abilities—they are enrolled based on their color.  Worse, they are NOT enrolled due to their color and the Asian community is the hardest hit.  This even though it is illegal to discriminate in California.

“Discrimination against Asian Americans in California institutions is invidious, long-term and real. In a recent lawsuit filed against the University of California Berkeley, (https://apnews.com/article/university-of-california-discrimination-lawsuit-ed1856b8228322a5a941f09ebbd00972) a group called Students Against Racial Discrimination alleges the university system admits students with inferior academic credentials at the expense of better-qualified ones, and that this results in discrimination against Asians and other minority groups. Asian American and white applicants are discriminated against because of their race, while Latino and Black students are “often placed at a significant academic disadvantage, and thus experience worse outcomes, because of the university’s use of racial preferences,” the complaint alleges.

A survey in Berkeley in 2021 found twice as many Asians suffered physical attacks during the pandemic as other races. (https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/05/12/anti-asian-harassment-widespread-berkeley-survey). And the discrimination is long-standing. As long ago as 1989, UC Berkeley publicly apologized for policies limiting Asians. (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-07-mn-1075-story.html)

California in 2025 is no different than Alabama in 1960.  I expect the new DOJ will end this racism.  Eisenhower desegregated the schools.  Trump will do it again.  It takes a Republican to end the vile racism of the Democrats.

Institutional racism against Asians is ignored in latest from California’s Senators and legacy media.

Attacks by New York Times, LA Times and California Senators on DOJ Civil Division ignore long-standing un-addressed Asian discrimination

James Lacy, Subtrack,  4/30/25  https://jamesvlacy.substack.com/p/institutional-racism-against-asians?r=isn9j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ_bqlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFvUDlBZFBWTlhiRFduejF0AR4BA2xuvDeZKEkrYgBF1HzfvZcvjwbnVF4DVeRi-uHLYn2AYSbOZDiB79frSw_aem_Mans_uBzUsmfvQ-iBJBXiA&triedRedirect=true

An article in the Los Angeles Times today (https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-30/department-of-justice-civil-rights-division-harmeet-dhillon) criticizing Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon for refocusing the Civil Division’s enforcement priorities consistent with the new President’s platform, evidences a familiar tool in the Left’s playbook. The piece regurgitates a very similar piece published the day before in the New York Times. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/trump-doj-civil-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.SBp-.qkWFdsMYu_SA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare). I had some experience with this progressive news two-step when I was a General Counsel in the Reagan Administration and can see what is coming. Combined the pieces tell us that the advocates of DEI and woke policies, who would rather have the Department of Justice suing police departments across the country on innuendo and whispers of racism rather than solid facts, are building a case which will repeat itself again and again in the news, like a bad case of GERD, that Trump’s Civil Rights division is not about civil rights law at all. California’s Senators are an integral part of this program, and jumped on the New York Times reporting calling for disclosure of new internal directives and oversight hearings in a joint letter with other Democrats, just in time for publication of the LA Times followup. (https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Welch-DOJ-Civil-Rights-Division-Oversight-Request.pdf).

But what the Senators and the legacy media don’t mention at all in their letters and reporting, is institutional racial discrimination against Asians, which Trump’s policies on DEI and anti-wokeism mean to address. This includes a review of the evidence of institutional racism against Asians and Jews at America’s foremost universities.

Discrimination against Asian Americans in California institutions is invidious, long-term and real. In a recent lawsuit filed against the University of California Berkeley, (https://apnews.com/article/university-of-california-discrimination-lawsuit-ed1856b8228322a5a941f09ebbd00972) a group called Students Against Racial Discrimination alleges the university system admits students with inferior academic credentials at the expense of better-qualified ones, and that this results in discrimination against Asians and other minority groups. Asian American and white applicants are discriminated against because of their race, while Latino and Black students are “often placed at a significant academic disadvantage, and thus experience worse outcomes, because of the university’s use of racial preferences,” the complaint alleges.

A survey in Berkeley in 2021 found twice as many Asians suffered physical attacks during the pandemic as other races. (https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/05/12/anti-asian-harassment-widespread-berkeley-survey). And the discrimination is long-standing. As long ago as 1989, UC Berkeley publicly apologized for policies limiting Asians. (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-07-mn-1075-story.html)

But there is no mention of the fact that Trump’s policies will refocus the Civil Division on these problems, and even under an Asian American Assistant AG, Dhillion herself! The New York Times piece makes no mention of Asian discrimination now coming into focus as an enforcement issue; rather, it focuses on alleged demoralization of the civil service who are saddened to change their very different progressive era priorities. That is an old saw the Left uses whenever a Republican administrator takes charge. (I have seen and lived it).

Similarly, the Los Angeles Times piece does not use the word “Asian,” although it does use the word “transgender” to lament a shift in enforcement priorities away from “transgender.” There are six million Asians living in California alone. The California Department of Public Health optimistically reports there are 220,000 transgender identifying people in the California.

By shear numbers, the Asian community deserves at least the priority that transgender policies have had at the Department of Justice, and the facts of historical institutional discrimination against Asians validates AG Dhillion’s implementation of an anti-woke, anti-DEI program aimed to level the justice system and help achieve the most important motto chiseled in stone above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court building “Equal Justice Under Law.”