From UCLA
That mountain top of equal opportunity lapses farther and farther away for black men when it comes to California higher education, according to a scathing new study that piles the data on to show a dismally segregated, apartheid-like system that forces African Americans into an ever steeper, daunting climb to get to and through state schools. The scholar-authors of the report show that the UCs have become the domain of whites and those of Asian descent; that white women and Asians have benefited most from the civil rights movement that black men launched and suffered the most through; that the CSU system increasingly assists Latinos; that blacks, if they have any entree to the higher educational system at all, see it only at the community college level. The researchers emphasize that rotten K-12 education for blacks puts them at disadvantage to start. But they also raise some deeply troubling issues about discrimination against blacks in the Golden State, one of the nation's largest populations of African Americans: Why do black men make up such an infinitesimal number of the UC profs and students but such a huge chunk of inmates in state prisons? Why do black and brown poor people in California pay taxes at the same rate as rich whites and Asians to support state higher education when the system excludes them so completely? And why do African American women outnumber black men so hugely in almost all levels of higher ed?
UCs for whites, Asians only, CSUs for Latinos, community colleges offer scant hope for blacks?
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