This liberal policy actually looks like a form of racism.

Hanna Krueger reports at the College Fix.

$20 million affirmative-action program at UC-Berkeley is against the law, critics claim

Nearly two decades after Californians voted to ban the consideration of race in public university admissions, the flagship campus of the University of California system is taking measures to get around Proposition 209.

UC-Berkeley unveiled the African American Initiative last month, raising eyebrows among academic groups who not only question its legality but think it “perpetuates a sort of racism,” as one scholar told The College Fix.

The school describes the initiative as “a comprehensive effort to address the underrepresentation of African American students, faculty, and staff at our university, and improve the climate for those who are here now and all who will join our community in the future.”

It plans to increase recruitment of African American applicants, aided by a planned $20 million endowed scholarship fund in cooperation with private nonprofits; the hiring of race-specific clinical psychologists; and the diversification of UC-Berkeley’s faculty and upper management.

The Black Student Union highlighted the counseling provisions among others, in a press release last week on the website of the Afrikan Black Coalition, a “statewide collective of Black students.”

“The campus has just hired a Black woman psychologist and is in the process of establishing a search committee, with a BSU representative, for a search of an additional Black psychologist this fall,” the BSU said. The school “pledged to reserve two positions within Counseling and Psychological services for psychologists who have demonstrated experience working with Black communities.”