Darrell IssaVerified account

“The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” I proudly served as the chairman the initiative to add this fundamental right to our Constitution in 1996.

Extreme Democrats in the State Legislature now want to remove the anti-discrimination right from the State Constitution and bring racial discrimination roaring back to California. This is outrageous, but hardly surprising considering the Democrat Party’s history.

The Democrat Party’s efforts to divide us by race have poisoned our politics. They started the civil war to defend slavery, formed the KKK, passed Jim Crow, opposed the civil rights act in 1964, and willingly let anarchists and criminals abuse the residents of our large cites.

I am a Republican because I firmly believe in the right of all Americans, regardless of race, to have the opportunity to succeed. As the grandson of immigrants who fled the Ottoman Empire’s persecution of Christians, this issue is personal to me.

MLK famously said “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.” Intolerance of discrimination against or for any person is fundamental to our republic.