"I don't see the irony, said Joshua Thompson, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the plaintiffs. The idea is that we don't want government actors out forcing their discrimination."
"He said his rejection is an example of institutionalized racism a phrase that was created in part to characterize how government institutions discriminate against Black Americans."
"The scholarship fund has awarded nearly $60 million to more than 15,400 students since its founding, the press release said."
Students and a right-leaning nonprofit sued UC San Diego over a scholarship limited to Black alumni descendants, alleging violations of multiple laws including the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. One plaintiff, Kai Peters, said he was denied the scholarship because he is not Black and described the rejection as institutionalized racism. The university renamed the program the Goins Alumni Scholarship Fund, removed race-based restrictions, and noted the fund has awarded nearly $60 million to more than 15,400 students. The change came amid broader legal and policy shifts affecting race-conscious initiatives and university diversity practices.
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