This is an over simplification of a complex issue. Historically, minorities have been underrepresented and of course that needs to be addressed. Ignorance, hatred, institutional racism, and bigotry are the problems. But labeling this “whiteness” is counter productive and needlessly divisive.
Surprisingly, compared to the state population, caucasians are actually underrepresented in both the CSU and the UC systems.

Dr. Victor Davis Hansen is a respected Stanford historian and here is a clip from his longer reply. Of note he adds UC Davis in (and our water tower).

https://youtube.com/shorts/OvGaF9tDM2A?si=ys639E795_yaRxUc

Which is why we have had affirmative action since the 1960s, race-based scholarships, outreach, Head Start, extra funding, EOP, trillions of dollars spent on the War on Poverty, etc. BTW, recently some schools are further lowering standards, homework, and grading criteria.

The present-day problem appears to be a lowered educational proficiency nationwide, including many urban schools having 25% or less of students meeting basic proficiency standards. Many schools with multi-million-dollar budgets have zero percent proficiency. Yet we have a Califirnia Asian American student with a 4.4 GPA, top SAT scores, a Google job offer, who is rejected by twenty top universities including multiple UCs.

Here is the full VDH nine-minute reply with over 200,000 views. Some comments insightful, Dr. Wood gets a lot of heat.

https://youtu.be/2aW1BV-LuQw?si=FmosPo8hpKxNJVBa

Neat trick. Group “values” you don’t like and put a label on it explicitly tying those values to a racial group. Then you can stigmatize that group with the prepositioned defense that you were just talking about a bucket of “values”, not the group. A supplementary benefit of this approach is you can throw in things you don’t like like capitalism, punctuality, thinness, seemingly at random so no one really knows what you are talking about, and if they figure it out you can change the values so you remain a step ahead.

Did I miss something ? Is this Hornettalk.com now ? Not that I object to talking about Sac State sports (even though the football projections are getting pretty stale) ; I just wonder why we need to care what Luke Wood has to say about anything, especially regarding education ? Movie, are you trying to build a grassroots campaign to get him removed so he doesn't poison other colleges ? Are you trying to round up a posse ? If so, that would be something good to mention.

The Hornets are our top local rival. VDH including our water tower and plug was icing on the cake.

The sad irony is that some folks like Dr. Wood are lowering standards, which is counter productive.

I'm not trying to speak for anyone else when I say I would rather not have known what Wood said, but your headline told me about it without having to read the post. Before seeing it I thought Wood was just a smug douchebag, and a nut job when it came to the school's sports program. Now I think he's a racist (one who frames his racism as merely "educating others") who preaches about racism-a hypocrite. I feel like I liked him better as just a nutty douchebag, so thank you for ruining that illusion.

Aside from that, I don't think the best way to deal with these sorts of things is always to give them a voice with discussion. It's like going on Reddit and complaining about the worst TV commercials. I never post. Some people have nasty and funny reactions, but It accomplishes nothing but giving the companies free advertising. As people like to say nowadays, Wood is living rent-free in the heads of people he agitates.

I don't need the rebuttal if I don't hear the argument.