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[But the ACLU argues that ending assistance to women and minorities will open the door to the discrimination that affirmative action was intended to remedy. In 1978,] The City of Los Angeles gave 2 percent of its contracts to minority and women business enterprises. Sacramento gave zero percent. Now those numbers are up to 10-15 percent, ... It (Proposition 209) is really resegregation in California.

Mark Rosenbaum

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