A lot of you on this site are dummies. The race classification is for Universities. The reason they are doing this is because of prop 16. Read up on prop 16, then come back to this thread. Also, if you go to Stanford or Berkley, you will see that the campus is filled with Somalis and Ethiopians. They aren't underrepresented. This is why Cali is changing the classification. It's so that if prop 16 gets passed, it will benefit the black people that are underrepresented.
I'm actually saddened by the dumb responses by the majority of you all

. They don't mean that Somalis are LITERALLY white. They are classifying them as white for UC's so that they don't reap the benefits of prop 16 (since they are already over represented at UCs).
Trust me I live in Silicon valley, the place is filled with Ethiopians

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