You may have heard the name “Corey Jackson” from CFER’s previous communications. Assemblymember Corey Jackson, first elected to the State Legislature in 2022 and reelected in 2024, has been a longtime foe to Prop. 209 and equality. In 2023, Asm. Jackson was the leading author of the failed ACA 7 which had sought to provide a “research-based/ informed” exemption mechanism to Prop. 209. In 2025, he introduced the new ACA 7, a partial repeal of Prop. 209 in its educational provisions.

During ACA 7’s hearing at the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee on June 9, 2026, Asm. Jackson went off with an emotional monologue when Asm. Steven Choi, a first-generation immigrant from South Korea challenged the notion of using racial preferences to address racial discrimination. Asm. Jackson yelled,

“There is a difference between your experience and my experience. My ancestors didn’t come here by choice. They are not immigrants. They were forced here… My ancestors as well as our Native American brothers and sisters were systematically stripped from their culture, their history, their religion, and their language. It was systematically done and enforced by the Supreme Court and by this government, including the State of California… Ever since after, institutions have systemically oppressed and marginalized black people.”

Such an outcry on grievances and victimhood stands in sharp contrast to a shocking news story regarding a nonprofit organization founded by the Assemblyman. Earlier this month, the Center Against Racism and Trauma (CART), a Riverside-based boutique nonprofit created by Asm. Jackson, was awarded $6 million by the California State Legislature. The generous grant, from taxpayers-funded General Fund, is supposed to help CART “expand anti-racism programming and trauma-recovery resources in the Inland Empire.”

One must ask: Where is the marginalization and where is the systematic oppression in this case?

To put things into perspective, CART was launched by Asm. Jackson in 2019 and started being active after 2020, seizing the racial-reckoning moment of Black Lives Matter. To accomplish its mission of fighting “against all forms of racism,” CART engages in “systems change,” “community action,” and “youth development.” The organization defines racism as “[p]rejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” Its website also provides definitions of “anti-racism,” “white privilege,” “white supremacy,” white fragility,”... In the last few years, CART has platformed prominent “scholars,” including Angela Davis, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DeAngelo and Dolores Huerta.

Notably, CART’s most recent 990 shows a $258,501 in revenue in 2024, a reasonable figure considering its small size and limited operational scope. Last month, CART hosted its annual antiracism summit online, featuring Asm. Jackson as its keynote speaker. Reportedly, CART had spent $44,720 on one of its previous zoom summits. In May, Asm. Jackson, who chairs the California Legislature Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services and sits on the Budget Committee, welcomed CART representatives to the State Legislature where they received the “Nonprofit of the Year” Award.

As the newest threat to California’s equal protection guarantee makes its way to the Senate floor for a vote, the State Legislature’s staunchest opponent to Prop. 209 has been found to be in active collaboration with an ideologically aligned nonprofit that just became the recipient of $6 million in public funding. Did the organization bid for the slush fund - courtesy of California taxpayers including many immigrants whom the Assemblyman disparaged as insufficiently marginalized, on the basis of merit? Grift? Collusion? You can draw your own conclusions.

One thing is clear. Absent any state funding support and against the political, cultural and corporate establishment, as we faced in 2020 in the “No on 16” battle, CFER is further resolved to defend Prop. 209 and equality. We have not stopped and will continue to raise public awareness on why California and America need equality. You can support us with a kind donation today. You can also join CFER as a valuable member!

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