Affirmative action wasn't banned in Calif* until 1997. The lion kingdom spent 1 year of college during a time when skin color was used for financial aid & admissions, but thereafter went to private school which didn't factor skin color.

The trick with affirmative action is what they consider a disadvantaged minority. If the disadvantaged minority is a small fraction of students like women majoring in CS, it actually doesn't reverse discriminate.

In Calif*, disadvantaged minorities are usually the majority & they're not disadvantaged. Most of the college students are women & asians whose parents file as corporations & report income below the threshold they need to get financial aid, so affirmative action ends up making the rich richer. Calif* is also the world's largest economy, so a minority in Calif* is a majority relative to the rest of the world.

The trick with Calif* is it doesn't matter what the voters say. Eventually, the governor overrides all elections. They've been trying to reinstate affirmative action for 15 years & eventually will, regardless of the votes.

Lions are just against using skin color on the basics of ethics, even though they never delivered the right pickup lines to create a college student.