Legal Advocacy Stops a Racially Exclusionary Scholarship at UC San Diego – California Globe
It also invited wrath from legacy media and race lobby
By Wenyuan Wu, October 30, 2025 2:06 pm
Wenyuan Wu
In the case of a joint legal challenge to halt the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, a 42-year-old program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the wheels of justice turned quickly.
Almost immediately after our lawsuit Californians for Equal Rights v. UC San Diego, et al. was filed in July, the defendants reached out, offering to settle. Specifically, they proposed replacing the scholarship with a race-neutral alternative named the Lennon Goins Alumni Scholarship Fund (GASF). As it stands at the inception, GASF awards UCSD students based on individual needs, merit and community service. We accepted the settlement and on October 20th, the case was dismissed, after the San Diego Foundation announced the new scholarship.
Thanks to our excellent legal counsel from the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented us free of charge, we were able to help eliminate a decades-long practice of racial spoils in less than three months. This victory also serves as a cornerstone for testing a legal theory arguing for equal protecting partly based on a provision of an anti-Ku Klux Klan (KKK) law against public-private collusion. Advocating for equality with the anti-KKK law, once intended to challenge rampant white supremacy in post-Civil-War American south, is ironically fitting, since the self-righteous race hustlers have replaced Klansmen to perpetuate racial divisions in America today.
Unfortunately, the blowback from legacy media and the race lobby is immediate and fierce. Following the announcement, journalist activists targeted and encircled a UCSD student – Kai Peters, who joined our lawsuit as a named individual plaintiff. Rather than reporting truthfully on Kai’s strong conviction against race-based policies, mainstream platforms concocted a false narrative, smearing the brave young man as a vindictive, pro-KKK student who sued “because he isn’t Black.” In spite of a complaint from me to correct record, the editors refused to retract the lie.
Within a few days, the inflammatory rhetoric snowballed as the original article was reprinted by dozens of outlets including: The Associated Press, LAist, Greenwich Time, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Observer, and others. The Daily Signal, a conservative outlet, recycled the misrepresentation that “he was denied the scholarship because he wasn’t black” in its otherwise positive coverage of the lawsuit.
On the UCSD campus, far-left students doxed Kai. A Reddit post, which has been removed by the moderators, called Kai “a huge Ku Klux Klan fanatic” and recruited help from the university community to locate him. Another removed Reddit post said: “UCSD student Kai Peters sues [because] he wasn’t awarded scholarship intended for Black students.” 
To accommodate their race-centric worldview, journalists readily forego integrity. “It is critical for journalists to report the words of interviewees accurately. It is therefore unacceptable for reporters to mischaracterize the words and views of an interviewee, especially when they are given written quotations that explicitly state the views of the interviewee,” commented Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Izumi added: “The importance of accuracy is especially important when the interviewee is a young person who is more vulnerable and is in an unfavorable position in any power dynamic.”
Inside Higher Ed ran a story on our settlement with a suggestive title – “Using an Anti-KKK Law to End a Black-Only Scholarship.” In it, the reporter graciously covered details of the legal theory, but also opted to note the racial identities of myself, Kai, and our attorney Mr. Jack Brown, as if our skin colors mattered and informed our viewpoints in the case.
AI picked up on the development, offering the following summary:
In October 2025, Wu and CFER made headlines for a lawsuit that ended a “Black-only” scholarship at the University of California, San Diego. The lawsuit used a version of an anti-KKK law and argued that civil rights are individual rights, not group rights. 
These headlines, many of which disparaging or dismissive of our effort to stop racial discrimination in the court of law, have also led to a formal cease-and-desist letter from a pro-reparation attorney, who accuse us of “targeted anti-Black harassment and hate.”
Through the intense backlash, we are ever-more resolved to stand firm and keep standing up for the cardinal principle of equal justice, which is radically colorblind and fundamentally individualist. We are standing firm in this truth because it is the right thing to do and because young individuals like Kai Peters can use the example of courage as they go out to the world to contend with evil schemes of race-centric thinking.
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” Ephesians 6: 12-13 (ESV).
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