Mocking affirmative action brings threats of violence on Berkley Campus

[Christians4LessGvt]

US students spark racism row with bake sale

Sep 25, 2011

A California students' group has sparked a racism and sexism row over plans for a bake sale in which people are charged according to their ethnic background and gender.

Campus Republicans at the University of California, Berkeley say critics have overreacted to their event planned for this week, which they insist is a protest over affirmative action.

The group's Facebook page lists the price of baked goods at the sale according to race: $2 for whites, $1.50 for Asians, $1 for Hispanics, $0.75 for blacks and $0.25 for Native Americans. "$0.25 FOR ALL WOMEN!" it added.

Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis said the idea of the "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" was to highlight a legislative bill to let California public universities consider race and gender in their admissions process.

He said they planned to go ahead with the sale on Tuesday despite protests and threats. "We didn't expect the volume, the amount of response that we got," he told CNN.

"In the first few hours, hundreds of posts on our Facebook page. And the tone of some of the responses -- we expected people to be upset. We didn't expect personal threats to be made.

"They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organizers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats."

But the famous US college's student Democrats president Anais LaVoie has asked for an apology.

"The way they made the statement, the words that they used, the fact that they humorized and mocked the struggles of people of color on this campus is very disgusting to me," LaVoie said, cited by ABC television.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.07e4e485d632e6bd3d802d6be0ffada7.1e1&show_article=1

[kimba1]

but how can it be racism if whites pay 2 dollars and I think it`s unfair asians pay $1.50 it should be $1.00

[Kramer]

but how can it be racism if whites pay 2 dollars and I think it`s unfair asians pay $1.50 it should be $1.00

it wouldn't be racism if they all paid the same amount.

[BT]

And who says we don't have inflation:

Student groups gathered Wednesday to protest and support Dr. James Anderson taking office as vice president and associate provost for institutional assessment and diversity.

One student group, the Texas A&M chapter of Young Conservatives of America held an affirmative action bake sale in protest.

"We're out here today to show our objections to this new administrative position," said Mark McCaig, communications director for the YCT.

After YCT announced its intentions to hold the bake sale, the Department of Multicultural Services urged multicultural student organizations to show their support for Anderson by setting up tables at Rudder Fountain. Several organizations rallied against the bake sale outside the Academic Building.

"This is probably the most diverse group of students I've ever seen on campus," said Nick Anthis, president of the Texas Aggie Democrats.

The bake sale, not meant to raise money but merely raise awareness about affirmative action, offered store-bought baked goods for sale at prices based on race. Asians had to pay $1 for baked goods, whites 75 cents, Hispanics 25 cents, and African Americans 10 cents.

The reason for the pricing was symbolic; those who paid the most at the bake sale paid the most because of affirmative action. Asians paid the most because they are put at the greatest disadvantage by affirmative action, McCaig said.

http://www.thebatt.com/2.8485/a-m-diversity-draws-debate-1.1208182

[Plane]

  Is the same set of persons offfended at tuition being priced according to ethnic membership?