RSS Feed
September 27th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
(CNN) — An open plaza at the University of California Berkeley will be an epicenter Tuesday in the debate over affirmative action and college admissions.
On one side, Berkeley College Republicans will host their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” — a satirical event that will charge customers different prices based on race and gender.
Yards away, Berkeley’s student government — the Associated Students of the University of California — will host a phone bank in support of SB 185, legislation that would allow California universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin during the admissions process.
Neither side is backing down.
“We’re full speed ahead,” Berkeley College Republicans President Shawn Lewis said late Monday night. In light of recent threats made against supporters of the group, college Republicans from several other California universities have volunteered to come help staff the event, Lewis said.
During the sale, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1, black men for 75 cents and Native American men for 25 cents. All women will get 25 cents off those prices.
“We agree that the event is inherently racist, but that is the point,” Lewis wrote in response to upheaval over the bake sale. “It is no more racist than giving an individual an advantage in college admissions based solely on their race (or) gender.”
ASUC President Vishalli Loomba said many students who attended a community meeting Monday night expressed disgust that the bake sale will still take place.
“As a woman of color, when I first saw the event, I was appalled someone would post something like this on the Internet — not only a different pay structure, but also to rank the races,” she said. “It trivializes the struggles that people have been through and their histories.”
Lewis said he agreed a ranking system for races isn’t fair — not for bake sales, and not in other aspects of life.
“The purpose of the pricing structure … is to cause people to disagree with this kind of preferential treatment,” Lewis said. “We want people to say no race is above another race, or no race is below another one. Why put one over the other? Why rank them that way?”
But Lewis said his group will not enforce the price list.
“If a white guy comes up and says, ‘I want the price from an African-American female,’ we absolutely give him that price,” he said. Lewis said there can be complications with self-identifying a race — especially if a person is multiracial.
Events similar to the Berkeley bake sale have taken place at other colleges across the country, generally organized by college Republican groups. In some cases — such as at Berkeley — the plan sparked controversy and protests.
Other times, university officials stepped in.
At Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, officials shut down a similar bake sale on campus. Officials at The College of William and Mary in Virginia cut off a cookie sale, saying they were “shocked and appalled.”
The University of California, Irvine, shut down a bake sale on campus, saying it was discriminatory. And a bake sale at Southern Methodist University in Texas was shut down after 45 minutes because of what officials called an “unsafe environment,” according to local reports.
Loomba, Berkeley’s student government president, said she is concerned about students potentially feeling ostracized due to the bake sale.
“I have heard that from numerous students who have said this makes students feel unwelcome on campus,” she said. “For that reason alone, we should think about what events we have on campus.”
Lewis said the bake sale at Berkeley was unanimously agreed upon by the club, whose leadership includes Asian and Hispanic students and whose membership represents a “wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.”
“More than half of the voices were female,” he added.
But Berkeley’s student government held an emergency senate meeting Sunday to discuss the issue and passed a resolution that, in part, “condemns the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.”
“I completely support the idea of BCR — or any students on campus — (having) political discussion,” Loomba said. “I think student members of BCR have a full right to express their feelings, but I don’t necessarily think this tactic is constructive.”
But the bake sale is intended to be a direct, “physical counterpoint” to the ASUC-sponsored phone bank, during which students will be encouraged to call Gov. Jerry Brown’s office to support the legislation, Lewis said.
Loomba said the student government’s phone bank “is in support of (SB) 185,” and the ASUC has endorsed the bill.
As for where the bake sale proceeds will go, Lewis said the College Republicans are considering several charities.
But “because of all this controversy, we don’t want to advertise the organization,” he said. “We don’t want to cause them problems.”
Posted in 
Tags: 
