The UCB college Republicans created a bake sale that has the following price scale:
- White Men: $2.00
- Asian Men: $1.50
- Latino Men: $1.00
- Black Men: $0.75
- Native American Men:$0.25
- All Women receive $0.25 off those prices
As CNN reports, this bake-sale is to make a statement against the proposed California law allowing the University to take into account the race of a potential student when making admission decisions.
The bill clearly states, "The University of California may, consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors,
in undergraduate and graduate admissions, so long as no preference is given."
Politics aside, the real issue at hand is how students are deciding to handle their views. Instead
of making a flyer and having students sign a petition in opposition of the bill,
they decided to make a statement through being offensive. Many students of many different
races are offended by the bake sale - as they should be. It was meant to be controversial and raise hell. But isn't
there a better way of stating your beliefs? Not everything has to be jaw dropping to be effective.
To the Campus Republican's credit, they have brought this issue to the forefront of many
individual's minds. Unfortunately, their public displays of racism have caused most people who otherwise may have listened to the Campus Republican's viewpoint to be turned off and closed to their ideas.
The bake sale will still take place on September 27. Hopefully, the Campus Republicans at UCB
realize their desire for student's attention has turned into student's glares of disgust.
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