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Thread ID: 5043 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-02-16
2003-02-16 04:09 | User Profile
Democrats riled by race-, gender-biased bake sale
DAILY BRUIN ONLINE Feb. 15, 2003
[img]http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/images/2003/2/14/1ns.democrats.picA.jpg[/img] JONATHAN YOUNG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Chris Riha, third-year business economics student, discusses affirmative action.
An affirmative action bake sale organized by the Bruin Republicans last week has provoked impassioned responses from a top California Democrat and political student groups on campus.
The sale, held on Bruin Walk on Feb. 3, offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and gender. Black, Latina and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents. White females were charged $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.
Students selling the cookies were assigned name tags portraying them as "Uncle Tom," "The White Oppressor" and "Self-Hating Hispanic Race Traitor." ... The intent of the sale, Jones said, was to "bring the issue (of affirmative action) down to everyday terms. We wanted to show how affirmative action is racial division, not racial reconciliation."
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2003-02-16 16:45 | User Profile
:D :D :D
I'd rather have these kids running the Republican Party than it's current leadership.
What makes this even funnier is that Proposition 209 banned racial preferences in California. Naturally its opponents screamed "racist" every chance they got, while making no attempt to hide their hatred of whites. Then when it passed, they said they'd ignore the law. I wonder how UCLA gets around it.
2003-02-17 01:37 | User Profile
I think people should have the choice about whether Affirm-Act should exist. People should opt either "in" or "out". If you are in favor, then you must give up your job/school acceptance/promotion up first. If you are "out", then you are exempt.
Surely all the "pro-choice" Democrats will enjoy being given the choice to participate in this system.
-Jay