So Tuesday, UC Berkeley went ahead with its purposely racist “Diversity Bake Sale.” The bake sale charges white people more for baked goods than people of color, with women getting a $0.25 discount. The purpose of this is to protest what the group sees as the racist practice of considering an applicant’s race and/or gender in the school admission process.
If you’ve been following for a whlie, you know that I went to a pretty racist school. What you don’t know is that I actually attended one such bake sale. And what else you don’t know is this: sure, minorities get discounted goods, but those goods are not created equally.
I attended the sale with a good friend of mine, Adam, a white male (I am a black female), and we noticed something interesting after reading the ingredients labels on our cupcakes (we checked after I noticed that mine was surprisingly bitter while Adam’s apparently tasted like good times and happiness). I saved the labels:
Guess which one the white folks got?
So sure. My cupcake was discounted. That’s kind of just a drop in the bucket compared to everything else I still have to digest.
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“Hydrogenated Everything” needs to be the title of a rap anthem.
I Second that Emotion!!!
Womp. Womp. I can’t believe students haven’t come up with more creative ignorance than this. The minority bake sale idea is so played out. “Majority” students were doing that when I was still in high school (1999-2003), and it’s 2011.
“Post Racial,” my behind. People need to get over themselves. Demands for white privilege & entitlement are becoming more & more acceptable, I see.
Eff The Man for even using CUPCAKES to keep us down! That’s some evil ish. *Black Power fist*
I fainted at those ingredients, doe. Fainted, I say. I got back up, doe. Can’t nobody hold me down. Oh no.
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