Posted on 09/23/2011 6:47:36 PM PDT by SmithL
A Facebook post announcing plans by a UC Berkeley Republican group to sell baked goods priced according to race, gender and ethnicity - "White/Caucasian" pastries for $2 and "Black/African American pastries for 75 cents, for example - has drawn outrage on campus.
"I'm ashamed to know that I go to the same school with people who would say stuff like this," responded student Skyler Hogan-Van Sickle on Facebook. "I'm really trying to figure out how someone can be this hateful."
The campus Republicans, who expect to go forward with their "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" on Tuesday, say the event is meant to mock an effort by the student government to drum up support for SB 185, a bill to let the University of California and the California State University consider ethnicity in student admissions. It's awaiting approval or veto by Gov. Jerry Brown.
"Our bake sale will be at the same time and location of a phone bank which will be making calls to urge Gov. Brown to sign the bill," posted six students who created the Facebook page. The purpose "is to offer another view to this policy of considering race in university admissions. The pricing structure of the baked goods is meant to be satirical."
But students say the joke is anything but funny. More than 200 students responded to the event, most opposed, and some violently so. One threatened to burn the table and set the cupcakes on fire. At least four student groups sent complaints to campus administrators, and a student-only meeting was set for Friday evening to discuss it.
...The posting describes five price levels for pastries, with the highest for "White/Caucasion," and the lowest for "Native American." A 25-cent discount is offered for women.
"If you don't come, you're a racist," the post declares.
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Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. approves the name.
(If you're old enough to understand this cultural reference, then you're old enough to yell "Hey, Kid! Get offa my yard!).
Here's his pic from Facebook. Not all that white bread. Must be adopted by rich liberals.
I loved Chatsworth. The role on the TV show was origonally played by Warren Beaty. The guy in the picture was way better. Herbert T. Gillis was great, too, played by Frank Faylen.
You are correct, sir. Warren Beatty only lasted six episodes as Chatsworth before Steve Franken took over the role.
And we shouldn't forget Tuesday Weld as "Thalia Menninger," Bob Denver as "Maynard G. Krebs," or Sheila James Kuehl as "Zelda Gilroy."
Please pardon my atrocious spelling.
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