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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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-clayton/uc-berkeley-racist-bake-sale_b_986280.html
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