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muntrv

(14,505 posts)
4. Best response to these "bake sales" is this:
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 10:57 PM
Oct 2013

"If you're going to compare the Bake Sale to Affirmative Action…the only way it would be comparable is if the flour, oven, and all baking materials were stolen from the people that are required to pay the lowest prices. And if the baked goods from all prior bake sales were made for free by the minorities while white students reaped all the profits…which resulted in unequal opportunities to purchase baked goods in the current sale."

SEE LINK BELOW
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/uc-berkeley-racist-bake-sale_n_979184.html

PATXgirl

(192 posts)
5. That is a great response. However your link means that there have been 2 respected campuses that
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 11:09 PM
Oct 2013

Have had them.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
6. Anyone else here notice that
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 11:57 PM
Oct 2013

they wrote Hispanics in the "Bake Sale" sign on one of the signs, but left them out the other? At least if you're going to run a so-called Affirmative Action bake sale, make your shit look professional.

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