Posted on 09/27/2011 10:03:10 AM PDT by SmithL
I don't know about the political ethics or math skills of the UC Berkeley students who came up with the idea for an Increase Diversity Bake Sale, but they certainly know how to draw a crowd.
The student Republican group that sponsored a race-based bake sale set to be held on the campus today must have been counting on raising more than just the cookie dough.
There are few places in America more reactionary than a college campus, and among them, UC Berkeley is a leader.
A bake sale flyer posted on Facebook last week linked the price of pastries to the race, ethnicity or gender of the buyer so that "White/Caucasians" are charged $2, "Asian/Asian-Americans," $1.50; "Latino/Hispanic" $1; "Black/African Americans," 75 cents; Native Americans 25 cents and a 25 cent discount to all women.
The bake sale creators have no understanding of how race works in America.
In a country whose earliest beginnings relied on an economic system that placed a price tag on the value of a black man, and carried out genocide against its native inhabitants, you would have to be tone-deaf to promote such an idea. Unless of course, all you really wanted was some attention focused on your cause.
Student organizers said the point of the bake sale was to mock a bill now on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk that would allow university officials to consider race, ethnicity and gender as factors in its student admission decisions. Prop 209 prohibits public universities from considering an applicant's race, gender and ethnicity.
It may have been presented as nothing more than a bit of political theater created to shine a light on a legitimate policy issue, but it came off as mean-spirited.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The new country was not always friendly to Indians, with infamous examples like the Trail of Tears, but often it was friendlier to Indians than their fellow Indians were. And ultimately it gave Indians most of their wish, which was to be let alone on private lands and passively get funds from treaties and mineral rights -- which could have been a pot of jam for them, but largely they languish.
It was long suspected by anthropologists that what we know as American Indians were peoples who crossed a land bridge to North America which briefly existed across what we now call the Bering Strait. It joined what we call Siberia today to what we call Alaska today.
I’m not aware of genetic proofs that tie American Indians to oriental peoples. That was long a debated question. Who carried that out?
How much mileage do these people really want to get out of old grievances? Virtually everyone had ancestors that were somebody else’s slaves or conquered people. And present day color or race has little to do with that. That is a cheap minded wild goose chase.
Lift the rock. Listen to the howls of agony,
What is more ‘mean spirited’ then denying acceptance based on merit? What is more mean spirited then saying that it is not your hard work and accademics that matter but how you look that matters?
I'd have to see more evidence to be convinced of that. The Psanish and Portuguese internarried with Indians to such a great extent that the mixed-race population now makes up the substantial majority of Latin American societies. There was a substantial cultural as well as genetic fusion.
Whereas, as I nuderstand it, intermarriage between English-speaking settlers and tribal people was far more rare. Most Indians in North America were firmly pushed back and then segregated into reservations. (A possible, partial exception might be the mixture of Scotch-Irish and Cherokee in Appalachia.)
Sounds like they understand it perfectly. Chip on the other hand, not so much.
Or
Shove it up your SMELLY OBAMASS, libs.
>>>Im not aware of genetic proofs that tie American Indians to oriental peoples. That was long a debated question. Who carried that out?<<<
Mitochondrial DNA studies seem to indicate that some of the ancestors of Native Americans came from central Asia, with the ancestors of modern Europeans moving east and the Native Americans moving west. There’s a lot of speculation about how Native people came to North America, including by boat along the coast. Eskimoan peoples have definite Asian origins and got to North America recently, in comparison. I can see it in my classroom - the Yup’ik kids often look very Chinese, while the Athabascan kids look almost European, except for the slightly brown skin.
In any case... the Berkeley students put on a brilliant satire. Which is why they pissed off so many people.
the truth hurts....the rest of the country might not be this way, but the bay area is anti-white. Especially anti-white male. Can’t wait to leave...
So says the AA-hired SF Chronicle writer...LOL
In a country whose earliest beginnings relied on an economic system that ... carried out genocide against its native inhabitants, you would have to be tone-deaf to promote such an idea.Let him look up the story of this mother.
The heroine Hannah Duston, Killer of Genocidal Indians.
I live here, too.
I want OUT.
Cant wait to leave...I'll race you.
Picky, picky, picky science students.
Didn't you know that this is about metaphysics? True! The lack of melanin is the Mark of Cain. I read it in the Daily Worker, so I know it's true! </s>
Did I miss something or is a bill to allow university officials to consider race, etc. in its student admission decisions completely illegal?
I worry some about my adopted son from the Russian Far East, who is not outstandingly academically gifted,but IS classified as Asian (he is an indigenous tribal Kamchatkan by ethnicity.) He has it all against him, by being "average" in academic aptitudes, and "Asian" --- expected to do a whole LOT BETTER than average --- by census classification.
I'm thinking he should re-define himself as Russian. But no: that would be white, and so not much better, quota-wise. Would "Pacific islander" be better? Kamchatka isn't exactly a Pacific Island, but for ethnicity, it's the same "stock." (Hate that word.).
This isn't him, but similar. Vanya's Russian, but not at all Slavic or European; Indigenous Pacific RFE, but not exactly Asian.
Gad. I despise the intricate race discrimination imposed on us by the Left and their stupid diversity schemes.
In a country whose earliest beginnings relied on an economic system that placed a price tag on the value of a black man ... you would have to be tone-deaf to promote such an ideaLet him make himself aware of the following cold hard facts of life:
Until Mr. Johnson sued to keep his slaves for life, there was no lifetime slavery in the colonies that would become the US of A.
Can’t get any more mean spirited than diversity racism and it’s systematic discrimination.
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