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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If you had pure competition, our elite universities would be 70% asian.
When Poppy Bush had become President, it coincided with the Democracy movement student rebellion in China in which the Old Military Veterans brought out the tanks; but, while he had campaigned in Princeton against Pierre du Pont,IV -- Bush,sr. discovered that his Moderate Republican friends in Princeton were economically doing very well and he decided to tax these business men on their inventories. Six years before, I had received a message from other women asking if I would like to join a class-action suit against the State Dept. ("an Equal Opportunity Employer" who and...) which had quit hiring us although we had passed the exam and qualified. Now, when I went to the Dillon Gym on campus for coed phys-ed classes, or to use the pool, or the bike room, or the "Foreign Food Festival": I recognized the faces of the Chinese dissidents on that latter occasion. They were being hidden throughout the East Coast academic network.
Nixon Shanghai Communique, I decided not to approach the library at Harvard, Yenching, where Kissinger taught but instead wrote to the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Princeton, James Tung-shir, whom the library secretaries refered to as Jimmy Tung-shir. "Jimmy" had arrived at Princeton as a "slave" to a man from China who, having received money from a Princeton businessman by the name of Gelb who requested that he begin boatload packing crates of rare Chinese books/shu, did so before the war of Imperialist Japanese invasion, which they had known for some time would occur. Mr. Gelb knew he was going blind and suspected that somewhere within all those classics from China would be found the cure for his impending blindness. Tung-shir wrote back to me, in the years before Mao died, and told me that I could borrow anything on interlibrary loan that I requested, "in honor of the merit of your teacher" whose translations of Asian poetry,"Jimmy" recognized.
Pay increases for generously paid Faculty is arrogance
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UC Berkeley (ranked # 70 Forbes) tuition increases exceed the national average rate of increases. Chancellor Birgeneau has molded Cal. into the most expensive American public university.
President Yudof and Chancellor Birgeneau have dismissed many much needed cost-cutting options. They did not consider freezing vacant faculty positions, increasing class size, requiring faculty to teach more classes, doubling the time between sabbaticals, cutting and freezing pay and benefits for all chancellors and and reforming the pension system.
They said faculty such reforms “would not be healthy for University of California”.
We agree it is far from the ideal situation, but it is in the best interests of the university system and the state to hold the line on cost increases. UC cannot expect to do business as usual: raising tuition; granting pay raises and huge bonuses during a weak economy that has sapped state revenues and individual Californians’ income.
Opinions? Email the UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu
The notion that less white males will get jobs to promote "diversity" is a lie and is inherently racist. First, it presupposes that gender and race are accurate proxies for diversity. Put another way - it is largely irrelevant where you grew up, what your family structure was, what your income was, etc. It all is a function of skin color. This inherent characteristic argument is a derivative of what slave owners used to argue and is now being perversely applied to promote racism.
As for stopping whining - AA policies were historically out of control. In the Univ. of Michigan case, a minority applicant would get more admission points on an admissions scale than a white male with a perfect SAT score and a history of being a concert musician. It was outrageous in 2003 and it's still outrageous now.
I would also question why blacks don't stop whining. AA doesn't promote "minorities" in any way. First, whites are a minority in a number of states where the AA policies are enforced. White males are always a minority. Second, AA is hugely negative for Asian-Americans and Jews. Why a poor Asian-American who came to this country not knowing English should be dinged for their "privilege" is so far beyond me that I can't even comment on the point.
As for AA now, I identify as black/African American. Why? Because the gov't can't prove that I'm not and I want the benefits that come with it.
Some have but as far as I can see they are no longer republicans, they are either independent or dems.
The republicans seem to believe that slavery is a good thing. I think they are just to lazy to get out and do the work themselves, or just not smart enough.
I live in a small town, we only had a few black families. One of them lived about half a block down the street. We got to be good friends. Bill got drafted and sent to Vietnam and his brother and I played in a rock and roll band together for years. Bill made it back from Vietnam. He would travel with our band on the weekends. Bills oldest brother died in Vietnam. I remember the funeral as though it was yeaterday
one of the members of our band played taps from the woods surrendering the cemetary.
It was heart breaking. Bill still lives in the same house he grew up in. We are still good friends always greeted with a hug. Comon republicans we are all brothers, get over it!
Treating people different based on the color of their skin is racist. Both the bake sale, and the California Law would do that.
The bake sale was highlighting how both it; and the law; were racist.
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"Asian is not a minority at MIT"
Notice how Asians have strong familial networks that span continents and few issues w/ paternal absenteeism
Notice how Asians have established communities to move to and barring that
notice how Asians don't automatically get their credit run when renting an apartment
Notice how despite our terrible driving, we're not racially profiled.
Notice how I recognise my own privilege in this society.
but the ingredients listed for the second label are not real ingredients,
thus it cannot establish that the two were different in composition as there appears to be no real world correlation between that ingredients list and the actual cupcake.
moreover, if they gave you a cupcake with that 2nd label, they are pointing out that minorities get the short end of the stick in our society... which is true and which would be something one would have expected them to dispute rather than to admit.
I must say I don't really understand this post at all.
Did the two cupcakes actually taste different, or is that a rhetorical device?
Yeah, we got that.
There is much to suspect about the verasity of this report.