What do you think of the Affirmative Action Bake Sale?

Question

Not all college students support racial preferences and some students made their feelings known in a highly innovative way. They organized a campus cookie sale, but not your ordinary cookie sale. They offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and sex. Black, Latino and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for a cookie while their male counterparts were charged 50 cents. White females were charged 1 dollar. White males were charged 2 dollars.

Here's my question for those who condemned the event. Why be offended by a money version of racial preferences? If racial preferences, highlighted by the cookie, are wrong and offensive, why wouldn't it also be wrong and offensive in the University's admissions practices? After all the Affirmative Action Bake Sale was merely "promoting diversity" in cookie ownership.

justagirl: If you would kindly read my profile, that would answer your question. Revolution is great when it something like the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress. Murder, oppression and terror, however, are wrong.

Answer 1

I agree 100%, I think affirmative action, while a good attempt in diversity. Is inherently a racist stand, maybe not in quite drastic forms of racism as seen in the past, but it is still racism non the less. because it segregates, isolates, and treats another person unfairly because of their race, class, or gender.

College applications should leave the race, sex, and names right off the application all together. The judgment should be made solely on the academic and extracurricular performance only. Name, race, and sex should have nothing to do with it. This would allow for the most fairly and appropriately placed students.

Answer 2

In one sense it is providing diversity in cookie ownership - more minorities are able to afford cookies but you have gone about it the wrong way.

The best way to demonstrate racial preferences would be to offer different amounts of money to different races for the SAME JOB. Affirmative Action is not about charging White people more or minorities less - it is about evening up the odds because white males and females have a clear advantage in the working world (run by mostly white males who then tend to hire white males and pay them more).

The cookie sale merely looks at the mechanics of affirmative action at colleges but the effect it is supposed to have or the causes. AA is not perfect but until a better solution is presented, I don't see what is better - and don't think I can't see that AA is pretty a form of discrimination, it is, but it is a counter-balance to other discrimination and NO, two wrongs don't make a right.

Answer 3

You should probably educate yourself on affirmative action.
And I think you know the answer to your own question. The reason the bakesale is wrong is because it is making fun of affirmitive action. Why don't you have someone dress up like a cookie and show them being raped and tortured? How about steralized? How about a cookie in poverty? Or a cookie without equal opportunity to recieve higher education? What about a cookie that can't get a promotion because of the glass ceiling affect? A bake sale cannot portray these things.
You are just trying to stir up the affirmative action issue once again. Congrats to you it worked... You just made it harder for people of color to get a break, you must feel great about yourself.

Answer 4

this is ladies who've been the biggest benefactor of affirmative action, so it might look that focusing all affirmative action as one in all race is a concern. i might have suspended pupils.

Answer 5

So, you are against Che Guevara?

Hmm. What is the point of that? Or you just hate revolution? I've got to know.

Answer 6

I love it! How much money did they make?