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Roguish Lawyer
09-27-2011, 15:28
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/hundreds-protest-diversity-bake-sale-at-uc-berkeley.html
I used to do this kind of stuff in college. Had a big rally against one of our better campaigns.
I saw that - maybe all hope is not lost on the Berkeley college campus.
:lifter
......................for this type of bake sale and it drives the libs nuts every time.
This bake sale is usually brought out when something about "equal rights" is stiring on campus.
This one is over a bill on the Gov's desk about considering race, ethnicity and gender in college admissions.
The libs are all for considering race, ethnicity and gender as long as it's not at a bake sale. Irony is lost on Libs.
What do you do later in life with a degree in anthropology and rhetoric? Teach obscure tribal peoples how to debate?
The Reaper
09-27-2011, 17:47
The left is all up in the air over this atrocity.
Meanwhile, the lib activists commit murder, arson, larceny, burn the flag, asault LEOs, but that is all covered under their Constitutional rights.
Some animals really are more equal than others. :rolleyes:
TR
PedOncoDoc
09-27-2011, 18:02
I find it funny that someone was protesting the exclusion of "queers" from the groups singled out in the bake sale.
Like OMG, maybe that inclusiveness stuff isn't even covered until junior year...
UC Berkeley College Republicans excluded from coalition town hall meeting
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/09/26/members-of-berkeley-college-republicans-excluded-from-town-hall-meeting-of-student-coalition-seeking-to-promote-multiculturalism/
By Travis Bickham | Staff
tbickham@dailycal.org
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 12:47 am
Members of the Berkeley College Republicans were excluded from the town hall meeting of a coalition of UC Berkeley students seeking to promote multiculturalism and open dialogue on Friday night.
The coalition was meeting to discuss a response to the highly controversial “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” being organized by the campus Republican organization.
It's a disproportionate offering.
If it were truly representative of contemporary society, the blacks would be charged nothing, and would be given a cell phone to boot.
TOMAHAWK9521
09-27-2011, 19:34
I remember when we were deployed to A-stan back in '02, one of the guys back in the rear, stateside sent us a newspaper clipping from the CSU Coloradoan newspaper. A bunch of hippie freaks were having a hunger strike in opposition to the war. To counter them, some of the frat houses got together to hold a barbecue right next to the hunger strikers. It was a really funny picture of a guy flipping burgers for waiting customers while the pathetic losers were sitting down in the background holding protest signs. :D
What do you do later in life with a degree in anthropology and rhetoric? Teach obscure tribal peoples how to debate?One can work for .GOV as a spy.
Anthropologists have been concerned with such activity since the Wilson administration. <<LINK (http://www.thenation.com/article/anthropologists-spies?page=full)>>, <<LINK2 (http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/CW-PUB.htm)>>, <<LINK3 (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/10/08/efforts_to_aid_us_roil_anthropology/)>>, <<LINK4 (http://blog.theasa.org/?p=48)>>.
One can work for .GOV as a spy.
Anthropologists have been concerned with such activity since the Wilson administration. <<LINK (http://www.thenation.com/article/anthropologists-spies?page=full)>>, <<LINK2 (http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/CW-PUB.htm)>>, <<LINK3 (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/10/08/efforts_to_aid_us_roil_anthropology/)>>, <<LINK4 (http://blog.theasa.org/?p=48)>>.
:eek:
Foggy Bottom
09-28-2011, 03:45
I went to Cal and I was a member of the Berkeley College Republicans.
While in the admissions process, advisors encourge minority students to find a way to mention their ethnic background in their admissions essay so the admissions officers know that they're a minority, thereby subverting the process of ethnic blindness.
The diversity bake sale is actually nothing new. They had it every year that I was there.
^I can say that not in a gazillion years would I have eaten anything made by another Golden Bear, regardless of political affiliation, unless I had been in the kitchen the entire time.
Verily, .GOV should fund an annual project in which Kramerica drops a massive rubber ball filled with Purell on Sproul Plaza.
One can work for .GOV as a spy.
Anthropologists have been concerned with such activity since the Wilson administration. <<LINK (http://www.thenation.com/article/anthropologists-spies?page=full)>>, <<LINK2 (http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/CW-PUB.htm)>>, <<LINK3 (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/10/08/efforts_to_aid_us_roil_anthropology/)>>, <<LINK4 (http://blog.theasa.org/?p=48)>>.
Those were very interesting. The articles from '07, talking about being in Iraq and Afghan, sounded like a repeat of the first article, referencing 1919.
1stindoor
09-28-2011, 05:01
I find it funny that someone was protesting the exclusion of "queers" from the groups singled out in the bake sale.
They did the baking thilly-man.
I guess the notion of judge not the color of their skin but the content of their character thing is out of favor...except in some instances...
'Racist' bake sale at UC draws angry protest
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle September 27, 2011 06:09 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/27/BABR1L9PQL.DTL#ixzz1ZFYNERU3
BERKELEY -- A face-off on the UC Berkeley campus Tuesday pitted Democrats versus Republicans, pro-affirmative-action students versus those favoring race-blind policies and, ultimately, cupcakes versus brownies.
None other than former UC Regent and affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly showed up at Sproul Plaza to help campus Republicans sell frosted cupcakes priced according to the race of the buyer - a stunt intended to mock legislation before the governor that would allow universities to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.
"The point is, the people of California have said we don't want to see race and color in admissions," Connerly told angry students and faculty who crowded around the table.
"Go to hell!" yelled Ann Callegari, an African American student. "Are you the overseer?"
Connerly, a multiracial Republican who wrote Proposition 209, the state's voter-approved ban on race preferences in government programs, replied that he had plenty of experience with real racism growing up in Louisiana.
Many students denounced the group's bake sale as racist, and student government leaders unanimously approved a resolution condemning discrimination "in satire or seriousness" in response to the event.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and two vice chancellors sent out a campus-wide letter strongly supporting that position, while acknowledging that the administration "can urge, but not mandate, a person to behave with civility."
Protesting a pending law
Campus Republicans touted their bake sale as a protest against SB185, which Gov. Jerry Brown has until Oct. 9 to sign or veto. Under the bill, universities could not admit a student based on ethnicity but could consider it among several factors, such as extracurricular activities.
The Republican students said their idea to charge white students $2 for pastries and less money to students of other ethnicities illustrated the injustice of any division by race. And though their sign featured the race-based prices, they told the crowd surrounding their table to pay whatever they wanted.
Brad Bitler, a white rhetoric student, pushed through the crush and paid $5 for an M&M cookie and an oatmeal one. "Good luck on the fundraiser," he said.
"I'm Hispanic, so I'll pay a dollar," said Chris Maldonado, a chemical engineering student who took a green-frosted cupcake.
He explained his support for the bake sale, saying, "I'm the son of two poor immigrants from Guatemala. Yes, there exists a disadvantage, but if you put the emphasis on education, you will get an education. Me and my two brothers are proof of that."
A few feet away was the table that prompted the whole brouhaha. There, Berkeley's student government, the Associated Students of the University of California, were encouraging students to call Brown to express support for three bills on his desk, including SB185 by state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina (Los Angeles County).
Compared with the crowd around the Republicans' bake sale, which sold 30 cookies and 48 cupcakes in the first hour, the student government table looked a bit forlorn.
"It's actually upsetting that a controversial event is getting all the attention while our phone bank is approaching this issue in a constructive way," said Joey Freeman, a student leader at the table.
He and many other students in favor of SB185 say affirmative action is an essential tool in bringing equality to the university's selection process.
Calling the governor
Heidi Jimenez, an industrial engineering student, approached the call-in table holding a frosted pink "conscious cupcake" she got at one of the other tables offering opposition pastries. She studied the pro-SB185 script she was expected to read to the governor, then tapped Brown's number into her phone.
"OK, I'm on hold," she said.
"Good!" said Devonte Jackson, a student helping to lead the effort. "That means the lines are busy."
At midday, hundreds of students dressed in black lay down in Sproul Plaza, silently demonstrating support for SB185.
Since 1996, Prop. 209 has constitutionally prevented California's public universities from using race, ethnicity or gender in enrollment decisions. If SB185 becomes law, universities would still be prevented from admitting students based on those factors alone, "but as (part) of a number of different criteria," said Tim Valderrama, an aide to Hernandez.
The bill's author has said he wants more students of diverse backgrounds to have a chance to attend a university and help their communities as he does. In addition to his Senate job, Hernandez is a practicing optometrist in La Puente, the tiny Los Angeles-area town he grew up in.
At UC Berkeley, underrepresented minorities - Latino, black and Native American students - represent 16 percent of students, down from 20 percent in 1995 before Prop. 209 became law. The percent of white students has held steady at 30 percent at Berkeley, while Chinese American students have grown slightly from 19 to 20 percent of enrollment.
On Tuesday, Connerly predicted that Brown would veto the bill: "I don't think this is the time California can afford to be embroiled in a lawsuit."
Meanwhile, a new campus group calling itself the Affirmation - the same students who lay down in Sproul Plaza - announced that its protest was not just in response to the bake sale, "but to larger, systemic problems in the UC system," student Reuben Canedo said during a news conference.
He and another student representative, Naomi Wilson, then read off a long list of demands, including that Brown immediately sign SB185. But they refused to take questions and did not share the list.
E-mail Nanette Asimov at nasimov@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Foggy Bottom
09-28-2011, 07:51
None other than former UC Regent and affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly showed up at Sproul Plaza to help campus Republicans sell frosted cupcakes priced according to the race of the buyer - a stunt intended to mock legislation before the governor that would allow universities to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.
"The point is, the people of California have said we don't want to see race and color in admissions," Connerly told angry students and faculty who crowded around the table.
"Go to hell!" yelled Ann Callegari, an African American student. "Are you the overseer?"
Connerly, a multiracial Republican who wrote Proposition 209, the state's voter-approved ban on race preferences in government programs, replied that he had plenty of experience with real racism growing up in Louisiana.
I've met Ward Connerly. To call him "multiracial" might be technically accurate. It might also be technically accurate to say that more than 99% of the population in the United States is multiracial. I think anyone who meets him face-to-face would simply describe him as black.
I've met Ward Connerly. To call him "multiracial" might be technically accurate. It might also be technically accurate to say that more than 99% of the population in the United States is multiracial. I think anyone who meets him face-to-face would simply describe him as black.
http://www.acri.org/ward_bio.html
That is very strange that they would call the girl telling him to go to hell "African-American"; yet make a point of calling him "multi-racial" without mentioning "African-American" or black. I don't believe the MSM has called Obama "multi-racial". They try to make a point of him being black.
This kind of stuff is going to be very difficult to explain to my grand-daughter, who is " multi-racial", when she gets a little older. Especially since I don't understand it half the time.