At the University of Texas, a
conservative student group is holding a bake sale in an effort to highlight the unfairness of affirmative action. The group is selling baked goods at different prices depending upon the customer's race with white people paying the highest price. The group hopes to show how affirmative action is a form of reverse discrimination and that it is demeaning to minorities.
Once again, conservatives are trying to boil down a complex issue into a bite-sized talking point devoid of all the nutritious filler. Did they explain to customers how all of the ingredients first belonged to the Native Americans but that the ingredients were stripped from them? Did they talk about how African-Americans were forced to perform all of the labor in making the baked goods with no pay and under inhuman conditions? Did they explain how all of the ingredients were picked and processed by Latinos for petty wages?
There is a history being ignored where the minorities in this country have already paid into the system through one form of exploitation or another. Affirmative action is just one of the mechanisms used to try to rebalance the scales. And while there is a valid discussion to be had about affirmative action, reducing the issue to this kind of drivel just shows how starved their minds are for real knowledge.