Ward Connerly, former UC Regent and the driving force behind Proposition 209, has come to Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley to help the Berkeley College Republicans sell cupcakes at their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale.”
Proposition 209, approved by California voters in 1996, effectively eliminated affirmative action. The proposition banned the state’s public institutions from considering race, ethnicity or sex.
“This bake sale is racist,” he said. “It’s the only way to call attention to the problem of (considering race in admissions).”
Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the university news editor.
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Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) of University of California Berkeley displaces qualified
for public university education at Cal. Californians for $50,600 payment by FOREIGN students.
The University
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ranked # 70 Forbes, is not increasing enrollment. $50,600 tuition FOREIGN students are accepted
by Birgeneau at the expense of qualified instate students.
UC Regent Chairwoman Lansing and President Yudof agree discriminating
against instate Californians for admission to UC Berkeley. Birgeneau, Yudof, Lansing need to answer to
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Thanks, Ward, for having the courage to take a stand on this issue. Been trying to say for years that segregating races out by giving privileges based on race is racial profiling even if its in reverse. No one in their right mind thinks that any race should be singled out and ridiculed but privilege based on race is not the way to redemption.
TNfan, how do you propose to eliminate the deep segregation and discrimination against minorities in low income communities. If not with affirmative action, which you and others here consider racist, by what other means and policies can we reverse the clear delineation that exists among whites and minorities. Discrimination continues to be reinforced through discrepancies in income and access to public education. If a better policy exists, which it doesn’t, then support that, but until now affirmative action is needed to eliminate the gap! I am a minority and a berkeley student and I am strongly apposed to the blatant racism of the Berkeley College Republicans and their complete insensitivity.
I have a proposal to eliminate the gap: Minorities should get themselves qualified to go to school. You ask for a better policy – there you have it!
exactly, how can we ever expect a black man to become, oh say, president?
oh wait…
Way to go Ward! Yes the bake sale is racist, and so is SB 185, but Ward’s presence proves that the Berkeley College Republicans are not racist.
no, it proves he doesn’t know that he’s black.
The idea that how you think is dependent on skin color is racist in itself, you miserable child…
Ward is aware of his own race and he is aware that racial preference is racism.
Yes clearly, the presence of a man who is quoted as saying “Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races” and “I don’t care if they are segregated or not” (regarding California schools) proves that BCR are not racist.
Google “Ward Connerly segregation” and educate yourself.
*is not racist