A couple of years ago the conservative club at Bucknell held an Affirmative Action bake sale, using race-based pricing that allowed Latino and Black students to pay considerably less than Caucasian and Asian students for cookies and brownies. The reactions of the students buying the goodies varied from disbelief to embarrassment, making the intended point that most people just want equal opportunity and aren't comfortable reaching their goals by slipping in under the fence.
John Stossel, the libertarian journalist who recently moved from ABC News to the Fox Business channel, held his own bake sale last week with similar results. He discusses the issue of Affirmative Action with Bill O'Reilly:
The Wesleyan University admissions office reacted in a similar way after a conservative student group on campus held yet another Affirmative Active bake sale ~ denying that Wesleyan follows an affirmative action policy when deciding which prospective students should be invited to attend the school. I find it interesting that this very elite, by any definition of the word, university felt the need to disavow any proclivity to follow affirmative action, dare I say, standards. The Wesleyan faculty, on the other hand, felt no need to distance the school from affirmative action.
Wesleyan Faculty Endorse Affirmative Action - By Mytheos Holt - Phi Beta Cons - National Review Online
If only the proponents of affirmative action would get serious (and honest) about solving the real civil rights issue of our time ~ the failure of our public school system ~ affirmative action would be beside the point.
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