Thom Hartmann: A ''Race Based'' Bake Sale?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 07:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIhsiyLOgeU   Posted on YouTube: September 27, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 115   Posted on DU: September 27, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 660

 
There's a specific "race" privilege in America that most white people are
oblivious to...I'll break it down in tonight's Daily Take.

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[GreenTea]

1. This from the SF Chronicle (SFGate) far, far, far from being a progressive newspaper by any stretch!

A bake sale flyer posted on Facebook last week linked the price of pastries to the race, ethnicity or gender of the buyer so that "White/Caucasians" are charged $2, "Asian/Asian-Americans," $1.50; "Latino/Hispanic" $1; "Black/African Americans," 75 cents; Native Americans 25 cents and a 25 cent discount to all women.

The bake sale creators have no understanding of how race works in America.

In a country whose earliest beginnings relied on an economic system that placed a price tag on the value of a black man, and carried out genocide against its native inhabitants, you would have to be tone-deaf to promote such an idea. Unless of course, all you really wanted was some attention focused on your cause.

Student organizers said the point of the bake sale was to mock a bill now on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk that would allow university officials to consider race, ethnicity and gender as factors in its student admission decisions. Prop 209 prohibits public universities from considering an applicant's race, gender and ethnicity.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/27/BAQA1L9OHM.DTL&tsp=1

[spirald]

2. Since a Native American Female pays nothing...

...everyone should pool together, use her as a "buyer", and relieve these idiots of all their inventory before their "event" even gets started.