The Perfect Bake Sale

I think you may have missed the point they were trying to make-that the college admissions process here in the US is singularly biased and unfair. The issue is that they give preference to people who don’t necessarily have academic records better than people not getting accepted. Ideally, I’d propose leaving race and sex off of any admissions applications altogether, so that applicants get selected purely on merit alone. The students, and myself, weren’t poking fun at the affirmative action movement or the situation of minorities in the US, they were merely expressing displeasure with the admissions process, and in a rather creative way, I might add. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression!

Sean- If someone sold cookies and excluded irish people (like yourself Im assuming) or excluded women or anyother european group in the US, there would be angry sign carrying, stone throwing protesters who would squash that within hours. But for some reason when Black people try to assert their rights for equal hiring rights, its something to be laughed at. The only reason their are Blacks working in white collar jobs is because of affirmative action. I dont know why but by around 1980 the affirmative action movement lost steam which is why Blacks have contiued to occupy poverty level. The reason affirmative action slowed to a stop is up to debate, my feeling is that to many Blacks were comfortable with the welfare system, but thats neither here nor there now. Try going to South Africa and sell dicount cookies to Blacks their to make fun of their Black empowerment movement thats going on now to put Blacks in high job positions, and then see what happens.