Washington, Sept 26 (ANI): A group of University of California students have sparked off a racism and sexism row over a controversial bake at the campus where people are charged according to their ethnic background and gender.
The Facebook page of the sale organized by Republican students at the University of California, Berkeley, lists of baked goods according to race: two dollars for whites, 1.50 dollars for Asians, one dollar Hispanics, 0.75 dollars for blacks and 0.25 dollras for Native Americans.
Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis said the idea of the "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" was to highlight a legislative bill to let California public universities consider race and gender in their admissions process, the Telegraph reports.
He further said they would to go ahead with the sale despite protests and threats.
"In the first few hours, hundreds of posts on our Facebook page. And the tone of some of the responses, we expected people to be upset. We didn't expect personal threats to be made," Lewis said.
"They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organisers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats," he added.
College's student Democrats president Anais LaVoie, has, however, asked for an apology.
"The way they made the statement, the words that they used, the fact that they humorized and mocked the struggles of people of colour on this campus is very disgusting to me," he added. (ANI)
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