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SMU shuts down cookie sale that offended some

Associated Press

DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University officials have shut down a bake sale in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the race and gender of the buyer.

The sale Tuesday was organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas, who said it was intended as a protest of affirmative action.

A sign said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie. The price was 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.

Members of the conservative group said they meant no offense and were only trying to exercise their freedom of speech to protest the use of race or gender as a factor in college admissions.

A black student filed a complaint, saying the sale was offensive. SMU officials said they halted the event after 45 minutes because it created a potentially unsafe situation for students.

The sale drew a crowd of students outside the student center and several engaged in a shouting match, a university spokesman said.

David C. Rushing, a law student and chairman of SMU's Young Conservatives of Texas, said the event didn't get out of hand. At most, a dozen students gathered around the table of cookies, he said.

"We copied what's been done at multiple campuses around the country to illustrate our opinion of affirmative action and how we think it's unfair," he said.

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Man, if I was black I'd have bought all the cookies at 25c and sold them to all the white guys.

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hahahahaha

Exactly! The best response would've been to take the deal and profit from it.

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Fags.

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Man, if I was black I'd have bought all the cookies at 25c and sold them to all the white guys.

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I would have just stolen all of their fucking cookies, paying is for suckers.

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Suckers and people who don't like being incarcerated.

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i would love to give you some humour points right now, smug.

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If I was a black man I'd take the 25 cent loss of earnings and hit the white women.

Guess the "fags" comment flew over a few heads.

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"My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization."

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They ARE basing it on race. I bet if you asked that kid, he'd tell you black folk cannot be racist. Probably also believes Moses was black.

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Or ethnicity. You can have blue eyes and blond hair, but get a scholarship based on the surname Rodriguez.

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Or ethnicity. You can have blue eyes and blond hair, but get a scholarship based on the surname Rodriguez.

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I may try that.

However, it works in just the opposite way with members of the law enforcement community, though they DO still give you preferential treatment of a sort.

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However, it works in just the opposite way with members of the law enforcement community, though they DO still give you preferential treatment of a sort.

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Haha

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