Useful Fools

As widely reported, The Young Conservatives of Texas had a bake sale at SMU in which the cookies were offered at different prices, depending on the race and gender of the buyer.

The sale, a guerilla theater protest of affirmative action, was shut down by university officials, who apparently allow only the left, racial preference groups, and admission policies to offend people.

“We thought it would be a good idea just because we were trying to raise awareness of affirmative action,” said David Rushing, chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas on ABCNEWS’ Good Morning America

“It’s no more hurtful than college administrators’ affirmative action admissions programs,” Rushing said.

The price was $1 for white males, $.75 for white women, $.50 for Hispanics and $.25 for blacks.

It had been reported that only three cookies were sold, raising $1.50. Simple mathematics shows that at least one member of a favored group must have bought a cookie, leading to the obvious question: how many cookies were sold to members of the “offended” favored groups?. Naturally, the professional media failed to ask this potentially embarrassing question, so we did.

In an email response to Useful Fools, David Rushing, chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas, wrote:

We sold one cookie to a white student, and 2 cookies to black students. To my knowledge, no cookies were stolen.

Hmmm…