Zumba, a multiracial transexual, caused a stir at the Berkeley Bake Sale when organizers couldn't agree on how much she would be charged for a cupcake.  In the end, however, she was given the cupcake for free as Native Americans were to be charged a quarter but women were to receive a twenty-five cent discount regardless of race.

"We are not trying to put people at an economic disadvantage," said one the organizer, "only to bring attention to the disparities in the way people are charged for an education here in the state of California."

Some students disagreed, however.  One woman of color claimed to be "appalled" by the "trivialization" of "the struggles that people have been through and their histories [sic]."

I made up the first part.  Sort of.  I'm taking this next part directly from CNN:

"Loomba, Berkeley's student government president, said she is concerned about students potentially feeling ostracized due to the bake sale.


"Berkeley's student government held an emergency senate meeting Sunday to discuss the issue and passed a resolution that, in part, "condemns the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group."

This shit is serious, (insert "Jackson" or "Honky" or "Homey" or whatever soft epithet you prefer).  The student government is considering a ban on both John Stewart and Stephen Colbert's television shows.  Under consideration are the works of Dryden, Pope, and Swift.  And none too soon.  That is some awful stuff.

I love students to death, and I can't wait to see how this is resolved so I will know on which side of this issue to fall.  William F. Buckley once pointed out when speaking at Harvard that a straw poll showed over ninety percent of the students had voted for McGovern against Nixon.  "Clearly," he said, "McGovern was the choice of the partially educated."

I have marched at Berkeley, by the way, and was treated as roughly by shithead cops as the protesters in New York's Financial District.  Eat the Rich.  Ban the Greedheads.

Oh.  And the Iranian government is making an ideological point, too, in sending a naval fleet to patrol off the east coast of the U.S.  I can't wait to hear from Zumba on this one.