Outrage over College Bake Sale Where Prices Depend on Race (VIDEO)

Republicans at the University of California Berkeley now find themselves wrapped up in a firestorm of controversy with their plans for a campus bake sale.

It seems they’ve come up with sliding price structure that depends on your gender and race.

During the sale, which is currently scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2.00, Asian men for $1.50, Latino men for $1.00, black men for $0.75, and Native American men for $0.25. All women will get $0.25 off too.

“The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset,” says Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis. “But it’s really there to cause people to think more critically about what this kind of policy would do in university admissions.”

Lewis says they’re trying to make a statement regarding pending legislation that would allow California universities to weight race and/or national origin during the admission process.

The plan may have backfired, though, as the young Republicans have been on the receiving end of some pretty intense backlash. Reaction has been so negative, in fact, they’ve had to cancel their usual lunchtime tabling duties.

Lewis says they anticipated a certain amount of criticism but not the level of outrage they’re experiencing so far.

“We didn’t expect the volume, the amount of response that we got,” Lewis said. “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. They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organizers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats.”

More in the video below.