A Republican student organization at the University of California, Berkeley has stirred up controversy over baked goods. Or rather, their prices. 

The baked goods were listed at $2 for whites, $1.50 for Asians, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans, and 25 cents for Native Americans. A further discount of 25 cents was offered to all women.

 The Berkeley College Republicans held their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” on Tuesday, Sept. 27, with the intent to protest a Senate bill allowing race, ethnicity and gender to be considered as factors for admission to public California universities. The state passed an initiative, Proposition 209, preventing affirmative action in 1996.

 In an interview with NPR, Shawn Lewis, President of the Berkeley College Republicans, explained the reasoning behind the bake sale.

 “This pricing structure specifically got a lot of the outrage and that was the main point of our message, was that treating people differently or discriminatorily, based on race or color of their skin, is inherently wrong,” Lewis said.

 Despite the outrage, Lewis told NPR the bake sale raised over $800.

 Let us know what you think about the bake sale.