In early February, Bruin Republicans organized a campus cookie sale – but not your ordinary cookie sale. They offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer’s race and sex. Black, Latino and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for a cookie, while their male counterparts were charged 50 cents. White females were charged a dollar. White males were charged two dollars. Asian males and females also were charged two dollars a cookie.

Some might ask: “Why are Asians charged two dollars? They’re a minority.” You’d be right. According to the 2000 Census, residents who reported as Asian, or in combination with one or more other races, totaled 11.9 million – or 4 percent – of our population. In my book, that makes Asians a minority and eligible for the cookie affirmative-action discount. Instead of being charged two dollars for a cookie, Asian females and Asian males are rightful claimants to the racially discounted price of 25 cents and 50 cents, respectively.

If you see things that way, and think Asian-Americans are eligible for preferential treatment, it simply means that you haven’t kept abreast with modern racial enlightenment. A minority group is not a minority if, as a group, it is successful. Asian median family is $55,525, the highest of any other racial group in America. More than 44 percent of Asians age 25 and over have bachelor degrees; the rate for all other Americans was 26 percent. Other indicators of group success would include low crime rate and high family stability. Case closed – Asians are not a minority.