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'Black Food Week' celebrates Austin area's black-owned restaurants
kvue ^ | July 21, 2019 | Drew Knight

Posted on 07/22/2019 3:15:18 PM PDT by bgill

Austin's "Black Food Week" is back again, giving black-owned restaurants across the Austin area a chance to shine as the spotlight is turned to them.

Sponsored by the Austin Justice Coalition, Black Food Week aims to give the Austin community information about Austin's new and longstanding black-owned restaurants that have become pillars in the Austin community.

This year, the event actually runs for two whole weeks, beginning on July 22 and lasting through Aug. 3.

"We hope that the community not only finds these restaurants as enjoyable dining experiences but also an educational tool that prompts supporting locally owned minority businesses,"

(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...


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Excuse me?!? Isn't that racist? When is white food week?

It is an educational tool, huh. Then someone needs to learn that 13 days is nearly 2 weeks.

1 posted on 07/22/2019 3:15:18 PM PDT by bgill
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Are whites allowed to eat it?


2 posted on 07/22/2019 3:18:01 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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No whites aren’t allowed because that would be cultural appropriation.

And so it goes. Only people of Chinese ethnicity are allowed to eat Chinese food, Mexican eat Mexican food, etc.


3 posted on 07/22/2019 3:22:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: bgill

When I was in the USAF the black airmen complained that there wasn’t enough “soul food” stocked in the commissary and after a multitude of complaints the commissary complied and stocked an entire line with black eyed peas, ham hocks, chitterlings, and other items that rural blacks were supposed to eat. I had to inspect the dates and wholesomeness of the commissary stocked foods and observed that the only ones that ate the “soul food” were we rednecks like us that ate country. The blacks didn’t buy a tenth of the “soul food” stock. After about six months the commissary removed the display as it was not a big seller to the blacks.


4 posted on 07/22/2019 3:23:37 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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I may be criticized for asking, but, are some of these places in bad neighborhoods? And if so, how many will travel into such areas to sample the soul food??


5 posted on 07/22/2019 3:24:26 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: bgill

It’s a guilty white Leftist thing I’m sure.


6 posted on 07/22/2019 3:26:40 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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Well, POTUS Trump does like his Ribeye Well Done.

Is it Racist when I ask for Blackened Chicken in my Fettuccine?

7 posted on 07/22/2019 3:27:51 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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“Excuse me?!? Isn’t that racist? When is white food week?”

Or Chinese? Or Mexican?

I wonder why those other “colored” people don’t need to be helped out with discriminatory, pandering promotions.


8 posted on 07/22/2019 3:29:04 PM PDT by aquila48
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I think the same thing has happened in SJW food services at colleges.
Don’t serve it, they demand it.
Serve it, it’s pandering.


9 posted on 07/22/2019 3:34:12 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: bgill

I thought the whole idea of “black food” was racist.


10 posted on 07/22/2019 3:34:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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To: bgill

I burned lunch earlier today, does that count or is that cultural appropriation?


11 posted on 07/22/2019 3:35:06 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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I would attend if only to get me some frad chicken and some watermelon :)


12 posted on 07/22/2019 3:38:14 PM PDT by Migraine
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You mean they don’t have fried chicken and watermelon?

“Just plant a little watermelon on my grave,
and let the juice (slurp sound) trickle through,
Just plant a little watermelon on my grave,
That’s all I ask of you.

Now fried chicken is mighty mighty fine,
but there’s nothing quite as fine as a watermelone vine,
so plant a little watermelon on my grave,
and let the juice (slurp sound) trickle through.”


13 posted on 07/22/2019 3:40:35 PM PDT by IgnaciKat (RIME)
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Raciss or not...that’s some fine eatin’.

As long as there’s plenty of cornbread...


14 posted on 07/22/2019 3:41:11 PM PDT by moovova
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Gee, Wally, what kind of food do you s’pose black food is?


15 posted on 07/22/2019 3:43:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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After it became ‘commercialized”, it was touted as “soul food”.
In the 1800s, it was “slave food”.


16 posted on 07/22/2019 3:44:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bgill

July is national white history month.

George Washington was the first white president of the United States.

And now you know.


17 posted on 07/22/2019 3:47:29 PM PDT by Skywise
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ooooohhh.... I thought they meant food that was black. You know:

Black beans
black-eye peas
Black Forest cake
black & white cookies
black coffee
black raspberries
black Angus steaks
black olives

... well you get the picture...


18 posted on 07/22/2019 3:48:17 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: bgill

The other 50 weeks if you don’t count turkey week


19 posted on 07/22/2019 3:51:04 PM PDT by deport
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One would guess they’re mostly on the east side of I-35. Of course, the likes of Spike Lee, complain that young whites are moving in to the cheap run down houses and gentrifying da hood.


20 posted on 07/22/2019 3:56:55 PM PDT by bgill
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