Posted on 02/24/2018 5:13:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
Two people who work to prepare food for students at New York University have lost their jobs for serving a meal featuring food and beverages believed to be stereotypically associated with black cuisine. The New York Times reports:
On Tuesday, a dining hall at New York University advertised a special meal in honor of Black History Month. On the menu? Barbecue ribs, corn bread, collard greens, and two beverages with racist connotations: Kool-Aid and watermelon-flavored water.
Nia Harris, a sophomore in N.Y.U.'s College of Arts & Science, sought an explanation from Weinstein Passport Dining Hall's head cook. The cook dismissed her objections, Ms. Harris said in an email to university officials, telling her that the Kool-Aid was actually fruit punch (it was not, she said) and that the dining hall served fruit-flavored water "all the time" (it does, she said, but not watermelon).
The head cook also told Ms. Harris that the employees who planned the menu were black.
Ms. Harris, 19, posted a screen shot of her email on Facebook, along with a post that began, "This is what it's like to be a black student at New York University." It spread quickly.
So, thanks to the exquisite sensitivity of Ms. Harris, two people who probably earn less than her yearly tuition are without jobs in an expensive city. Nice work!
I recall drinking a lot of it at summer camp, too. And the only time I get to drink watermelon juice is at my favorite Mexican restaurant, which serves it. I was not aware of the "racist connotations" Ms. Harris objects to. Now, maybe I am clueless, but it is also clear that lots and lots of people who are not black see nothing particularly black or racist about either of them
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Colt 45 was unicultural in the 60’s.
I love black eyed peas. Made a can for dinner the other night. I add onions and real bacon bits and cook them awhile. Yum.
And they don't come any whiter than me.
I haven't read the article closely but I wonder if either of the people fired were black...or if any black person in a position of authority might have signed off on these menu choices.
I wonder how many Blacks or Whites are going to stop eating ribs./s
None.
That menu sounds tasty. Some people will find a way to be offended no matter what, so it’s time to stop trying. Treat them exactly the same as everyone else. No variation, no matter how slight. Force them to see what true equality is and tell them that zero effort will be made to try to make them feel special or different.
It makes you sound as bad a Ms Harass. I mean Harris.
And it’s not “soul food”, it’s plain old fashioned southern cooking!!!!! I think as a southern white honky I’m offended by this whole story.....LOL
These nice ladies can find work in the South. No such thing as too many cooks cooking ribs. You cook ‘em we’ll eat ‘em.
The two who were fired were black. That actually angers me: innocent working-class black people being canned to satisfy the vanity of this college cretin.
The cowardice of many businesses, and especially colleges, is really annoying. Forget micro-agression. Getting someone fired because they take offense at the menu choices is a full on macro-agression.
Trump should hire the two fired workers for the White House kitchen and have collard greens, corn bread and watermelon juice at least once a week.
Those pants remind me of the “Woke jeans” that SNL recently created an ad for. youtube it, it’s kinda funny.
Also, my apologies because it seems I’m just following you around FR tonight replying to everything you post. FreeStalking ?
My own preference would be heaping, steaming bowls of gruel. Dessert will be lifesavers. Yum. Every day, every meal.
In America unless you’re eating berries, maze, squash, beans and wild fish and game you’re culturally appropriating someone else’s cuisine.
Or at least offer them a better paying job at theTower.
The greatest video ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bxz2RSkrI
Black jobs like black lives do not matter when taken by other blacks.
Who gives a flying fuch anymore about race.
I am so sick of it.
Whaaa ??? No Mac n’ Cheese ???
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