Posted on 06/22/2021 3:04:02 PM PDT by DFG
IKEA in Atlanta is under fire after its management team devised a 'racially insensitive' menu for Juneteenth which featured fried chicken and watermelon.
Bosses purportedly sent out the menu to employees in an email last Friday, saying they wanted to serve the foods to customers as a way to 'honor' the federal holiday.
However, the management team - which allegedly featured no black employees - failed to realize that many of the food items have been derogatorily associated with black Americans for more than a century.
According to NPR, both fried chicken and watermelon were common foods fed to slaves in the South, and have been 'a mainstay in racist depictions of black Americans' ever since they featured in the 1915 film Birth of A Nation.
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I can’t say for sure but this had to be an ill-fated attempt at humor. Nobody in Atlanta does not know watermelon and fried chicken (and collard greens btw) are stereotyped Black foods. Anyone for Popeyes?
Grin. Don’t know much about Miss Eilish, except I am pretty sure she could say (in Lethal Weapon - South African tone) Not “diplomatic” but rather.... ‘Young, very progressive and very popular - immunity’
Yes, I would be all over that, thank you. Hold the potato salad.
Strawberry Nehi to drink and Blackberry pie for dessert.
That’s actually a very enjoyable meal, but stupid of someone to offer it in such a stereotypical way.
Collard greens but no chit’lins? C’mon man!
White people in Atlanta eat all those foods all the time. Whatever the stereotype was, it is long gone.
The other post. Not this one. 😂🙌
Sounds like pretty standard picnic fare.
Dixie Boy. Good fireCRACKER!
I saw a video a while ago, where someone from Russia just didn't get the stereotype either -- he didn't even know it existed. He said watermelon is eaten in Russia all the time.
Heck there is this Russian painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting watermelon being served. You know it's Russia by the type of buildings you see in the background -- it isn't the Carolinas or Alabama.
Is mac & cheese racist now, too?
Sounds pretty good to me.
Hmmm Fried Chicken, watermelon, Mac & Cheese, potato salad and candied yams are enjoyed by this White American....
Bork! Bork! Bork!
Mis-spelled “potato” a la Dan Quale
How much for the lee-tle gir-el?
Your women, I want to buy your women. I know just about every line from that crazy movie😆😆😆
I grew up in Southern VA. This was a normal menu for us.
Don’t forget that carton of Newport
More propaganda to incite blacks. If common foods offend you, you have a mental problem, not a racist problem.
This is a yummy menu. Would they have preferred kale, Brussel sprouts, asparagus & fried bugs?
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