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 mean how stupid can you possibly be?
LOL.....That is some funny stuff right there.
NOT the Bee? LOL! The tone deafness is mind boggling.
Well, they are Swedes but I bet this is a hoax
The white liberals are upset they didn’t serve quiche and champagne.
the sweet potatoes shouldn’t necessarily be candied.
and they should include pinto beans.
otherwise, that menu is excellent.
Fried chicken and watermelon on a summer afternoon is a gift from God!
And all the neighborhood black people showed up for the fried chicken.
What’s wrong wih fried chicken and watermelon? Both are on my top 10 alll-time favorite foods. And I’m nearly 100% WOP.
Is that a trick question?
IKEA destroying the worlds forest, one tree at a time, so you can have a dish rack.
Hope the natives in Atlanta burn it down. It’ll go up, literally, like a book of matches.
They forgot the corn bread.
Not sure how one could be that foolish in this day and age. Twitter is canceling people for less due to dumb things they said at 13 years old.
No - this HAS to be the Bee right?!
Right here people - this is a prime example of the leftist education system at work!
Derogatorily associated with black Americans.
So are they saying blacks don’t eat like normal people no limit of goofy whiners.
I bought some watermelon last time I went grocery shopping. It goes down great after mowing the grass in the heat.
Oh! Oh! PotatoE?????
I’m not surprised at the reaction but what would surprise me is if THEY (the always offended) objected mightily to US eating fried chicken and watermelon. It BELONGS to them!
I’m part black and I love fried chicken and watermelon? What’s the big deal?
I don’t know who these Atlanta IKEA managers are, but one of them appears to be Dan Quayle...
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