Posted on 02/04/2010 3:00:03 PM PST by Justaham
NBC -- in its News Division, at least -- has been very sensitive to racial matters since Don Imus was dismissed by MSNBC for jokingly using the phrase "nappy-headed hoes" to describe the Rutgers women's basketball team. Apparently, political sensitivity has not extended to the whole network.
Steve Krakauer at Mediaite reports that Questlove, the leader of the band for the late-night Jimmy Fallon show, complained to his more than 1 million followers on Twitter that NBC's cafeteria at 30 Rock in New York offered fried chicken "in honor of Black History Month."
NBC Universal replied on Twitter: "The sign in the NBCU cafeteria has been removed. We apologize for anyone who was offended by it." There's no word on whether the chicken special was removed along with the sign.
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At a former employer’s cafeteria, in liberal San Francisco, the special to honor Black History Month was ( I swear to God):
“Poke Chops, Greens and Watermelon.”
It didn’t go over well.
ask Fuzzy Zoeller about that.........
RE: “Is anyone else getting as tired of this PC crap as I am? “
No kidding. It’s just retarded.
Oops.
And just to keep it real here for the challenged I was being facetious about the insult thing.
Yes, it is funny. Yankee city people, thinking country cooking is “black,” like they’ve never met country white people or country Mexican people or country Vietnamese people. (Well, Vietnamese cooking can get a little strange ...)
Fried chicken, greens, cornbread, and melon is what we ate when I was a girl in Missouri.
I guess they are so used to getting the Gubmit hand out of cash, they are just too good for Fried Chicken and Watermalon.
Turned uppity...............
This not an issue that common folks gripe about. Now race baiters are jumping with glee......
i know. it’s really southern, as i can attest to many summers in alabama at my relatives. although black cuisine has heavily influenced southern cusine, fried chicken is not exclusively black for sure.
I’ve never known any white liberals that lived in predominately black communities. In fact, most of them lived in very affluent areas.
That's the truth. Food's food, if you're hungry.
When my kids say, "What's for dinner?" I always answer, "Food." "What kind of food?" "The kind of food you'll eat or do without!" Turns out that's just the kind of food they wanted ;-).
Imus is gonna eat this up!
In our family we didn't call it white or black food, but Sunday after church lunch.
listen stooopid... shut up and eat, cause all the ones that DO WANT IT won't get it now cause of YOU!!! what a way to win friends and influence people...
Everyone makes fried chicken, practically, and fried fish, and cornbread. Greens are mostly a Southern thing, but not exclusively. My old relatives in Missouri - the pre-World War 2 generation - could be pretty racist, but they had a Southern-influenced country diet, just as rural black people did.
As I said above, only city people would think that menu was distinctively black.
Whatever the menu, mayonaise would be involved.
I don’t see what the big deal is. Fried chicken is Southern food, most Blacks are also Southern....or at least only a generation or two removed from it.
Hell, pass it to me if you don’t want it.
The menu is deliciously stereotypical...and very typical of the hypocritical MSM...
Oh yeah! Mayo!!! Dripping ....
They apologized “for anyone that was offended by” the sign. Shouldn’t they be apologizing TO anyone?
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