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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“Fried chicken was NEVER a popular slave food”
Yep, chickens were expensive back then. All the old old movies always show blacks stealing chickens is how the conotation was arrived.
Forgot strawberry soda.
And Purple Drank.
Damn Swedes! Don’t the know nothing? Should have offered chitlins and black eye peas!
Just wait, the liberals will blame the Babylon Bee....
I like fried chicken and watermelon, but I’m Black Irish.
I don’t see fresh caught catfish on the menu.
It has to be a joke. I mean, who doesn’t like Fried Chicken for Christ’s sake.
I still don’t get why fried chicken and watermelon are a negative stereotype for the black community. I’m sure there is some reason going back 100 years, but I don’t understand it. I am white and I grew up eating both foods. Chilled watermelon especially is a great food to eat in the summer in the hot and humid South. Very refreshing and cooling.
Would everyone have preferred the horsemeat Swedish meatballs?
https://www.foxnews.com/health/horse-meat-found-in-ikeas-swedish-meatballs
LOL!
Back in the day when the only thing libs could do was attack grammar because Americans were smarter.
Now we’re insane so we believe it all.
Go to any ANY gathering in the greater south and yes you will find fried chicken and watermelon.
Fixed it for you.
We’re putting the band back together 🙂🙂🙂
Does that make me:
More of a racist?
Less of a racist?
No change - (and its racist to ask the question.)
I mean how stupid can you possibly be?
-——Stupid enough not to be able to spell POTATO.
And don’t forget the dry, white toast.
“...failed to realize that many of the food items have been derogatorily associated with black Americans for more than a century...”
Okay then, no more fried chicken and watermelons for blacks.
Yup
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