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"Drunken Negro Face" Cookie Baker Visited By Secret Service, Black Panthers
Gothamist ^ | 26 Feb 09 | John Del Signore

Posted on 03/01/2009 7:59:42 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out

It's been over a month since Greenwich Village baker Ted Kefalinos sparked outrage over his so-called "Drunken Negro Face" cookies, and the controversy will still not go away, despite his fumbling attempts to apologize. The New Black Panthers have been protesting on Saturdays outside his bakery, and the Secret Service paid him a visit because of his alleged remarks that "Obama will get he deserves, just like Lincoln." In a Villager article that can only be described as pure gold, Kefalinos says, "I get both sides. I get people who praise me and call me genius. I even got one guy who wanted to send 100 drunk Negroes to beat me into submission — and he was going to video it...There’s one guy who calls himself Denzel Washington. He wanted me to personally apologize for the cookie. I hung up on him. "

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posted a long apology on the bakery window, which reads, in part, "To the people who perceived our product was offensive... I apologize for the error in judgment... What I saw as a flower, you saw as a thorn, based on cross cultural differences."

That's not going to cut it with New Black Panther leader Shaka Shakur, who tells the Villager, "We want to get this pushed all the way to being a hate crime." During a recent protest, Shakur noticed an Asian sushi chef outside Funayama restaurant next door, and warned, "He made a cookie about me — he’ll make one about you." Shakur says he'll call off the protest if Kefalinos makes a donation to the Harlem school he founded, Gyenyama University. When a reporter explained the proposal to Kefalinos, he replied, "Pay him off?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; cookies; grievancetheatre; kefalinos; obamanation
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always nice to have a bit of followup.
1 posted on 03/01/2009 7:59:42 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
To the people who perceived our product was offensive... I apologize for the error in judgment... What I saw as a flower, you saw as a thorn, based on cross cultural differences."

Classic! I love it! LOL!

2 posted on 03/01/2009 8:02:14 AM PST by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

OK, now we got unlawful cookies (hate crime).


3 posted on 03/01/2009 8:03:38 AM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Shakur says he'll call off the protest if Kefalinos makes a donation to the Harlem school he founded, Gyenyama University. When a reporter explained the proposal to Kefalinos, he replied, "Pay him off?

The money quote...

4 posted on 03/01/2009 8:05:04 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: blu

“New Black Panther leader Shaka Shakur”

New Black Panther leader Boomshakalakalaka Shakur. (Fixed it!)


5 posted on 03/01/2009 8:05:17 AM PST by Batman11 ("Big ears isn't my President!")
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Shaka Shakur, who tells the Villager, "We want to get this pushed all the way to being a hate crime."

You and your hate crimes. Baking a cookie is a crime now, just because it hurts somebody's feeeeeeeelings? Gimme a freakin' break.

6 posted on 03/01/2009 8:05:21 AM PST by library user (Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Now that we have the Kenyan president racial tensions will go up (mostly black instigated) instead of down


7 posted on 03/01/2009 8:08:32 AM PST by dennisw (Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Witness the rise of thought police.....


8 posted on 03/01/2009 8:09:48 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
"Drunken Negro Face"
9 posted on 03/01/2009 8:11:12 AM PST by J40000
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
"Drunken Negro Face"
10 posted on 03/01/2009 8:11:39 AM PST by J40000
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To: dennisw

11 posted on 03/01/2009 8:12:22 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
"We want to get this pushed all the way to being a hate crime."

I was leaning sympathetic until I got to this. Black Panther "leader"? Sounds more like a whiney kitten.

12 posted on 03/01/2009 8:13:50 AM PST by LiberConservative
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

If he made a dead wolf cookie slamming Sarah Palin, he’d be seen as a genius, and Ashley Judd herself would be shaking this guy’s hand.


13 posted on 03/01/2009 8:14:23 AM PST by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

A cookie as a hate crime. That’s crummy.


14 posted on 03/01/2009 8:14:29 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
During a recent protest, Shakur noticed an Asian sushi chef outside Funayama restaurant next door, and warned, "He made a cookie about me — he’ll make one about you".

Not likely. The sushi chef has a job instead of sponging off the system and hustling his skin color.

The sushi chef's kind (assuming he's Asian) are also not known for violence, thievery, and general bad behavior, making the possibility of a caricature cookie unlikely.

Honestly -- it's enough to make you want to move to Greenland sometimes.

15 posted on 03/01/2009 8:14:32 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Not any worse than watermelons at the white house.


16 posted on 03/01/2009 8:14:50 AM PST by Piquaboy
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Shakur says he'll call off the protest if Kefalinos makes a donation to the Harlem school he founded, Gyenyama University.

Ah, yes.....this is called extortion. Shakur learned his lessons well from Jessie and company.

17 posted on 03/01/2009 8:14:50 AM PST by jimtorr
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“Drunken Negro Face”

I don’t cook much, because when I do, stuff usually comes out looking pretty drunk too. I always assumed that was the case with these cookies. he starts out thinking “i’ll make an obama cookie, cash in on all this hype”, then they come out like that, and he’s like “oh well, sell them anyway, people might like them, it’s funny”.

the rest is cookie history


18 posted on 03/01/2009 8:16:00 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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"He made a cookie about me — he’ll make one about you."

OH NO!! NOT THAT!!

19 posted on 03/01/2009 8:16:51 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Think HollywoodÂ’s hit rock bottom? You forget how well they dig. (bighollywood.breitbart.com)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
He could have defused the situation by making an identical face out of white chocolate.
20 posted on 03/01/2009 8:16:54 AM PST by Ditter
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