Posted on 02/04/2010 4:23:54 PM PST by chessplayer
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.
Crazy.
How ironic and poetic it is to watch NBC taste its own medicine since the liberal MSM was instrumental in creating the monster that is political correctness.
I love fried chicken and I have never understood the alleged racism in chicken.
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Well, it’s not really in the chicken, it was their upbringing.
This honky loves fried chicken and watermelon! Bring it on!
A few years back another similar spat happened on MLK day when some high school had a menu of barbecued ribs, collard greens and sweet potatoes. I was fairly peeved that I didn’t have that meal that day.
I would have gone for the fried chicken.
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It usually stinks in cafeterias. The food that is.
What if you only like the white meat?
Black people DO like fried chicken.
I am so pissed at this PC crap, I would have served watermelon for desert.
In the first place, you show me one black person that does not like both.
We are, as a nation, a bunch of nuts.
Pretty sensitive isn’t he? What did he want Sauer Kraut?
According to our mainstream media: Fried chicken is to blacks what pickup trucks are to whites.
You are exactly right. I’m from the South too, really there is no soul food, it is all southern food. Poor whites and poor blacks have eaten the same things for the last three hundred years. Also, rich whites and rich blacks likewise.
We eat what we can afford to eat. I’ve been the one who thanks God Almighty every day for the food me and my family have the blessing to eat. Ethnic groups eat what they have been exposed to as children. Like the Chinese language- it runs in families- but it is not genetic. It just the way we are reared. So people get over the senitivety, and don’t stand between me and a fried chicken breast.
How do you feel about watermelon?
Sounds like a great menu ~ and with all the major food groups covered as well.
Watermelon was developed by the Chinese to provide a fresh supply of water in rural areas.
I worked in Oklahoma on an oil rig for a few months with some boys from Lousiana. The cook made the meals with them in mind. They were saying one day how he was making black-eyed peas for dinner and going on and on about them. I mentioned they sounded good, I had never had them (or heard of them).
At dinner when they were served I said “They’re just beans!” I almost got slugged I think. Then I think they took pity on me for being an ignorant yankee. Then the questions about have you ever had collard greens? (No) Okra? (No). The rest of them were yes and included Watermelon, ribs, corn on the cob and catfish as I recall.
Did end up having okra. Was pretty good when it was breaded and fried. Now have black-eyed peas every New Years Day (wife’s tradition!).
Whadda ya expect, his name is “Questlove”.
Who are these people? Me, my whole white family, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles were raised on fried chicken, grits, refried beans, bacon grease, greens, cobblers, sweet potatoes, BBQ and all kinds of “black” “soul” food. Probably half the country too.
What’s the big deal “Questlove”? Get over yourself.
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