As I posted a few weeks ago in the thread about a similar dustup in Denver Public Schools, a school I worked at had a culinary arts program that did a special menu one day in February that featured “soul food”. You had to sign up early to ensure you could get the meal. It featured such things as fried chicken, greens, corn bread, sweet potato pie, etc. Even more interesting was the instructional staff and students were mostly AfAm. I seriously doubt such a complaint would be successfully lodged against this meal, given the circumstances.
Sounds like a great menu ~ and with all the major food groups covered as well.
“’soul food’. . . . featured such things as fried chicken, greens, corn bread, sweet potato pie, etc.”
As though all of these foods originated with blacks. Who in their right mind thinks whites weren’t eating these foods on their own without any influence from blacks? So now blacks own them as “soul food” and can therefore set rules as to when others can serve them or how they have to be careful about making them available if blacks are around?
The easily offended crowd needs to take a hike. A permanent hike.
In February, we had soul food, St. Patrick's Day was corned beef and cabbage. We did Cinco de Mayo, Fourth of July, and of course Thanksgiving and Christmas. We even did Philippines Independence Day (once we found out there was such a holiday).
It was great, and everybody got along just fine.