NBC Cafeteria Menu and Racial Profiling

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/04/nbc-cafeteria-worst-person-in-the-world/ ^ | Feb. 4, 2010

[T.L.Sink]

Here is the actual photograph of the NBC menu in honor of Black History Month that Rush referred to in today's broadcast. All the sign needs is Bill Clinton asking for someone to fetch him some coffee. At least the sign is light colored and not written in "negro dialect." Harry Reid, therefore, approves!

[T.L.Sink]

A stark reminder of how phony many liberals are on the race issue. The only thing less subtle would be to refer to Obama as the "watermelon man" and Michelle as the Aunt Jemima of the White House. But what can one expect from the likes of Olbermann, Matthews and Maddow who are tone-deaf to every other aspect of reality?

[God luvs America]

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[RayChuang88]

Gawd help us all if they serve fried chicken and waffles at the NBC cafeteria. If there is anything even MORE associated with African-American culture it's chicken and waffles.

[massgopguy]

I have been hankering Fried Chicken and Jalapeno Corn Bread all day.

[Ditter]

Blacks folks associated with waffles? First I have heard of it.

[ryan71]

Jalapeno cornbread?

A Mexican in the wood pile?

[GnuHere]

Dang, that is funny. What if I’m black, and partial to wagyu beef, lobster, caviar and arugula, like our Kenyan in Chief?

What if I’m white and like collard greens, can I get served at the same counter, or do I have to come through a back entrance?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Not just “waffles”, “chicken and waffles”. Need to get the stereotypes right. :)

[Not A Snowbird]

At the risk of getting into trouble here, that’s southern food. Where did (Insert PC term here) predominently come from? The south!

We had black friends a few years back who would always bring collard greens and hush puppies if we were having a potluck. We’d be upset if they didn’t. It wasn’t racist, it was just the food they grew up with and enjoyed.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

You are correct. Fried chicken and collard greens were a staple around grandma’s table in the bootheel of Missouri. That side of my family is as redneck as redneck can be, and that menu could have been any number of dinners at grandma’s house (except for the turkey in the greens, odd).

[RayChuang88]

My former supervisor at work--who's now left for another department--served us chicken-fried steak and waffles as part of pot-luck lunch a few months ago. That was delicious!

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[Ditter]

Well, what do ya know! I haven’t seen that one! Thanks for filling me in.

[jackibutterfly]

"Gawd help us all if they serve fried chicken and waffles at the NBC cafeteria. If there is anything even MORE associated with African-American culture it's chicken and waffles"

Waffles??? Really?

[RayChuang88]

According to his gastronomic history stories I've read, the very idea of chicken and waffles served to restaurant customers spread from the Harlem section of New York City during the 1930's, specifically at Wells Supper Club. Wells became legendary for this dish, and other restaurants across the country took up the idea. Today, if I mention to any well-off African-American the very idea of chicken and waffles they'll ask "what's the best place in town for this?" In the Los Angeles area, the Roscoe's chain is VERY well-known in the African-American community.

[T.L.Sink]

Right you are. As a southerner I know that such traditional foods are often enjoyed by both blacks and whites. It’s definitely more of a cultural thing than racial.

[T.L.Sink]

One of the biggest mass migrations in American history took place in the depression years of the 1930’s when blacks moved from the South to the North in hope of better job prospects. I remember reading in a history book (I forget the title) that described train after train after train filled with blacks pulling into Penn Station in NYC - a process that went on for years. That’s when Harlem became black and probably those transplanted blacks brought their southern chicken and waffle recipes with them.

[T.L.Sink]

It was Al Sharpton who told the Kenyan he hadn’t “walked the walk” of American blacks. This was said early on just to let Obama know that he’d better realize that it was he (Sharpton) and Jess Jackson who were still calling the shots.

[RayChuang88]

In fact, a LOT of "Southern recipes" came from a combination of foods eaten by black slaves and white slaveholders in the South. Indeed, black slaves and former black slaves in the South probably originated and refined one very well-known food: barbecued meats.

[T.L.Sink]

Good point. Many don’t realize that even in the bad days of segregation rural whites and blacks lived in greater proximity to each other than in the North and shared a common religious and cultural heritage that included a shared daily diet. Also, the vast majority of whites in the antebellum South were not slave owners and were more familiar with their black neighbors than is realized today. One need only read some of the stories of Mark Twain to get a sense of what race relations were really like in those days.