Posted on 02/28/2018 9:14:14 AM PST by TigerClaws
Would you hesitate to spend $12 for a work-day lunch? How about $30? One big factor affecting your answer to that question is how financially secure you are.
In Central City, a social experiment is under way through Sunday (March 4).
Walk up to a window manned by chef Tunde Wey at Roux Carré, 2000 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., order his Nigerian food and the experiment begins. If you are white, you will be asked to pay $30. If you are black, Latino or Asian, the bill will be $12.
Any diner can elect to pay $12 and be served. The point is not to charge people more for lunch based on their race, Wey said. The point, he said, is to make people experience, in a concrete situation, how income disparities -- which, in New Orleans, starkly run along racial lines -- affect daily decisions like what to pay for lunch, as well as life-altering opportunities and even personal health.
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So you pay $18 extra for your food to be spit in?
What a bargain.
He’s actually demonstrating the bigotry of affirmative action but is too dim to realize it.
Would you hesitate to spend $12 for a work-day lunch? How about $30?
How about $0. That’s what I spend for lunch now as I find it extravagant to spend $30, $12 or even $5 on lunch.
Looks like I'll be going somewhere other than Racist Bitch Turde Wey's little $#!+hole.
How about I stay home and pay zip.
If Rachel Dolezal should appear there, what will she be asked to pay? Transracial recognition is depressingly rare.
When I’m on the road for work, I make a point of not spending any more than $5 for Lunch.
The McDonalds App makes it easier. LOL
We have been doing the income redistribution thing for several decades, these people think like we are doing nothing.
I’d dine and dash and tell him to shove it up his ass on the way out.
Will I at least be able to drink from the good water fountain for my $30?
I think a far better example of this situation would be:
Let’s go grocery shopping at a place where non-minorities are asked to pay 100% of their own money for groceries, while minorities are allowed to take money out of the pocket of the non-minority to buy the same groceries.
If I am tight on money, and cannot afford to buy everything, I would brown-bag my lunch (as I do) and not buy lunch in the cafeteria or in a restaurant.
So, it is moot on “the decisions I make on how much I should spend on lunch”. I manage it responsibly by bringing lunch from home.
No one cares. If the chef was prosecuted, he would be lionized as a martyr, a forward thinker, and a political prisoner.
None that chef Tunde Wey at Roux Carré would care to serve...
I go to lunch for food and relaxing company, not for politics. I would not eat there no matter what.
There are plenty of restaurants I can’t afford to eat at. I already know what that’s like.
If I’m paying 30 bucks for lunch then I’m going to go to Longhorn and have me some real food
this person does not understand income disparity at all. some one working poor cant even think about a 12 $ lunch a 30 $ is not even in the area of contemplating being done. if you are the working poor it left overs from home and sandwiches or if you forgot food from home you might spend 5-7$ at fast food but a lot of times you don’t even eat till you get home. of course I am just the poor white trash that you are trying to teach a lesson with all of this and my guess is that any of the working poor minorities would laugh at this to.
You know what I can get from a good deli for $12?
Then he should have charged the minorities $30 and the whites $12 dontcha think?-)
We are far and long enough into affirmative action that disparities today are not the result of skin color but of choices, primarily choices to squander educational opportunities, to avoid getting a criminal record, to leave “the hood” in search of better environment, to form a viable family or allow that family to fall apart.
Furthermore, there was a time when parents possessed a strong desire to help their children live better lives than themselves. Parents made sacrifices to get children quality education, to broaden their horizons and to develop good values. They also lived frugally so as to avoid being a burden on their children and, perhaps, even leave a small legacy to help those kids. This intergenerational altruism is mostly gone now, among all races (maybe less so in Asian families right now).
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