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Could a single lunch change your views on race and wealth?
Nola.com ^

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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To: TigerClaws

I pay about $2 for a work-day lunch. Maybe if I paid less taxes to support a bunch of freeloaders and foreign enemies, I would be able to eat lunch “out” once in a while, and splurge on the $5 special.


41 posted on 02/28/2018 10:53:57 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: TigerClaws
""Generally, folks of color have less wealth," Wey said."

Not folks of "color", but blacks. Here's the reason...


42 posted on 02/28/2018 10:56:14 AM PST by aquila48
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To: ClearCase_guy

“There are many privileges to being Black.
There are no privileges to being White.”

I have a black friend who has a white child. Ask the child if it is better to be white and he will say Yes every time.


43 posted on 02/28/2018 10:59:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: kiryandil

The French Quarter has some mighty fine restaurants that will set you back a lot less than $30. I can get a shrimp poboy on the Riverwalk for a lot less than $12.


44 posted on 02/28/2018 11:24:49 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: TigerClaws

Ya know you never hear “Hey lets have some Nigerian food tonight”


45 posted on 02/28/2018 11:32:10 AM PST by al baby (`4)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I have had American Indian/Mexican girl from high school, and her Caucasian husband lecture me on white privilege. I’m white skinned, have sickle cell trait (carrier, no affects from the disease), and am part American Indian, to boot. I just laughed them off — there are no benefits to being white. if someone doesn’t feel they have to clutch their purse tighter because i’m approaching, that’s not on ME, that’s on THEM.


46 posted on 02/28/2018 11:38:51 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

A business colleague of mine is white. Her husband is from the Carribean. His skin is black, but since that is the crossroads of the world his ethnic background includes Hispanic, Asian Indian, Chinese, and just about anything else.

Their children would have to answer “All of the Above” on those stupid government race forms.


47 posted on 02/28/2018 11:47:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

Nigerian food? No thanks, pal. You pay me and I’ll see if the pigeons like it.


48 posted on 02/28/2018 11:55:21 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If it asks for Race, I always check other and put “Human”.

More often lately, it asks for “Ethnic background” - and I check as many as possible, or check “Other - Mixed American”.


49 posted on 02/28/2018 12:58:37 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: PGR88

Just hope you don’t get the social justice sauce


50 posted on 02/28/2018 1:24:29 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: TigerClaws

I hope that jackass get sued for discrimination.


51 posted on 02/28/2018 2:53:45 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Flick Lives

Same here. I bring leftovers with me, and microwave it at lunch time. This way, I know exactly what’s in my food.


52 posted on 02/28/2018 2:59:00 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: TigerClaws

The fastest land animal on earth is the Nigerian chicken.

5.56mm


53 posted on 02/28/2018 3:06:41 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: TigerClaws

$12 lunch? That’s ridiculous. Brown bag is healthier and economical.


54 posted on 03/01/2018 5:46:03 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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