Not folks of "color", but blacks. Here's the reason...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
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.
Not folks of "color", but blacks. Here's the reason...
“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.
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.
Ya know you never hear “Hey lets have some Nigerian food tonight”
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.
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.
Nigerian food? No thanks, pal. You pay me and I’ll see if the pigeons like it.
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”.
Just hope you don’t get the social justice sauce
I hope that jackass get sued for discrimination.
Same here. I bring leftovers with me, and microwave it at lunch time. This way, I know exactly what’s in my food.
The fastest land animal on earth is the Nigerian chicken.
5.56mm
$12 lunch? That’s ridiculous. Brown bag is healthier and economical.
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