365 Black (McDonald's celebrates Black History Month all year)

University of Illinois Observer ^ | 04-27-02 | Donald McRonald

[Teacher317]

[Teacher317]

Wouldn't it be nice if some corporate entity would someday celebrate and promote American History this avidly?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Haven't been to a mcdonalds in 10 years. Don't ever plan on going back either. My German Shepard eats better than that gruel.

[Shermy]

The author's name is "Donald McRonald." ???????

[Gelato]

Wouldn't it be nice if some corporate entity would someday celebrate and promote American History this avidly?

Good point.

[APBaer]

"even a few television networks dedicated primarily to African-Americans"

Court TV?
Cops?

[Not now, Not ever!]

There are more than a few people who need a refresher course on American History, Assuming they ever learned anything about it the first time through!

[Captainpaintball]

My college is having a "KENTE CLOTH GRADUATION CEREMONY" on the day before gradutaion. It is a separate, stupid, "multicultural" graduation for blacks.

I wasn't going to go to the REAL graduation ceremony, much to the chagrin of my family. Do you think I should tell them to come to this one? I'll wear a pizza box and a green top hat with a 4-leaf clover sticking out of it.

[Drew68]

Wouldn't it be nice if some corporate entity would someday celebrate and promote American History this avidly?

At least we gave them the shortest month of the year.

[billybudd]

McDonalds is just catering to what it thinks is its primary clientelle. Bunch of racists.

[Zack Nguyen]

The author's name is "Donald McRonald." ???????

That cannot possibly be serious. Nevertheless, I am about to spit food all over my keyboard. LOL

[zarf]

Anyway, you can get the same, yet cheaper, physical effect of eating at Mickey D's by injecting Crisco into your veins every hour.

[opinionator]

"McDonald's celebrates black history all year long."

Obviously written by a white executive. Try this on for size:

"We give props to your peeps, twenty-four seven."

[Teacher317]

I agree. The intriguing part is that I first found this poster (and started hunting the web for reactions to it) at a McDonald's in rural south-central Indiana... an area associated to this day with heavy KKK involvement. The entire county is less than 1% black.

If it weren't for this fact (and the subsequent assumption that I might be a member... and subsequently have my job put in jeopardy), I would have talked to the manager, and asked why they felt racism was acceptable to post in their store. The most basic definition of racism is favoring one race and excluding all others. The '365-Black' program does exactly that.

Isn't that name just dripping with alternative meanings? Let's try some variants replacing one race with another and see of they're accceptable:
All White, all the time.
Asian all year.
Hispanic forever!

[aomagrat]

An article about McDonalds by Donald McRonald.

[dighton]

An article about McDonalds by Donald McRonald.

Almost too good to be true. Mr. McRonald, your birth certificate please.

[Corin Stormhands]

McDonald's has joined this push to celebrate black history throughout the year with their "365 Black" initiative.

Just another white man's tokenism. Racist McDonald's didn't even pick a leap year.
They gave us one of them regular short years. (/sarcasm)

[Uncle Meat]

365 Black (McDonald's celebrates Black History Month all year)

I think they need to up the ante and get rid of Ronald McDonald and replace him with Homey the Clown.[sarcasm]