are they retarded? (speaking of offensive)
posted by miss b, February 7, 2002 04:10 PM
Oh, that's lovely. Reminds me of when I was a freshman in college and the cafeteria offered a "Black History Month Meal": fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread.
I don't know if those retards got fired, but no one was very happy.
posted by space, February 7, 2002 08:05 PM
I have to ask. Soul food is considered part of the African-American...image, mythos, history, whatever. Right? And fried chicken is soul food. Correct? If I'm wrong, tell me. But I don't go suing the hell out of every store in town that offers specials on Sauerkraut in honor of Oktoberfest. I agree that fried chicken can be included with negative stereotyping but isn't that part of Black history? I'm not happy about the stereotyping either, but it IS history. Maybe I'm just being argumentative.
posted by VW, February 8, 2002 06:31 AM
You've got a good point.
If the market had been a mom-and-pop store in the middle of a black neighborhood, owned by a black couple, we'd never hear about it, for the same reason that my black friend can says "mah niggaz" on the phone with his friends, but I were to walk into the room with the same greeting...
(Aside from the obvious lack of 'street' on me.)
Everyone's got standards to live up to. They just aren't the same.
posted by Doyce, February 8, 2002 09:19 AM
Ok, so I discussed this with my husband, who by the way is a black man, and he was equally as insulted as anyone else. Did you know that although Fried Chicken is soul food that more white people eat fried chicken then black people and more white people own places like KFC etc, etc. Besides it was just a damn insulting way to sell chicken.
posted by Bonnie, February 8, 2002 01:15 PM
Yeah, I agree it was a less than tasteful sales angle.
posted by VW, February 8, 2002 01:26 PM
