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?uestlove took a snapshot today of this menu inside the NBC Studios cafeteria. Wha, no watermelon? Happy Black History Month, indeed.
UPDATE: Grio, spoke with NBC’s cook. Ignorance is bliss. Dig in.
Im black
and I gotta say that Blck people are so fucking sensitive got damn everythign is racist and we always getting our feelings hurt
its not that serious
I would love a plate of that food with some hot sauce real talk
Right it bein tied honoring black history makes it seem like a mockery..it’s apparent they didn’t realize it or care enough to change..yes black pple eat those foods..but unlike the references made by others bout if it was for Hispanics they wouldn’t have a problem wit tacos the difference is this..food is apart of culture of everyone..whether your Mexican italian or Indian..food does serve a big role in culture..what makes “soul food” different ( as with many thing in black culture)..unlike any other group this food is a product of oppresion And survival..sure it has been adapted to people eating it today..food should be simple..but no other group’s cultural food is also tied to and a product of their oppression…this is why it’s a sensitve issue..so to other groups it may not b a big deal (even to some black people)…but generally black people know to be careful of things labeled as black history sponsored by white America
Not for nothin but that menu look good as hell. They shoulda had kool aid in that bitch as well. fuck niggas complaining about. Do you get seriously offended that we get stereotyped for eating chicken and watermelon? Shit ain’t that serious. Chicken is good as hell.
And for those black people who are not offended that’s fine…but would u honestly be the one to set this up at your office of majority white coworkers as a salute to black history month when there are so many other legit positive triumphs to talk bout? And if so would u be offended or laugh at the potential black jokes over the food? And if at the end u still say you wouldn’t care ( that’s your perogative) but my final question to you would be..do you too believe we live in a post racial society?
@ M85
None of what you said(true as it may or may not be) makes it any less true that those are in fact traditional African American foods. Yes there origins are steeped in struggle and survival but those foods should serve as a testament that we’ve made it through all of that and we should feel a since of empowerment by the continued existence of these meals. For example traditional Jewish foods like Matzah and Karpas were, like soul food, born out of there slavery and many schools around the country serve Matzah during Passover and no one takes offence. Because you are pointing out that said food is a representation of a certain culture does not suggest that that food is “all those people eat”.
Also you have to look at intent, do you honestly believe it was the intent of whoever made the decision to serve that meal to offend or mock black people? Or do you think they were just trying to honor black history with foods that undeniably have been served in black culture for the better part of the last four hundred years. Making a big deal over little shit like this which isn’t meant to be offensive takes your credibility away when you trying to point out other, more egregious, examples of racism.
BTW just $7.50 for all of that is a damn good price.
^ best thing ever said in the comment section
I’m not sayin that NBC had the intent to offend anyone…in fact many things that do offend pple didn’t have the intent too…vanity fair supposedly didn’t have any bad intent when makin lebron look like king kong holdin a white woman on the cover of their magazine.. not that either situation is earth shattering..all I’m sayin is that it doesn’t seem like the wisest choice…only because food is often made parody about African Americans..which is y it’s different from matzah or karpas…both are apart of the culture and of course I eat soul food but “in honor of black history month” is a bit much and I don’t think we would b almost 60 comments in if it didn’t bring some type of reaction out of people
IF ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED BY THESE FOODS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME AND ITS SUCH A REMINDER OF OPRESSION AND SLAVERY AND BLAH BLAH BLAH….THEN BOYCOTT ALL THE BLACK OWNED RESTAURANTS THAT SERVE THESE FOODS. BOYCOTT KFC AND MCDONALDS AND ALL THE BBQ RIB SPOTS THAT MAKE BLACK PEOPLE FEEL INFERIOR. 400 YEARS AND THESE ARE THE BATTLES THAT ARE CHOSEN TO BE FOUGHT? GET REAL!
its a fact…black people love chicken…..sooo…..why they gettin backlash for this?
@M85
According to Grio.com the woman in that video is the chef that made the decision to put that on the menu, she is black and her intent was definitely not to offend. That should be enough for anybody who had a problem with this.
ok, so this is kind of a facepalm moment, but at the same time it is funny.
oh, and those foods were eventually catergorized as black foods, but are really just southern soul foods transcending race
Italians aren’t ashamed of their love for pizza, Japanese people aren’t offended by their love of sushi. Why are we so ashamed to be us? I, and most of my friends love some fried chicken, there’s nothing wrong with that. People should google Petey Green’s take on how to eat a Watermelon (Don Cheadle played him a few years back). Everything is racist.
ahem….meant “everything’s not racist”
The woman whose idea this was, was a black woman who had been trying for 8 years to get a menu of traditional african american food on that menu during black history month. Why be offended? This is what we eat! We should love it in private and love it in public. Of course this is not all we eat but it is a good representation. If a person wanted to joke about it I could kick back jokes all day about how Italians put sphagetti sauce on everything, or how mexicans put the same ingredients in a different bread and call it something else, or how people from india eat so much curry that they smell like it. But what the fuck thats what they eat. And they prepare them DAMN good! What was the sister supposed to put on the menu? Baked tilapia and white rice with garlic bread with a parmesean and olive oil dipping sauce? FOH
Race will always be an issue in this world. Stereotypes exist because lets face it, most of them are fucking true. Build a bridge and get over it IMO.
ignorance reins supreme over nearly everyone.
…smh
I was told my homophones we’re all fucked up.
ignorance reigns supreme over nearly everyone.
*fixed*
. . . still, smh
Sorry but I find it offensive simply because of the “in honor of black history” blurb at the top. If that was taken off, I’d have no problem. That blurb just makes it seem like blacks are an oddity. Like “Well, what do they eat? Fried chicken and cornbread? Really? That’s so weird.” I’d have mo problem if the cafeteria decided to serve Asian food one day because it encourages diversity. Now I would have a problem if the menu started off by saying “in recognition of all the Asians”. That would be uncalled for and it would seem like the cafeteria workers are being forced to serve something they really don’t want to serve but have to keep the peace.
It’s funny how some people can completely miss the point of an issue.
black people don’t eat Soul Food?……Toya you sound dumb….In recognition of all the Asians?…which Asians….If they were honoring Chinese Americans I would expect them to serve traditional Chinese Food…If it was Japanese then Japanese foods and so on…Asians consist of a bunch of cultures and different traditional foods…..If they were honoring mexicans I would expect Mexican Food…so when they Honor Blacks(Black Americans descendants of African Slaves in America) I expect Soul Food….yall niggas need to shut the fuck up…your whining sets us back…this woman working for progress to have our culture represented in a respectable way and all yall can do is bitch and moan…What have you done for the benefit of black people besides complain about nothing….how about these companies go back to not representing anything Black like they used to pre-70′s, then yall will be complaining about that.
The only thing that I found sorta offensive was the fried chicken….that was just not a sensitive pick, lol…
It is what it is, sometimes the way things are presented has as much to do with why their found offensive as anything else….the words “Black History Month” stir up feelings of respect and gratitude, and so for there to be “fried chicken” right underneath it…man, sorta tacky…
Negroes stepping over dollars to pick up nickels…no one gets upset about slavery in the Sudan, or Rep. Bachmann characterizing the President as a dictator in wait, or NBC’s lack of Black representation among its stars on MSNBC or its leads in its sitcoms…
But yes, lets fly off the handle about Fried Chicken and cause grief to the sister-chef who fought for eight years to make this small gesture for our people. Post-Obama: SS, DD. SMH.
It’s not the menu thats the problem but the way they tried to slide it in on black history month. If it wasnt a problem it wouldn’t have tooken her eight years to get this on a menu. Why isnt it on the menu regardless of what day or month this is, they don’t respect her and she has no real power when it comes down too it. I’m pretty sure she just a minimal wage chef and she has a white boss who felt it would be a good gesture to let her make a menu after eight yrs of hard labor. Hell she should have put some chitterlings up there too and had a extra bottle of hot sauce on the menu cause you know we like are food hot.
what i wanna know is how many blacks work in the kitchen and who is the boss, I bet you they don’t got know black people doing the payrol books, or actually handling the schedule and if they do let them stand up…
We just gone have to start coming together and doing for self like the italians and the mexicans shit i’m waiting on us to actually have a news channel with black reports from the top down so we can do coverage of haiti and other places.. really makes you wonder why we don’t have those type of things on televison..
Look people. Those are SOUTHERN foods. They are neither Black nor White. I personally don’t eat fried chicken, that crap just adds to being overweight and having high blood pressure. It’s just like how some of us do not being referred to by the N-word, yet when someone of another race uses it… WE ARE OFFENDED. This is the same.
IT’S NOT AFRAKAN FOOD…THAT’S SLAVE FOOD, THAT IS THE DIET OF SLAVES….ANCIENT AFRAKANS DO NOT EAT FOOD IN THAT COMBINATION AT ALL….INDIGENOUS AFRAKANS DO NOT EAT IT EITHER….MODERN DAY AFRAKANS DON’T EAT IN THAT COMBINATION EITHER…THIS DIET IS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN TO THE ANNIHILATION OF AFRAKAN PEOPLE IN THE PLACE WE CALL THE UNITED STATES.OF AMERIKKKA.
LETS NOT BE UPSET DOUGH!!!
ON A POSITIVE NOTE, IT HAS SUSTAIN US DURING THE EXPERIENCE….LONG LIVE THE PIG, TURKEY, CHICKEN, AND WHATEVER ELSE.
NINJAJETNWSTKHPRAANKHNPTAHMOSTMAGNIFICENT.
quest love should cut his fuccin hair 1st before he start acting like he care about how we are looked at..i bet wen white ppl or any other race look at him they dont say “now thats what a black man looks like..cmon son cut your hair ..buckwheat is dead
just seeing this. but uh…what is RR going to do to commemorate black history month? not a got damn thing. so fuck the admins on this site’s comments in this case.
it has validity…but can we get some h.rap brown, malcolm x, black panther party, etc etc videos? these people’s existences are why we even have hip hop. but yall niggas still posting wack ass videos, bun b freestyles galore, and freddie gibbs shit. thats yr around, take some time out this month and incorporate some of our illustrious history that birthed the black music we love in hip hop.
oh…i forgot, you don’t a. know enough to create diverse content, or b. u dont REALLY give a fuck. do better.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! NO CANDIED YAMS?! ha!
i’m not black and i love that food. Lighten up ?uest.
OH AND BLACK PEOPLE “listen up”. MORGAN FREEMAN MADE A STATEMENT THAT BLACK HISTORY MONTH SHOULD NOT EXIST. MAINLY BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY is american history. AND THAT’S FROM A RESPECTABLE BLACK MAN…LOOK IT UP FOOLS. WAKE UP!
Nathaniel says:
Friday, February 05 2010 at 10:45 PM EST
i’m not black and i love that food. Lighten up ?uest.
Nathaniel says:
Friday, February 05 2010 at 10:47 PM EST
OH AND BLACK PEOPLE “listen up”. MORGAN FREEMAN MADE A STATEMENT THAT BLACK HISTORY MONTH SHOULD NOT EXIST. MAINLY BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY is american history. AND THAT’S FROM A RESPECTABLE BLACK MAN…LOOK IT UP FOOLS. WAKE UP!
^my nigga get the fuck off my screen name shawty. this shit is getting out of hand. everytime i turn around you impersonating me. B.Dot….you can’t block this IP or something got damn.
This why so many people are so over weight.
i love Italian Food specially those juicy pastas. They are really delicious..~:
i always love italian food, they are really tasty like indian foods.;`;
what i like about italian food is the pasta and spaghetti. they are so yummy`-`
what i like about italian food is the tomato sauce and pasta”.,
i would love to munch so many italian foods, italian foods are the best in my opinion and they are very tasty -.”