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Happy Juneteenth ...TRY THE WATERMELON SALAD!!! 😳​


The Indianapolis Children's Museum is in hot water after serving up a racially insensitive dish ... specifically to commemorate Juneteenth.
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Yes, that pic shows the watermelon salad being sold in the museum cafeteria, and they're not even subtle about the racism, as the label reads ... "Juneteenth Watermelon Salad."

One ticked-off patron's reaction to the shocking menu item was, "No joke!!!"

A rep for the museum is defending the salad, saying its food service partners "planned a Juneteenth menu as a way for us to raise awareness of the holiday's meaning, and commemorate their own family traditions."

While that makes it sound like the food service company is Black-owned, we haven't been able to confirm that yet.

The rep also says "Red foods have historically been served by some to remember the blood that was shed along the way to freedom." We've never heard that one before, but okay.

They did offer a mea culpa though, saying, "The museum apologizes and acknowledges the negative impact that stereotypes have on communities of color. We have removed the salad from our menu. We value our relationships with all of our visitors and communities. We have learned from this experience."
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The museum -- which is throwing a "Juneteenth Jamboree" -- correctly states on its website that Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., and is also called Emancipation Day or Juneteenth Independence Day.

Some more facts for you: Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. Although President Lincoln abolished slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 ... word didn't reach Galveston, Texas -- the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery -- until June 19, 1865 ... hence the holiday.
 
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At least they didn't post pictures of fried chicken and grits. Then they'd have real problems.
Cardenio said:
And I never understood the racist "stereotyping" that blacks love their Fried Chicken.

Who doesn’t love Fried Chicken?
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It was originally a southern thing I believe, and most black Americans have roots in the south? Correct me if I'm wrong but it's been a thing for centuries regardless of its origins.
 
Wasn't it last year some school got in trouble because they let a Black teacher decide the menu for a Juneteenth meal, and she chose watermelon & fried chicken?
Or was it this past February?

Either way, Black people are not allowed to eat watermelon or fried chicken. That would be racist.
 
Cardenio said:
And I never understood the racist "stereotyping" that blacks love their Fried Chicken.

Who doesn’t love Fried Chicken?
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Don't quote me if I'm wrong, but iirc it's because relative to other livestock such as cows and sheep, chickens not only were/are lower maintenance but also cheap to purchase.
 
Cardenio said:
And I never understood the racist "stereotyping" that blacks love their Fried Chicken.

Who doesn’t love Fried Chicken?
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Everyone loves fried food nowadays. I think the stereotype goes way, way, way, back to a time when everything white people ate was either boiled, roasted, or baked. Think of old timey British food and how long Anglo Saxons must have stuck with those methods of cooking even after emigrating to America.
 
Unless you are in Texas Juneteenth is a stupid holiday.
Lincoln the "Great Emancipator" didn't do anything for the slaves in the Northern states.
They were still property until the 13th amendment passed.


Besides there is already a much more important holiday on June 19th.
On June 19th 1978 the comic strip Garfield debuted and that date is celebrated as Garfield's Birthday.
So celebrate December 6th, the date the 13th amendment was ratified, if you want but leave June 19th alone.
 
Why the fuck is this "news" on a celebrity gossip site? This is exactly why you don't try and pander to groups that have been conditioned to find shit to be outraged about. Even if the menu curated by a black person it won't stop the outrage train for even a minute. You can't win so the only smart option in the current climate is avoidance.
 
Spirelord said:
Don't quote me if I'm wrong, but iirc it's because relative to other livestock such as cows and sheep, chickens not only were/are lower maintenance but also cheap to purchase.
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My sense is that it was easy for slaves to keep their own chickens. I think they also frequently kept pigs, too.

But having participated in the cooking of fried chicken, I suspect that part of the "appeal" is that it's like tamales, where making a VAST AMOUNT is as easy as making a little, and it keeps, too.

It's summer in Louisiana, it's hotter than Satan's nut sack, air conditioning won't be invented for a hundred years, nobody wants to expend any extra effort in the heat, so you fry up a whole passel of chicken at 6 in the morning at have it for lunch and dinner. Cold macaroni salad and watermelon would have the same appeal of not having to stand over a hot stove during the hottest part of the day.

One thing that I wish was taught in schools is how many (most?) plantations were basically like an island, where almost everything the plantation needed was produced on site, and a lot of slaves were actually skilled craftsmen like blacksmiths and carpenters. The annual cotton crop would be sold for cash, and that cash would be used to buy things that could not be made. And cotton picking was only part of the annual cycle. I'm not woke but the idea that slaves spent all their time picking cotton and getting whipped is pretty dehumanizing. They led more interesting lives than that.

These make for interesting reading:

www.loc.gov

About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the...
www.loc.gov
 
Spirelord said:
Don't quote me if I'm wrong, but iirc it's because relative to other livestock such as cows and sheep, chickens not only were/are lower maintenance but also cheap to purchase.
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I'm quoting you because I've seen this line trotted out with vehemence and it's BS. a chicken was too valuable to eat while it was still laying eggs it was only after they stopped laying eggs that they'd be used for food, but their flesh becomes so tough it's only suitable for stock or soups. In the early 1900's you'd still see old hens sold as boiling fowls.
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Pigeon, rabbit, mutton, Lobster and other seafood as well as salted/preserved meat were poverty foods. Not heavily spiced deep fried chicken.
 
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I'm quoting you because I've seen this line trotted out with vehemence and it's BS. a chicken was too valuable to eat while it was still laying eggs it was only after they stopped laying eggs that they'd be used for food, but their flesh becomes so tough it's only suitable for stock or soups. In the early 1900's you'd still see old hens sold as boiling fowls.View attachment 3353425
Pigeon, rabbit, mutton, Lobster and other seafood as well as salted/preserved meat were poverty foods. Not heavily spiced deep fried chicken.
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Half of the chicks are going to be male and they cry and commit suicide they're never going to lay eggs.
 
I'm allergic to watermelon and that salad sounds hella good. I guarantee the people mad about this are overly sensitive obeasts pissed off that healthy food is touching the watermelon and are using race as an excuse to avoid a salad.
 
The whole "blacks eating watermelon is racist and not just that but HORRIFICALLY UNFORGIVABLY racist" trope is easily the most retarded trope in all of current year's retarded tropes.
 
Black folks (which really means Southern folks, it's all the same) have much better food than the bland inedible garbage Yankees eat. Ooh, a sandwich, a pizza, some soup, how exciting.
KiwiFuzz said:
My sense is that it was easy for slaves to keep their own chickens. I think they also frequently kept pigs, too.

But having participated in the cooking of fried chicken, I suspect that part of the "appeal" is that it's like tamales, where making a VAST AMOUNT is as easy as making a little, and it keeps, too.

It's summer in Louisiana, it's hotter than Satan's nut sack, air conditioning won't be invented for a hundred years, nobody wants to expend any extra effort in the heat, so you fry up a whole passel of chicken at 6 in the morning at have it for lunch and dinner. Cold macaroni salad and watermelon would have the same appeal of not having to stand over a hot stove during the hottest part of the day.

One thing that I wish was taught in schools is how many (most?) plantations were basically like an island, where almost everything the plantation needed was produced on site, and a lot of slaves were actually skilled craftsmen like blacksmiths and carpenters. The annual cotton crop would be sold for cash, and that cash would be used to buy things that could not be made. And cotton picking was only part of the annual cycle. I'm not woke but the idea that slaves spent all their time picking cotton and getting whipped is pretty dehumanizing. They led more interesting lives than that.

These make for interesting reading:

www.loc.gov

About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the...
www.loc.gov
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This is a big deal to me because people talk like slavery was unskilled labor, but it wasn't? Just because there were no slave doctors or slave lawyers that doesn't mean it was unskilled, many of the slaves were tradesmen and even being a house servant is a trade (see what people would pay butlers). Slaves entered the post-emancipation workforce with all the useful skills they needed to build a society from the ground up, minus some stuff like engineers, accountants, surgeons, etc. Even then overseers were usually Black, not White, so administrative experience was common and herbalists ARE doctors, they're just doctors who don't speak Latin.
 
Back twenty years ago (fuck, I'm old), my midwestern college's menu had a fried chicken day to celebrate black history month, along with ribs and sweet potato pie and watermelon.

It was fucking delicious. Even in February, which isn't exactly peak watermelon season.

Five people from the food services crew who had initiated/approved the menu were fired/forced to resign.

This insanity is nothing new. It's just as dumb as it was then, but it isn't new.
 
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