SHUT UP O"KEEFE IS A HITLER RACIST OR SOMETHING!@#!!!!

Fore Left!!!

I despise NBC just as much as anyone here, but have we done adequate fact-checking for this one?

Follow the source link. This comes from Questlove the house band leader for The Roots (the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)

16 oz. grape soda?

I thought it was cinco de quatro-oh wait a minute that was the President…

This sign and or the intent are not racist. Any more than serving Guinness or Harp infused meals on Saint Patricks day is racist. Do the Irish like Guinness? Yes. Do all Irish people drink Guinness? No. Would I be offended if on March 17th McDonalds had a Shamrock shake? No, and they do.

Who exactly is hurt by a stereotype pointing out that Blacks like fried chicken or the Irish like Guinness. Nobody….Be careful of turning everything into PC terms, it always gets used as a bludgeon against Conservatives first, while the left is off the hook. Refuse to be PC and don't throw stones just use these examples for defense.

What’s with the smoked turkey?

It's like all the streets named after MLK run through the black neighborhoods. Rename a major street after the man.

Yep. I've got a pot of collards an' fatback leftovers in the icebox. And I'm as white as the driven-on snow.

So do you think this menu is indicative of black culture throughout the US? I am guessing that many affluent blacks no longer maintain this style of eating and as such it would be a stereo type.

Just one more thought if Rush L. had asked if this was the menu for the white house on MLK day would that have been racist?

This is ridiculous. A black woman was the chef who created the menu, after eight years of begging to be allowed to cook something nicer for Black History Month than what she's usually allowed to cook. This is what she likes to make and eat herself, so she thought others might enjoy it too. It's a popular menu all around the country, particularly in the South, after all. She's upset and horrified by the reaction she's getting, which, for good reason, she didn't expect. There's nothing racist about it.

Though the comments are right, if FNC had a menu like this, people would be screaming for its destruction.

Hahaha! I've been making that short month joke for years, so it's good to finally find someone else with a similar sense of humor.

On a serious note, I really agree with the argument about having "White" stuff labels. I have never understood how having BET or the NAACP helps solve race issues. I mean I always thought that the purpose of groups like these were to try to bring equality between races, but just by having these labels gives the impression that they have no intention of making things right. My stance on groups like this has always been, why would they fight so hard for integration when they use groups like these to segregate themselves back out? All these groups do is continue to try and make sure that people are always divided by race(i.e. why make it a point to point out someone's race if your trying to bring people together?)

That's too funny… I must've been doing alot of painting when this happened because I missed the Lucky Charms story. Is there video of this anywhere? <edit> found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3WUnFiEJ4
LOL! LOL! the poor woman taking notes! LOL!!! Magically Delicious!!

I'd have to say everybody and not just us poor folks.

Can't help but wonder what they serve on Cinco de Mayo, or the anniversary of the Tet Offensive.

What a bunch of dick noses.

Betcha they don't eat corned beef and cabbage for New Year's Day.

Actually, to be fair, the school where I taught in Atlanta would have a "Soul Food" potluck for the teachers in honor of Black History Month. It's no big deal; and to be honest, that's simply country cookin' like people all over the South and the Appalachians have been eating for years. It's not just black, it's simply good country food.

Def do, esp in projects here in NJ

I reckon they cain't call me a racist no mo'.
I be lovin' dat fried yard bird, with da collards.
I really loves the fried okra, and for special occasions, we even have fried pickles.

Of course, I love "poke chops" just as well.

Priceless!! Yeah, the PC disease needs a good dunking. But I'd have to say hands off of HOOTERS. Is nothing sacred?!?

I am a white person from the south and that food is just as associated with my culture as black culture. It's delicious stuff. I hate that even food is censored. It's all about the context anyway.

Eat up, NBC peeps. You won't get these good vittles next year.

Hands off Hooters!

Nice pun!…………………….

Yep

No okra or chitterlins

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

I'll have the Smoked turkey with the pea's… and ummmmm the water I guess.

Check please!

And some of us are. Like we pointed out- this is just country- cookin' . Maybe some of those Damn Yankees in NYC NBC will appreciate REAL food.

Can we please get off of this politically correct freight train we are on in this country? What if it were Israel day and they served couscous, or American day and they had Cheeseburger and fries? It may be stereotyping but to call it racist implies that there is some sort of hatred because of a persons skin color. Let's be honest here. People from different cultures have exactly that: different cultures. And you know what…it's OK. People all over the world are different, and often times you can tell a lot by the way someone dresses or speaks or yes even the color of their skin. Does that mean that one culture is better or worse than another? Absolutely not, but we should celebrate the cultural differences rather than look to sanitize them. I know lot's of Irish and none of them scream racism when I drink green beer on St. Patrick's Day, although they do get tired of the leprechaun jokes. Should we mandate by law that all people will eat the same and dress the same and speak the same language and their countries should all look the same…ridiculous right? Do all blacks in the US like barbecue? No, but most everyone I know does. Am I racist if I say to a black coworker " want to grab some barbecue for lunch"? Is the Entire US racist for Celebrating Cinco De Mayo by getting hammered on Coronas? Let's stop the insanity. I grew up when different races wanted to got to war with each other to "kill em all", "the only good one is a dead one". There was real hatred for each other back then. That was racism………..this is just lunch.

This is what I tell people down here in Possumbutt, Texas: "When you perpetuate this racist slur, you, suh, are perpetuating something that was originally A YANKEE SLUR ON THE WHOLE SOUTH! How do you feel about it now?"

Good points. That's what all of that 'diversity' garbage was about. Leftist swine don't want to bring people together or they wouldn't be able to use their main weapons of envy and resentment.

St. Pat's is sort of a given. In the Green Island itself, it's also common on NYD.

How about some Watermelon for desert washed down with a Colt .45 Tall Boy and some Mad Dog?
Did I say that outloud?

Hey guise, we'll never defeat PC if we turn PC when it's politically convenient (here and the "retard" incident). This is NOT racist. What is racist about this situation is that a bunch of white NBC employees and while liberal bloggers felt they had the right to take offense on behalf of black people, essentially throwing a decent hard working black chef under the bus for PCness. Don't bite that apple guys.

i make corn (cone) bread every other day without a thought that it is black history month…guess i better turn myself in

My husband says the best soul food to be had anywhere could be found on the South Side of Chicago, at a University of Chicago campus cafeteria. He is Atlanta born and bred, and has had collards in many different places. And they served southern cooking year-round, not just during "black history month". (And I'm sure Obama hates the stuff.)

Yeah, but it's a special type of lunch served only during a special time of year to honor special people. Why not have it once a week or twice a month? When is "Jewish history month", and where is the chicken soup and half a pastrami on rye or challah bread sandwich with a black and white cookie? What about Chinese history month?

Well then ask her "what is this crap about 'smoked turkey' in the collards?" SMOKED HAMHOCKS go in the collards! You know it and I know it. And I bet that chicken was fried in safflower oil instead of bacon grease or lard like God intended. MM-mm-mm. I'm sure it was all a nice change from arugula sprayed with dandelion essence or whatever they eat up there in NBC land, but if you're gonna do it, do it up right.

How about "have these things on the menu all year"? Collards are high in folic acid and vitamin C and iron, I think. All that soul food stuff is nutritious. Depending on how much salt/lard you cook it with, it can be good for you or just delicious.

not to mention, when Tiger Woods won his first Masters(?) and thus the privilege of choosing the menu for the awards dinner, Fuzzy Zoeller got ripped for making a comment about fried chicken, etc…

That's perfect! LOL!

I completely agree that there is nothing racist about the menu (heck I love fried chicken, and I'll never say no to some tasty cornbread). But as you say, there would be outrage if FNC had announced this menu. I dare say several well-known NBC commentators would be shouting about the "insensitivity" and "racist" nature of it all. So why shouldn't we point that out?

They forgot the watermelon and 40 oz. malt liquor.

OMG!
That's a good deal.

And it would have been great and very funny, in my view, if Tiger had picked his favorite menu for the night but provided a special plate of Fried Chicken, Collard Greens and Watermelon just for Fuzzy. As individuals we make fun of our friends as they make fun of us, laugh more and spend less time buying into the left PC double speak nonsense.

This is what made Gran Torino such a great movie.

Don't bogart the bucket O'D! Pass it along to this pasty-white Irish boy! I demand equal access!

Hey, I don't know about you people, but I love Southern Fried Chicken and some Collards….

mmm… mmm…. MMMMMM

the 20 oz. Aquafina was supposed to be a 40 oz. Turbo malt liquor…

They forgot on the menu watermelon and kool-aid.

My buddy Dwayne, a black guy, walked in as I was reading this over at Hot Air. I just showed him the menu, explained that it was at the NBC cafeteria, and asked him what he thought about it. He was like "Oh. Soul food." Then I told him that this was now a racism kerfuffle. His response to that was "What? Are you f***ing kidding me?"

He didn't use the asterisks though. And we both agreed that fried chicken can be very tasty. We did not discuss collard greens.

Bueno Pablo. No mas.

I am half black, but the white side of me loves this food too.Growing up in the South,this was standard fare for everyone.Hard to get good food like that in Colorado

I'm black and I LOVE collard greens, fried chicken and black eyed peas. These are just foods that are part of the "black" culture. I love mexican and italian also, but it wasn't mexican or italian hiistory month. If it were, it would be taco's, enchiladas, burritos, etc. Those are black foods for black history month, makes sense to me, a black woman. ??????

Yeah, it just happens that black fold been po' so these foods carried over from generation to generation in black households.

The only person I ever knew who drank mad dog was WHITE

If you had spent any time in the South, you'd realize otherwise. My grandfather, for example, was at the opposite end of the socioeconomic scale and yet favored such basic "country cookin'" his entire life.

It became identified as a "black" cuisine – "soul food" – when southern blacks brought it with them to Northern cities during the Black Diaspora during and after WWI.

I have wanted to write your sister a letter of support but did not know how to reach her. I'll just do it through you instead. I love what she did. She obviously put a lot of thought and work into the meal. I can imagine how heartbroken and shocked she must have been to think that people thought it was malicious. I bet instead it was delicious. I am white and wish I could have had some of her cooking. I grew up on the very same food. I remember my grandmother from Tennessee cooking collard greens. (And I do it now) And did we love fried chicken and watermelon !!
I hope she realizes that sometimes when you have an independent idea, those who only follow the crowd will attack you out of their ignorance. She may now have the necessary publicity to open her own restaurant and leave NBC in the dust. Do it !!

The smoke turkey is to help flavvor the greens instead of using pork

It so sad that you can't even have a meal withoutn being a racist. So if I have some corn bread during black history mont that wrong, or Beritoes the 5th of may nor during Rashanna some kosher meals? gee itn ton hard to eat.

as a black person this is soooo silly, I like all types of food and I was not offended. Soul food is just msoutheren cooking grew up on it and so did many people in then southn black and white.

You are so on point. The real story is how Black people are viewed period not just by liberals. We are not so sensitive that hey we can't eat freid chicken or greens. This is not all we eat, there are plenty of foods served from all over the world in this country and just like most American black people like food all different types of food. Do most Black people eat southern (soul food) some or most. Hell I'm Black and can't answer that. Maybe if you want to find racism in anything you can. Liberal/conservative it dosen't mater we are so divided with finger pointing that we can't even sit down and enjoy a meal. King must be laughing.

Black people like white meat of chicken (breast or wings) and mash potatoes with white gravey, califlower, vanilla puding and Chardina. That sounds like the Sunday dinner I grew upm on except the wine. Can I keep my ID of being black?

Wow. Really? Overall, black people do eat these items from the menu. And? I have to add the old standby that "White people eat that too". I'm not offended at the menu. The stupid menu is just the tip of the iceberg. Sigh.