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Calif. school apologizes for black history lunch menu[W:250]

The point, which you seem to have missed, is that just because "we won that war" doesn't mean we just ignore all the issues that led to it as if they were ancient history.

We also don't expect every modern day German to wear sack cloth and ashes and hang their heads in shame at all times and look for the slightest anti-semitic nuance in dress, language, or cuisine. Most Germans living today had nothing whatsoever to do with WWII or anything that led up to it just as no Americans living today had anything whatsoever to do with slavery and very few had anything to do with segregation or discrimination against blacks. The history should be taught yes. We should never forget yes. But neither should the innocent living be held accountable for the sins of their ancesters. And Germans should not keep anti-semitism alive and never allow a Jewish person to be assimilated into normal German society. And Americans should not keep racism alive and use silly political correctness to remind black people that they aren't ready to be fully assimilated into American culture.
 
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Kinda stupid, but I for one would have enjoyed that meal.

I love all the things on the menu but I think it is not the right meal for black appreciation month IMHO. There must be other meals more suitable for that. Food that black people are famous for. Gumbo, soul food, crayfish, shrimp etc. might have been more appropriate than fried chicken and watermelon.
 
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The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.
 
Re: Calif. school apologizes for black history lunch menu

The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.

When I read your posts, I feel like I'm deciphering ancient hieroglyphics.
 
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Or Motown and Philly soul, when I was younger I was more of a "rock only" guy but as I branch out I find myself going further back in time and enjoying the classics, everything from classical music, to rock, soul, and country but the Motown/Philly/Chitown soul is something unique and powerful, I dare people not to smile when listening.

Thanks and you're right. Black culture had contributed immeasurably when it comes to music. The Motown era was a little before my time but the foundation it laid was built upon to create today's pop and urban music. I'm sure if asked Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Cindy Lauper, Christina Aguilaria, and Hall and Oats would give credit to the black musicians in history as their influences. I even met a Christian pop singer once named Chris August who says Stevie Wonder was his biggest influence.

Sometime you just want to kick it old school and listen to some Smokey Roblinson and the Miracles.

 
We also don't expect every modern day German to wear sack cloth and ashes and hang their heads in shame at all times and look for the slightest anti-semitic nuance in dress, language, or cuisine. Most Germans living today had nothing whatsoever to do with WWII or anything that led up to it just as no Americans living today had anything whatsoever to do with slavery and very few had anything to do with segregation or discrimination against blacks. The history should be taught yes. We should never forget yes. But neither should the innocent living be held accountable for the sins of their ancesters. And Germans should not keep anti-semitism alive and never allow a Jewish person to be assimilated into normal German society. And Americans should not keep racism alive and use silly political correctness to remind black people that they aren't ready to be fully assimilated into American culture.

Some on the left seem to disagree with you and will blame others who had no connections to the past and will blame them for what others did before them be they their ancestors or not.
 
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When I read your posts, I feel like I'm deciphering ancient hieroglyphics.

Are you anti-immigrants?:shock:
 
Re: Calif. school apologizes for black history lunch menu

I love all the things on the menu but I think it is not the right meal for black appreciation month IMHO. There must be other meals more suitable for that. Food that black people are famous for. Gumbo, soul food, crayfish, shrimp etc. might have been more appropriate than fried chicken and watermelon.

Shrimp snd crawfish aren't anymore Black than Spanish, Cajun, or French. Cajuns made crawfish a delecacy, because when they were dumped off in South Louisiana, they had to utilize whatever food sources they could find. Boiled, or fried crawfish isn't representitive of Black culture in America.

Be careful when you suggest "soul food"; fried chicken is the list, along with greens, ham hocks, fried porkchops and cornbread and any other "racist" dishes.
 
The point, which you seem to have missed, is that just because "we won that war" doesn't mean we just ignore all the issues that led to it as if they were ancient history.

Those issues no longer exist; no one is alive that remembers when they existed. It's time to stop acting as if it's reality.
 
The more I read about this issue the more I think it's just some people looking for an issue to complain about.
 
The more I read about this issue the more I think it's just some people looking for an issue to complain about.

I figured that out at post #1.
 
I figured that out at post #1.

Agitators.

That's all they are. Always causing trouble, dividing the people. No diffrent than anarchist.

After more than four decades of these agitators, I've had enough.

I have a message for them.

" Now who the #### do you think you are
Trying to #### and divide my friends
Come around try it again and see how it ####### ends
Better hope you never see me again
Cause if those drugs don't #### you up, I will "

Not my lyrics but how I feel.

Aren't community organizers nothing more than agitators ?
 
Some on the left seem to disagree with you and will blame others who had no connections to the past and will blame them for what others did before them be they their ancestors or not.

Probably everybody on the left disagree with me, but this is a topic I feel strongly about. Morgan Freeman is right that the way to correct omission of black people from the history books we all use is to include black people appropriately in those history books. It is not by having a 'Black History Month' that emphasizes that black people are separate from everybody else. And the best way to combat racism is to stop talking about it.

Using the same logic, the way we keep really good foods like fried chicken, cornbread, and watermelon from becoming racial slurs is to stop treating them like they are.
 
Probably everybody on the left disagree with me, but this is a topic I feel strongly about. Morgan Freeman is right that the way to correct omission of black people from the history books we all use is to include black people appropriately in those history books. It is not by having a 'Black History Month' that emphasizes that black people are separate from everybody else. And the best way to combat racism is to stop talking about it.

Using the same logic, the way we keep really good foods like fried chicken, cornbread, and watermelon from becoming racial slurs is to stop treating them like they are.

I'm willing to bet that it was a white liberal agitator who took offense that fried chicken and watermelon was served for lunch and eaten by white school children.

And what do white liberals do ? They agitate and went looking for self appointed leaders of the black communities yelling whites are racist, look what they're doing, they are eating fried chicken and to prove they are racist, they had some watermelon.
 
I'm willing to bet that it was a white liberal agitator who took offense that fried chicken and watermelon was served for lunch and eaten by white school children.

And what do white liberals do ? They agitate and went looking for self appointed leaders of the black communities yelling whites are racist, look what they're doing, they are eating fried chicken and to prove they are racist, they had some watermelon.

Could be. I don't know. I do know that had I been an administrator at that school, if somebody had said something about the cuisine, I would have asked the students if they liked the food. It is a safe bet that 99% of them did like it. And then I would have explained that it was served especially in honor of Black History Month because this is among many great foods that mostly black people once created and/or ate long ago and we are so glad they did. Because it is so good and everbody can enjoy it now.

You take foods away from the politically correct crowd to use for propaganda by refusing to use it in that way.
 
I'm willing to bet that it was a white liberal agitator who took offense that fried chicken and watermelon was served for lunch and eaten by white school children.

And what do white liberals do ? They agitate and went looking for self appointed leaders of the black communities yelling whites are racist, look what they're doing, they are eating fried chicken and to prove they are racist, they had some watermelon.

Saw an old movie I had long forgotten... "THE WATERMELON MAN" starring black comedian Godfrey Cambridge ... in "whiteface"... I was chuckling all through it. That movie could not be made today probably.. Someone would bitch. Remember when we could laugh at ourselves and our sometimes screwy-funny attitudes?

Good day to ya' A R

Thom Paine
 
Saw an old movie I had long forgotten... "THE WATERMELON MAN" starring black comedian Godfrey Cambridge ... in "whiteface"... I was chuckling all through it. That movie could not be made today probably.. Someone would bitch. Remember when we could laugh at ourselves and our sometimes screwy-funny attitudes?

Good day to ya' A R

Thom Paine

The last bastion of where Americans can still laugh at themselves and laugh at others are comedy clubs. And you watch, they are the next target of the white beard scratching liberals.

I posted above what has taken place in our military. That just about every joke there is will get you in trouble. My post was about a conversation I heard from some Marines at Camp Pendleton.

My favorite comedy club is The Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, Ca. (My old stopping grounds) Jay Leno is a regular at the club on many weekend nights.

If any member of our military were to attend one of the shows and repeat some of the jokes on base, they would find themselves standing before the man, being reduced in rank and visiting Obama's Diversity Officer (political officer)

I wonder what Red Foxx would have to say about todays liberal political correctness ? Don Rickles seems to still get away with what he does. Believe me, he's tough on the Japanese and it's funny. And Japanese tourist and businessmen laughing harder than anyone with tears running down their faces.

I think Don Rickles is the last living great comedian.
 
Re: Calif. school apologizes for black history lunch menu

The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.

I REALLY like this idea. A food exchange activity works quite well in ESL courses and avoids any accusations of racism.
 
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Oh hellz to the yeah, sounds yummy.

Well, it would be a school lunch facsimile, so I wouldn't get too excited.
 
Those issues no longer exist; no one is alive that remembers when they existed. It's time to stop acting as if it's reality.

Nobody is older than 50? Wow, I guess life expectancy is lower in the South.
 
Re: Calif. school apologizes for black history lunch menu

The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.

Wow, black people have never cooked for themselves before? Wow, you learn something new everyday.
 
We also don't expect every modern day German to wear sack cloth and ashes and hang their heads in shame at all times and look for the slightest anti-semitic nuance in dress, language, or cuisine. Most Germans living today had nothing whatsoever to do with WWII or anything that led up to it just as no Americans living today had anything whatsoever to do with slavery and very few had anything to do with segregation or discrimination against blacks. The history should be taught yes. We should never forget yes. But neither should the innocent living be held accountable for the sins of their ancesters. And Germans should not keep anti-semitism alive and never allow a Jewish person to be assimilated into normal German society. And Americans should not keep racism alive and use silly political correctness to remind black people that they aren't ready to be fully assimilated into American culture.

Yes, but that doesn't mean you just ignore things. If a German leader came along talking about the things Hitler talked about, I'd expect the German people to be a little worried. Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.

Now if you ask me, the whole thing with this issue is just darn silly. Starting with lazy ass menu planners who said "I know what black people eat - fried chicken and watermelon!" Really, that's the best anyone could come up with is a stereotype? Maybe the fault is with the fact that there are those who don't know anything about other people that's not a stereotype. Seriously, you're trying to connect black people and food, and the best you can do is a stereotype?

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that it turned into a Conservative tard fest - anytime you mention race in a way that isn't against white people, the usual suspects line up to deny it. I actually only posted it because of the sheer stupidity involved. The people who came up with it should be fired - not for being racist but for being stupid.
 
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Wow, black people have never cooked for themselves before? Wow, you learn something new everyday.

What? Nothing he wrote indicated what you claimed above.
 
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