IKEA’s Juneteenth Menu, Consisting Of Watermelon And Fried Chicken, Sparks Outrage
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June 23, 2021I love fried chicken and watermelon and I’m so white I could be transparent. This is typical Southern food. Anyone who is offended by this is clearly racist. Oh, but it’s ‘reverse racism’ so it doesn’t count.
…it’s also kind of hilarious. I literally laughed out loud when I saw the initial headline because you can’t make this stuff up.
PLUS, this particular IKEA is in freaking Georgia – it doesn’t get much more Southern than that.
According to the NY Post –
An Atlanta branch of the Scandinavian furniture chain has sparked outrage with what employees are calling an intensely problematic menu curated to celebrate the holiday, which marks the emancipation of the very last enslaved Americans.
“To honor the perseverance of Black Americans and acknowledge the progress yet to be made, we observe Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19, 2021,” begins an email acquired by TMZ, which was sent to employees at the branch last week. “Look out for a special menu on Saturday which will include: fried chicken, watermelon, mac n cheese, potato salad, collard greens, candied yams.”
The employees reacted in outrage, suggesting that these menu items were historically demeaning to African-Americans.
An anonymous employee expressed that watermelon was fed to slaves…? I haven’t read that in my history books but watermelon is freaking delicious sooo…
“You cannot say serving watermelon on Juneteenth is a soul food menu when you don’t even know the history. They used to feed slaves watermelon,” an anonymous employee told Atlanta’s CBS 46. “It caused a lot of people to be upset. People actually wanted to quit. People weren’t coming back to work.”
This IKEA location reported that none of the co-workers who created the menu were black and that they should have been more inclusive of people of color.
Somehow that’s supposed to be of relevance.
How good of a life you must have for fried chicken to piss you off enough to quit your job. Liberals will find any reason to be offended enough to not work.
