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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three
years that donkey of the day is a new wife. Wow,
Donkey of to day for Wednesday, June goes to management
at an Atlanta i Kea store. Now, I know folks
believe that social media attended to overreact nowadays to a
lot of things. I don't even call it an overreaction
because we're walk around with tools that encourage us to
react period. Okay, that encourage us to have an opinion
(00:24):
on things. We have our smart phones, we have our laptops,
and we have platforms, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
whatever it is, wherever it is, we have these sites
where the soul commodity on these platforms is us, our voices.
So I often wonder how much do people really truly
care about the things they act like they care about
on social media? Are they just content? Do they act
(00:44):
like they care because they feel they are supposed to?
Are they simply have to because they have the platforms
to do it. I'll give you a clear example. Remember
I think it was David Allen Green, David Allen, Grid
Keen and every wins are senior Hall. One of them
said here on the breakfast club. If you wanted to
complain about the TV you show back in the day,
or if you want to complain about anything, you have
to write a letter. Okay, you have to mail it.
Facts it like, it took a lot more effort to
(01:06):
complain about something, to be outraged about something like you
had to put actual time, effort and energy into something
to complain about it. Nowadays you just whip about your phone.
So it's hard to tell if people really are upset.
Are they just need content for the day for whatever
platforms they are on. Not then mentioned just the group
think that happens in these situations. People see a large
amount of people on the timeline talking about something, mad
(01:29):
about something, outraged about something, and they just jump in
because that's what everybody else is talking about. Monkey see
monkey do Some folks just really wake up and wait
for social media to tell them what they care about,
to tell them what to think. Um, I think it
was yesterday. Yesterday was one of those days, maybe the
day before yesterday, But people were upset because managers at
an Atlanta i Kea store decided to honor black Americans
(01:52):
by doing something that black employees at the store thought
was racially insensitive. If you missed what we discussed last hour,
then let's go w g c L CBS forty report
police outrage at IKEA workers calling out sick and threatening
to walk off the job. It's all because of a
racially and sensitive menu put together to celebrate June team.
The special menu featured foods like right chicken and watermelon,
(02:16):
apparent historically used as a racist depiction of what African
Americans eat. They say the menu was going to be
served to customers and employees as a way to quote,
honor and preserve Black Americans in light of the Juneteenth holiday.
Employees outrage say thirty three people called out of work,
sparking this internal email response from the store manager on Saturday.
She said that um actrually apologize the menu came off
(02:40):
the subjective, but employees say the decision behind the creation
of the menu should have included voices of color. First
store manager told employees and CBS forty six that the
menu changed after the issue. He asked the store manager
to send us the new menu. The revised menu included
meat loaf, mashed potatoes, colored greens, and corn bread. Now,
the store managers re emphasized that they deeply apologe gies
and they realized they got the menu wrong. Now listen, guys,
(03:03):
full disclosure. I love chicken and I love watermelon. I
don't do fried chicken as much as I used to,
just because I don't do a lot of fried foods
at all. But we're gonna stop acting like the most
common type of poultry in the world. Chicken is not tasty. Okay,
everybody loves chicken. I learned the lesson a few weeks
ago when I went out on on the boat with
a few of the Caucasian homies and I'm listening to
my guy places the food order for the boat, and
he said he wanted chicken tenders from Public's, watermelon and
(03:25):
hummus from Trader Joe's. We got on that boat and
those white people was tanning chicken tenders and watermelon bites
uff And I told you, I don't eat fried food
like that. But the way they was vouring this fried chicken,
even though all my blackness said, don't you eat no
damning fried chicken in front of these white people. I
hate one. And let me be the first to tell
you that those fried chicken tenders from Public was so
damn good. I ate three, maybe four. The moral of
the story is fried chicken and watermelon. It's for everybody. Okay. Now,
(03:49):
I have never looked into either of these stereotypes, you know.
This morning was the first time I went to look. Okay,
I never have looked to see what the stereotype is
around fried chicken and watermelon. Okay. This is what they
said about watermelon. This is from an article written in
two thousand and fourteen for The Atlantic by William Black.
I haven't read the whole article, but William Black says
(04:10):
the stereotype that African Americans are excessively fond of watermelon
emerged for a specific historical reason and served a specific
political purpose. The trope came in full force when slaves
won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people
grew eight and sold water watermelons, and in doing so
made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Sovereign whites,
(04:32):
threatened by Black's newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit
a symbol of black people's perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and
unwanted public presence. Interested. I looked up chicken right. Claire
Smith's a professor at the University of Missouri, who studies
raising folklore, said chickens had long been a part of
sovereign diets, but they had a particular utility for slaves.
(04:54):
They were cheap, easy to feed, and a good source
of meat. But smith says came birth of a nation.
The Solid movie from nineteen fifteen that showed the founding
of the Ku Klux Klan. One scene in the movie
features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials
acting rowdy and crudely in the legislative hall. The message
to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote,
(05:14):
sound familiar. Some of the legislators have shown drinking, others
had their feet kicked up on their desk, and one
of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken. That image,
says Claire Smiths, really solidified the way white people thought
of black people and fried chicken. Smith said that, like watermelon,
that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions
(05:35):
of blacks, chicken was also a good vehicle for racism
because of the way people eat it. It's a food
you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty. Table
manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect,
are not in quote interesting very interesting. So basically the
problem isn't fried chicken and watermelon. The problem is Mannai's
(05:56):
too much. Goddamn Manna's okay. White people not all white people.
We draw a line in the sand between racist white
people and humans who happened to be white. But racist
white people back in the day trying to steal our
joy made the things that we loved, the things that
made us money, the things that nourished us radioactive. Now
let's be clear. Our kids getting donkey today. Why Because
(06:16):
I'm consistent when it comes to culturally cluelest people in
corporate America having blind spots like this. According to this article,
and Complex employees said the manager at our kid didn't
work with black employees to set up this menu. That's
the problem, full stop. That's why this happened. It's really
the most simplest concept to grass corporate America. Anytime you're
doing something cultural, bringing people from said culture, it's not
(06:37):
rocket science. I hate when I'm in meetings and people
say things like an angel and interviy'all been there. People
say things like, what are twenty year olds into nigga,
I don't know. I'm forty two. Bring some twenty year
olds in here. Got a bunch of men at the
table asking what do women think about such and such.
I'm like, I don't know, Go get some women. Same
thing we talked about earlier with Michael Jordan and Juve.
(06:59):
If you would have seen the consulted with some people
from the Trinidadian culture, he wouldn't have made that mistake.
It's fried chicken and watermelon offensive? Not to me? Is
it racially insensitive? On the June teenth, men, you presented
by a killa. Yeah, I see the point the employees
are making. Timing is everything. Context is everything, and this
was just poor timing and context. Okay, read the room
(07:20):
I kia in Atlanta. Read the room. Please give the
managers in our kia to sweep so down to the
Hamiltones place. You dogkey oh the day? Yeah, dog oh
the day. Ye are now a great black philosopher by
(07:47):
the name of David Curry Webber Chapelle. Chapelle. Once I
had this to say about people who have put a
negative stereotype on fried chicken and watermelon. It's because I
eat chicken and watermelon. They think that that's something wrong
with me. It's let's tell you something. If you don't
like chicken on watermelon, something's wrong with you. Mother. There's
something wrong with you. For are all these people that
(08:09):
don't like chicken and watermelon? I'm second hearing about how
bad it is. It is great. I'm waiting for Chicken
to approach me to do a commercial that guy will
about doing for free chicking. David Kyrie Webber Shot Donkey
to Day is brought to you by the law office
of Michael s Lamming Saft. Don't be a donkey. Dive
(08:30):
pound two fifty on yourself and say the bull. If
you've been hurting the construction accident, that's pound two five
old from your cell and say the bull.
Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three
years that donkey of the day is a new wife. Wow,
Donkey of to day for Wednesday, June goes to management
at an Atlanta i Kea store. Now, I know folks
believe that social media attended to overreact nowadays to a
lot of things. I don't even call it an overreaction
because we're walk around with tools that encourage us to
react period. Okay, that encourage us to have an opinion
(00:24):
on things. We have our smart phones, we have our laptops,
and we have platforms, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
whatever it is, wherever it is, we have these sites
where the soul commodity on these platforms is us, our voices.
So I often wonder how much do people really truly
care about the things they act like they care about
on social media? Are they just content? Do they act
(00:44):
like they care because they feel they are supposed to?
Are they simply have to because they have the platforms
to do it. I'll give you a clear example. Remember
I think it was David Allen Green, David Allen, Grid
Keen and every wins are senior Hall. One of them
said here on the breakfast club. If you wanted to
complain about the TV you show back in the day,
or if you want to complain about anything, you have
to write a letter. Okay, you have to mail it.
Facts it like, it took a lot more effort to
(01:06):
complain about something, to be outraged about something like you
had to put actual time, effort and energy into something
to complain about it. Nowadays you just whip about your phone.
So it's hard to tell if people really are upset.
Are they just need content for the day for whatever
platforms they are on. Not then mentioned just the group
think that happens in these situations. People see a large
amount of people on the timeline talking about something, mad
(01:29):
about something, outraged about something, and they just jump in
because that's what everybody else is talking about. Monkey see
monkey do Some folks just really wake up and wait
for social media to tell them what they care about,
to tell them what to think. Um, I think it
was yesterday. Yesterday was one of those days, maybe the
day before yesterday, But people were upset because managers at
an Atlanta i Kea store decided to honor black Americans
(01:52):
by doing something that black employees at the store thought
was racially insensitive. If you missed what we discussed last hour,
then let's go w g c L CBS forty report
police outrage at IKEA workers calling out sick and threatening
to walk off the job. It's all because of a
racially and sensitive menu put together to celebrate June team.
The special menu featured foods like right chicken and watermelon,
(02:16):
apparent historically used as a racist depiction of what African
Americans eat. They say the menu was going to be
served to customers and employees as a way to quote,
honor and preserve Black Americans in light of the Juneteenth holiday.
Employees outrage say thirty three people called out of work,
sparking this internal email response from the store manager on Saturday.
She said that um actrually apologize the menu came off
(02:40):
the subjective, but employees say the decision behind the creation
of the menu should have included voices of color. First
store manager told employees and CBS forty six that the
menu changed after the issue. He asked the store manager
to send us the new menu. The revised menu included
meat loaf, mashed potatoes, colored greens, and corn bread. Now,
the store managers re emphasized that they deeply apologe gies
and they realized they got the menu wrong. Now listen, guys,
(03:03):
full disclosure. I love chicken and I love watermelon. I
don't do fried chicken as much as I used to,
just because I don't do a lot of fried foods
at all. But we're gonna stop acting like the most
common type of poultry in the world. Chicken is not tasty. Okay,
everybody loves chicken. I learned the lesson a few weeks
ago when I went out on on the boat with
a few of the Caucasian homies and I'm listening to
my guy places the food order for the boat, and
he said he wanted chicken tenders from Public's, watermelon and
(03:25):
hummus from Trader Joe's. We got on that boat and
those white people was tanning chicken tenders and watermelon bites
uff And I told you, I don't eat fried food
like that. But the way they was vouring this fried chicken,
even though all my blackness said, don't you eat no
damning fried chicken in front of these white people. I
hate one. And let me be the first to tell
you that those fried chicken tenders from Public was so
damn good. I ate three, maybe four. The moral of
the story is fried chicken and watermelon. It's for everybody. Okay. Now,
(03:49):
I have never looked into either of these stereotypes, you know.
This morning was the first time I went to look. Okay,
I never have looked to see what the stereotype is
around fried chicken and watermelon. Okay. This is what they
said about watermelon. This is from an article written in
two thousand and fourteen for The Atlantic by William Black.
I haven't read the whole article, but William Black says
(04:10):
the stereotype that African Americans are excessively fond of watermelon
emerged for a specific historical reason and served a specific
political purpose. The trope came in full force when slaves
won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people
grew eight and sold water watermelons, and in doing so
made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Sovereign whites,
(04:32):
threatened by Black's newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit
a symbol of black people's perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and
unwanted public presence. Interested. I looked up chicken right. Claire
Smith's a professor at the University of Missouri, who studies
raising folklore, said chickens had long been a part of
sovereign diets, but they had a particular utility for slaves.
(04:54):
They were cheap, easy to feed, and a good source
of meat. But smith says came birth of a nation.
The Solid movie from nineteen fifteen that showed the founding
of the Ku Klux Klan. One scene in the movie
features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials
acting rowdy and crudely in the legislative hall. The message
to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote,
(05:14):
sound familiar. Some of the legislators have shown drinking, others
had their feet kicked up on their desk, and one
of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken. That image,
says Claire Smiths, really solidified the way white people thought
of black people and fried chicken. Smith said that, like watermelon,
that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions
(05:35):
of blacks, chicken was also a good vehicle for racism
because of the way people eat it. It's a food
you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty. Table
manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect,
are not in quote interesting very interesting. So basically the
problem isn't fried chicken and watermelon. The problem is Mannai's
(05:56):
too much. Goddamn Manna's okay. White people not all white people.
We draw a line in the sand between racist white
people and humans who happened to be white. But racist
white people back in the day trying to steal our
joy made the things that we loved, the things that
made us money, the things that nourished us radioactive. Now
let's be clear. Our kids getting donkey today. Why Because
(06:16):
I'm consistent when it comes to culturally cluelest people in
corporate America having blind spots like this. According to this article,
and Complex employees said the manager at our kid didn't
work with black employees to set up this menu. That's
the problem, full stop. That's why this happened. It's really
the most simplest concept to grass corporate America. Anytime you're
doing something cultural, bringing people from said culture, it's not
(06:37):
rocket science. I hate when I'm in meetings and people
say things like an angel and interviy'all been there. People
say things like, what are twenty year olds into nigga,
I don't know. I'm forty two. Bring some twenty year
olds in here. Got a bunch of men at the
table asking what do women think about such and such.
I'm like, I don't know, Go get some women. Same
thing we talked about earlier with Michael Jordan and Juve.
(06:59):
If you would have seen the consulted with some people
from the Trinidadian culture, he wouldn't have made that mistake.
It's fried chicken and watermelon offensive? Not to me? Is
it racially insensitive? On the June teenth, men, you presented
by a killa. Yeah, I see the point the employees
are making. Timing is everything. Context is everything, and this
was just poor timing and context. Okay, read the room
(07:20):
I kia in Atlanta. Read the room. Please give the
managers in our kia to sweep so down to the
Hamiltones place. You dogkey oh the day? Yeah, dog oh
the day. Ye are now a great black philosopher by
(07:47):
the name of David Curry Webber Chapelle. Chapelle. Once I
had this to say about people who have put a
negative stereotype on fried chicken and watermelon. It's because I
eat chicken and watermelon. They think that that's something wrong
with me. It's let's tell you something. If you don't
like chicken on watermelon, something's wrong with you. Mother. There's
something wrong with you. For are all these people that
(08:09):
don't like chicken and watermelon? I'm second hearing about how
bad it is. It is great. I'm waiting for Chicken
to approach me to do a commercial that guy will
about doing for free chicking. David Kyrie Webber Shot Donkey
to Day is brought to you by the law office
of Michael s Lamming Saft. Don't be a donkey. Dive
(08:30):
pound two fifty on yourself and say the bull. If
you've been hurting the construction accident, that's pound two five
old from your cell and say the bull.
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