DONKEY: Aramark Serves Chicken, Waffles & Watermelon At Nyack Middle School For Black History Month

Aramark Serves Chicken, Waffles & Watermelon At Nyack Middle School For Black History Month

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a miracle. There is no question that there
are problems in this country between police and community. Yes,
you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing
of a black man, now a new developments in the
deadly Spaws shooting rampage. If it was a really bad
day for him and this is what he did, and
so we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White

(00:24):
supremacist violence is it always has been the number one
threat to our sucide. But I'm also very proud that
my wife was white. The practice club bitches. All right,
please tell me why was I your Donkey of the Day? Wow?
Donkey to Day for Monday, February six goes to Arab Mark.
Arab Mark is a food service company that provides meals

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to the district of Nayak, New York and other places.
And that's what they did on the first day of
Black History Month, providing meals. Let me tell you something.
On Friday, I gave Donkey the Day to Turning Point
USA at Clemson for having an Affirmative action bake sale.
I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't
entertained by all the ways people stumbled their way through
honoring Black History Month. And the only reason I'm giving

(01:06):
Aaron Mark donkey to day is not because what they
did was so egregious. It's just that this is one
of those things that by now people should have figured out. Okay,
see you. On the Black History Month menu, Aaron Mark
had a Philly cheese steak, broccoli and fresh fruit. That's
what was on the schools lunch calendar. That's what people
thought they were gonna eat. But they decided, since it
was Black History Month, to change the menu at the

(01:26):
last minute. Would you like to know what they ordered
before I go to the news report, I just want
to ask the room, ray Je, what do you think
they ordered for the first day of Black History muff?
They ordered, we think of black people? What you think food?
Don't worry about it, ray Je. Just the fact that
you don't have an answer is good, right. Yeah, I

(01:47):
don't want to. I don't want I don't want to
have an answer for that. Behind the scenes, he said.
Behind the scenes, he said Roscoe's chicken and waffles and watermelon.
But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put them. You
said chicken and watermelon, and then I went, well, isn't
that and then you said, what ray J and I
went Roscolle's chicken and waffles and watermelons. Good, let's go

(02:08):
to CBS water very happy that he spoke Yeah, I
am A mother reassuring her daughter after a racially insensitive
lunch option was served at Nyake Middle School the first
day of Black History Month. Instead of Philly cheese, steak,
broccoli and fresh fruit, A Remark, the food service company

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that provides meals to the district served chicken and waffles
and watermelon. In a statement to a Remark apologized for
the insensitivity, saying, in part, while our menu was not
intended as a cultural meal, we acknowledged that the timing
was inappropriate and our team should have been more thoughtful
in its service. But this isn't the first time our

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mark found itself in hot water. Back in twenty eighteen,
another racially insensitive meal was served at New York University
during Black History Months. It included barbecued ribs, colored greens,
corn bread, kool aid, and watermelon flavored water. When called out,
the company apologized and workers were fired. What's wrong? Right? What? What? What?

(03:17):
What's wrong? What? Right? You laugh? You gotta see right
behind the scenes, He's like, what's wrong with you? Laughed
and you bade me laughing. Then I'm laughing later when
we back live, it was just like I mean, it's
it's a it's a it sounds tasty, it's making you hungry.
Where it was it was good. The kool aid was

(03:39):
a little rough, like the kool aid hit was rough
like with it, like it could have just been like
a strawberry, like you know, special drink thing. Aaron Mark
is making a rookie mistake at this point, Like we've
seen this one enough times to know that this was
gonna cause social media back class, right, I think to

(04:02):
add the watermelon in the chicken like the chicken waffle, Well,
we'll get to I want to talk about that. And
I actually want to talk about that because we've seen
this enough times to know that the woke tang clan
that exists in these schools was gonna have a problem
with this. But this is what your uncle Shaw is
here for. See. I've told y'all a million times on
this radio. We have to rethink this chicken and watermelon

(04:23):
stereotype because the only reason we embrace it as a
stereotype is because white men who are upset at our
progression made it a stereotype. I've told y'all this a
million times, so much so that I don't even have
to repeat myself. I can just flash back to one
of the last times I said it, and you won't
even know it's a flashback because I didn't have an
old job like DJ and be so my voice sounds
the same because it's okay, it's okay. Would you like

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this lesson again? Because it is black history. Well, so
it's the perfect time to teach our history. Chicken and
watermelons is a stereotype. But why is it. Listen to
your old uncle Shawl, explain why it is. Listen, this
is what they said about watermelon. This is from an
article written in twenty fourteen for The Atlantic by William Black.
William Black says the stereotype that African Americans are excessively

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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 watermelons, and in
doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom.
Sovereign whites threatened by black's newfound freedom, responded by making

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the fruit a symbol of black people's perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness,
and unwanted public presence. Listen 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.
They were cheap, easy to feed, and a good source

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of meat. But smith says came Birth of a Nation,
a silent 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 a legislative hall. The message
to the audience, these are the dangers of letting blacks vote,
sound familiar. Some of the legislators are shown drinking, others

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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
of blacks. Chicken was also a good vehicle for racism
because of the way people eat it. It's a food

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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 did you learn something? Ray Jisel
turn his mic on, did you learn something? Yeah, I
learned something. I learned something. It just it's just I

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don't know. It's just such a thin line between it
is not we let our pressure all. I meaning, like
I like watermelon as you should, like I love reasoning.
I like to be a symbol of freedom, for that's
what I'm saying. So where the chicken waffles and watermelon,
because I mean, that's a good combination of me a
fantastic man with syrup and on the watermelon that's disgusting. No,

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I'm just saying, like if it got that's a little
by got dripped on there when you like trying to
mix them all together. You got the chicken waffle and
the watermelon was in there too, and it was just
coming y'all. Let y'all a pressure. Shame y'all into thinking
that chicken and watermelon with a negative stereotype when the
reality of the situation is chicken, watermelon. As ray J
just said, it's just delicious. That's what I was trying
to say from the beginning, nothing more, nothing less. And

(07:42):
I don't understand how y'all can take the N word,
a word that was just the racial slur that racist
whites used and still use as a derogatory term, and
flip that into something positive. And some of y'all tell
the world, no, that's our word. It's hards. Y'all took
that negative ass word and made it a term of endearment.
But things that God actually created, like chickens and watermelons
that are delicious that we made money off, y'all. Let

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those racist Southern whites turn those things into a negative y'all.
Let those Southern whites turned down into a racist trope,
and y'all just accepted it. Y'all, literally, let someone shame
you for doing something good. You literally let someone shame
you for being an entrepreneur. You're supposed to look at
those Southern whites the same way we look at negroes
who clowned other negroes. For going to college, for reading,
for having a legit occupation. But with all of that said,

(08:24):
our Mark, come on, you have to know better, Okay,
until we can change the narrative back the chicken and
watermelon not being the stereotype, you got to know better.
I agree, I agree, And you know, chicken and watermelon
and you throwing the waffles too. I mean that comlar
nation is off the chain. Delicious. You would love to
have that at a party instead of asparagus and some

(08:45):
chicken and some lamb chops or something like that. Lamb
chops is good. Lamb chops, lamb chops. Please give Aaron
Mark the sweet chimes in the hambletons like, gee, I

(09:14):
just took it wrong. Let's open up the phone line.
All right, let's do it. Eight hundred five A five
one on five one. What's the question? The question? Uh?
Can we turn chicken and watermelon back to what it
originally was good food? Do we have to continue just
to make it a racist trope? Do we have to
continue to look at it as a stereotype. Do we

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have to continue to be upset when people put chicken
and watermelon on the menu, knowing that watermelon was a
symbol of freedom, knowing that we used to make money
off chicken, and our oppressors literally literally shamed us into
thinking that chicken and watermelon was a negative stereotype. And
reality of the situation is chicken and watermelon were symbols
of from fuss. Let's let's hut up the phone. Let's

(09:55):
have that that that conversation. Eight hundred five A five
one five one. Let me ask you a question before
we though. Okay, your daughter's school celebrates Black History moth
and they tell you for Friday they do in chicken,
waffles and watermelon. How do you feel I need I'm
gonna feel a little way just that let's talk about
because I need to know your intention. I know what,
I know what, I know the meaning behind chicken and watermelon.

(10:16):
But I want to know what these school's intention is.
Why do y'all think it's black servant and black people
like chicken? But if no, but what if you ask
that question? What if you ask the administration that question
and then they break down what I just broke down
about watermelon being a symbol of freedom, and what if
they give the kids that lesson with the meal? What
they say it is like chicken. That's a little different.
I need to know how you come to that conclusion.

(10:36):
That's ideology at the end of the day. To educate
that you use that word, I don't know if you
did it. Don't sound like you did well, it's educate.
It sounds like the way your headphones look is how
you seem like you that word Okay, ray Ja's head
But what I'm saying is to be knowledgeable on everything,
like if you broke down what it was there you
go while you're servant is boom. Then you give them

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the education need to understand it and love it and
so it doesn't go viral wrong, it goes viral right.
They're smart. But let's talk about it when we come back.
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