Friday, February 5, 2010

NBC Cafeteria fried chicken debacle.

This is beyond stupid and once again just making black people look stupid and overly sensitive. I rather talk about the fact you can get that much food for $7.50. Mediaite as they are quick to do huffs and puffs about this serious racial incident.

So who at NBC thought it would be a good idea for the special today to be, among other things, fried chicken, “in honor of Black History Month”?

Because, spoiler alert – it wasn’t a good idea at all. And now NBCU employee Questlove is bringing it to the attention of his 1 million plus Twitter followers.

Questlove, the band leader and drummer for The Roots (the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) tweeted this picture from the NBC Commissary at 30 Rock, with the comment: “Hmm HR?”



The black chef who came up with the menu is upset.

One person who doesn't understand how offense could be taken: Chef Leslie Calhoun. It was her decision to select the menu items and create the sign. TheGrio caught up with her minutes after the tweet fiasco erupted and she seemed genuinely upset by the whole thing. Calhoun is an African-American and employee of Flick, a catering service that runs the NBC commissary. She said that for the last eight years she's been seeking approval from Flick management for a special Black History Month menu, and had finally been told that every Thursday for the month of February, she could serve whatever she chose.


1 comment:

  1. I wish our cafeteria here at work was doing fried chicken and hoppin john today, BHM or not.

    ReplyDelete