“We want to acknowledge some feedback received regarding our Juneteenth celebration,” Pezzuto said in his letter obtained by The North Carolina Beat. “Although our intent was to celebrate this nationally recognized day, some of you voiced your concerns regarding the associated food choices.”

In other words, we’re sorry you were offended.

  • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
    29·
    6 个月前

    I’m not seeing fried chicken on that article though, just barbecue (which could be chicken or not, but wouldn’t be fried). Judging by the company response, someone over there is definitely being an asshole, even if there are elements that are traditional.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
        322·
        6 个月前

        The fuck it is. Black ppl aren’t a monolith with a hive mind. We don’t all agree on everything. Also there’s a huge difference between a majority white controlled mega corporation handing out Friday chicken and watermelon on juneteenth vs a private local celebration doing it. Especially since it’s not the ONLY thing they serve

        Jesus Christ the fact this even has to be explained

        • ZeroCool@vger.socialEnglish
          101·
          6 个月前

          Jesus Christ the fact this even has to be explained

          I don’t think it needs to be explained to anyone approaching this conversation in good faith. However, the person you’re replying to is just making a poor attempt to dismiss racism and gaslight people.

            • ZeroCool@vger.socialEnglish
              8·
              6 个月前

              What are you going to say when everyone finds out it was a black person who was in charge of the food and drink choices?

              I have zero interest in entertaining your hypothetical situation. Find a different mark.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          111·
          6 个月前

          Who the hell doesn’t agree that fried chicken is awesome, though?

          Also, I bet you anything that if you did some digging into who it was at the company that was in charge of the concessions, it was a black person.

      • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        6 个月前

        I’m not trying to be an asshole.

        Maybe you’ll believe from a sistah

        This is manufactured outrage

        Mhmm. Not trying to be an asshole indeed.

        To the commenter below - No, you didn’t have to explain to this asshole anything. They know what they are doing and saying. Considering how easy it is to block people in lemmy, I’m taking advantage of that right now by blocking them.

          • ZeroCool@vger.socialEnglish
            171·
            6 个月前

            You didn’t bother to read either link , remain ignorant

            That’s rich considering that you clearly didn’t read your own first link. If you had you would’ve known it didn’t include fried chicken before it was pointed out by another user. But hey, let’s keep pretending you’re not just making a poor effort to dismiss and downplay blatant racism - and you definitely weren’t just including a random link and betting on people being too lazy to actually read it.

            Every year some dipshit racists at a company somewhere in the US decide to serve fried chicken and watermelon on Juneteenth because they think they’re super clever and subtle and the moment the backlash hits the news there are thousands of people like you waiting in the wings to gaslight comment sections across social media.