Honor Black History Month: Try ??? Chinese Food

[queerbychoice]

The following is a comment left in my journal just now by acidremix999 which deserves publicity. Visit her journal for more details later (she hasn't posted there about it yet, but she says she's going to).

something was brought to my attention that i thought you would be intrigued by..
i live in harrisburg, pa and a controversy has rose at one of the Giant grocery stores here...i was sitting in 2nd period today and this guy in my class who works there (Giant) told me that when he worked on sunday, they had a sign posted "GIANT HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH: FRIED CHICKEN ON SALE." he thought this was very racist (he's white) and i was furious. i was going to stop by there on my way to work and i was listening to the radio, apparently a black man called up and cussed and fussed about it and the one DJ didn't think anyone would have a reason to be upset. my god, as soon as i heard this, i stopped by Giant to see what it said, the sign had already been taken down and replaced with GIANT HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH: TRY ??? CHINESE FOOD! now...i dont think that was any better...i'm going to post all this in my journal.
wait, i'm listening to it now, the guy who complained about it is on the radio right now, he said when he walked n the Giant, the manager kinda "blew him off and said that he didn't understand why he was offended." the manger also gave him a number of some advertisment lady. tsk...this is what the world is coming to.

Comments

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord, that's terrible... *wince*
I'm trying to think of what a grocery store could put on sale that wouldn't be either offensive or a total non sequitur (you know, something like "GIANT HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH: FROOT LOOPS ON SALE")... hm... cheesy romance novels written by african-american authors?

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I would suggest that they tone down the blatant merchandising and not affiliate it with anything on sale. If they really want to honor Black History Month, they could print little pictures and biographical blurbs of famous Black Historical Figures on signs around their store or on their grocery bags . . . but not try to pretend that buying some product is a great way to honor anybody.

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

If they really want to honor Black History Month

Ok, I think I've found the mistake in your reasoning... *grin*
But yes, I agree. There is no reason for them to hold a sale to coincide with black history month...

[groovycat.livejournal.com]

that's horrible.. but. i hate black history month anyway (and women's month, march).. i have my reasons (http://www.epinions.com/content_914464900).

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

I like your reasons.

I also hate the way that, in elementary and middle school (and some high school) history textbooks, all of the accomplishments of upper-class white males are detailed in the first part of the chapter, and then at the end, they stick in a paragraph about the contributions of women and minority groups. Everyone knows that you never have to know what contributions the women and minority groups made, and so nobody ever remembers them. If they did something significant, put them in with the upper-class white males, dangit!

[groovycat.livejournal.com]

exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see anything wrong with this.

C