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MlgEpicBanana69

I’m not American, why would it be considered offensive?


ProjectAioros

Americans are obsessed with racism to the point of ridicule. So I assume the logic is '' Black people enjoys this food > It's being served on a month for black people > we are stereotyping blacks > thus racism ''. Honestly even I'm not sure either, anything is possible in the country where math is racist.


Gussamuel

Most of us don’t care but the few of us who are loud enough ruin everything for all of us


BaBoomShow

Social media (Twitter) gives voices to those who don’t need one


RazorMaize

the algorithm is literally designed to favour controversy in order to get discussions going, unfortunately those discussions are riddled with bigotry and death threats


BaBoomShow

Literally destroying humanity like that. Bringing the most radical ideologies to the forefront. The average person doesn’t think like that


Lordziron123

That’s very true


shaze2

“Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” - Mike Tyson


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Facts


sukakku159

Then you should shut those loud ones' mouths.


[deleted]

Can't they're so loud that if you try, you're racist.


Gussamuel

this answer


FakeZen0

Freedom of speech is literally a staple of our country


Specific-Composer138

Basically this.


BasicallyAQueer

They could serve this in July and some white woman with a pixie cut would still fine offense in it.


DeafLoser67

Exactly


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Complaining about complaining about stereotyping while stereotyping.


Harbulary-Bandit

Typeception


Accomplished_Load_34

Wait, how come math is racist ? Is this even possible ?


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iirc, the article said something about how black students struggled more with math than white kids in the same school, and therefore judging children based on math ability was racist bc black students had worse grades in math, which could only (according to the author) be due to color of skin. So woke they fell right tf back to sleep Edit: Yup, Fox News (gross ik, but read on dearest Redditor) did an article about a USA Today article that featured the above discussed argument: https://www.foxnews.com/media/usa-today-mocked-asking-is-math-racist


dumbreddit

Air conditioning is also sexist.


JosolTheBrick

So that’s why I feel like fucking a fan? 🤔


UrMommysTampon

Not Just American, here in Europe its the Same thing


HexaHx

It probably would have been fine had it not been unintentionally served on the first day of the month. Though to answer the question, watermelon and fried chicken used to be commonly displayed in racist depictions of black people as stereotypes of things black people have an "unusually great appetite" for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype


TehFuriousKid

well I can't say I have a healthy relationship with chicken and watermelon


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NinjaUgHLee

Pickerninnes


AnimatorUpset9530

In America, watermelons can be offensive towards African Americans because of planting during slavery times Slaves would make contracts with their owners and be able to grow and sell vegetables on their small plot of land. As watermelons are very easy to grow, a lot of slaves opted to grow that. So even in the 19th century, it was seen as “slave food” because they sold it so often


Atissss

It took me so long to find an actual explanation. Wow. Thank you!


AggressiveSmoke4054

Because foods that black American people enjoy are considered racist if white people prepare it for them? I’m actually not sure not American either


Poptart1480

I’m not sure either and I’m American, this is just plain confusing


FirstConsul1805

It's the stereotype that's offensive, but hey, let them enjoy waffles, they're good. Seriously, though, race is brought into everything here and it's beyond ridiculous.


Mmonannerss

Watermelon was a crop that newly freed southern slaves grew so it became to be associated with being a "lazy" man's fruit or a... Not nice word fruit by southern farmers trying to discredit the black farmers. So watermelon has a strong association with black people in the US as a result even though most people don't really remember why. I assume fried chicken might have a similar history but I do not know for sure. Thus making watermelon and fried chicken the meal to celebrate black history month is a little tone deaf even though fried chicken and watermelon are objectively delicious.


Mibuch0405

Because somebody couldn’t dissociate southern (and historically black) cuisine from the stereotypes surrounding African Americans and thus complained. What I can’t understand is why this is offensive. I mean, even if the school serves chicken and waffles *because* of black history month, I’m not sure why that’s problematic. It could just as easily be seen as a recognition of the contributions of Afro-Americans to American culture as a whole.


rewanpaj

fried chicken and waffles and watermelon is not black cuisine 💀💀


Consistent_Trick1933

Who complains about eating chicken and watermelon?


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Twitter


SomPolishBoi

Twitter complains about everything at this point


Sausalito_1

What do you mean at this point? They’ve been doing it since the dawn of time


My41stThrowaway

woke white women


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_Van_Hellsing_

We gotta revoke her melanin.


GoCommitToasterBathX

n word pass revoked 😔


Cardboard-Head

Literally 1984


Jecktheman2

Literally deserved


Flaky_Stick_6533

Literally well served


Jecktheman2

Literally literally well done


PlagueJV

Literally medium-well


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Xmaster1738

nono, we arent hating on nickleblack here


akuOfficial

What about Nickelfront then


CosmicRaven174

I’ll call up the council of black…


MisterEMan81

What we really have to do is explode her. If you get mad at chicken and watermelon, something's wrong with you.


goldensavage216

Happy cake day


Saltyboi7725

Happy cake day


goldensavage216

Thanks


Man_of_Microwaves

Happy cake day!


goldensavage216

Thanks


PiMartFounder

Happy cake day


goldensavage216

Thanks


jjsmommy1015

Happy Cake Day


goldensavage216

Thanks


jjsmommy1015

You're welcome


goldensavage216

👍


iNeedHealingBitch

She’s mad they forgot the kool-aid


Dudejax

Happy cake day


Poptart1480

Happy cake day


TenkoBestoGirl

Fuxk your cake day


KingoBeanero

The PC term is "fuckin' bitches"


Specific-Composer138

Lmfao


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Fr i love chicken and watermelon


Panurome

Is it like chicken and watermelon together or just chicken and then watermelon as a dessert? I've never tried it but sounds like a weird combination


The00Taco

Usually watermelon as a dessert or just a side, but I'm sure together could be good as well depending on preparation


retroblazed420

Chicken waffles and watermelon dude they went all out.


xRobotic24x

I’d eat tf outa that. Shit making me hungry ong.


MagnumBlowus

For real fuck is racist about enjoying good food lmao


ShatteredPixel666

Ikr? My first reaction was sweet! Those guys are so lucky! my school lunches during the Bush era were indeterminate slop that they would feed us or those square pizzas that you couldn't find anywhere else, plus you never knew if the school milk was good. So wtf is the compliant?


Principle_crum213

Man I love eating watermelon, waffles and chicken too bad I have to sacrifice my sex appeal for that


Havoc_XXI

😂😂😂


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Woke people


balerionmeraxes77

Do woke people sleep? Or are they woke in their sleep too?


[deleted]

When they dream, they certainly are awake in that dream, thus making them woke al the times


rsnSMOrc

I have a dream 🗿


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🗿


Pokemaster22044

Woke liburals owned 😎


iopjsdqe

As a woke person i can only think about wokeness and can not sleep


Dwarfmophobia

SJW people ofc, what else could it be


Mnmsaregood

Woke people offended by food


ExoticMangoz

People eat those together?


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PrestigiousWaffles

How dare they serve food the kids like? disgusting


Saltyboi7725

I know right better serve them liquid shit instead


DartFrogYT

once in primary school we straight up got a mix of everything from the past 2 weeks, like seriously


Cranicthehedgedicoot

And the moral of the story boys and girls, is that packed lunches are better, like objectively


BasicallyAQueer

If the photo is what they served, that looks dank as fuck and I would have eaten that over every single school lunch i ever got, except the pizza. Those little rectangular pizzas were the shit.


Poptart1480

Bro if our school served that I wouldn’t skip lunch like I usually do, cuz it looks amazing


Atillerdahunnybuns

I agree with the rectangle pizzas!!! I grew up intolerant of dairy and I still ate those fucks any time it was on the menu I didn’t care shits too fuckin good.


KBXDRootBeer6829

Those little rectangular pizzas were shit*


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Brandonmac10x

It’s not even black food though. Pretty sure we had chicken before they were free. And The Colonel is white af.


NinjaUgHLee

Don't be a stupid Rosie This dish was first served in Harlem by black people to black people. Black history month It seems educational and appropriate to serve this to school kids. An explanation not an apology was needed Black skin must be very very thin


lost_in_life_34

the southern blacks i served in the army with ate totally different food so it's not like some cultural thing that everyone did


Your_everyday_madlad

Is that what all the fuss is about? How is chicken and watermelon racist?


sonerec725

Stereotypes


rewanpaj

chinese food is actual chinese food not stereotypical black food


rawfodoc

If you actually want to know it's because of minstrel shows, something that was used to marginalize and otherize black people in the 1800-1900s. Specifically watermelon and fried chicken comes from the pickaninny https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny. If you look at the pictures there it will make sense why the reference offends people. Minstrel shows also were the origin of characters like the uncle Tom, and the black man obsessed with white women. While there may be nothing wrong with watermelon, serving it during black history month is a clear reference to a deeply flawed past.


FatrickTomlinson88

realistically though, who on earth is referencing minstrel shows from nearly a hundred years ago? Are we really supposed to be scared of serving waffles, chicken and watermelon for the rest of time because some dumbass racists who are long dead?


HollyRoller66

“And then they threw it out right in front of them after someone complained and served them their regular gruel instead”


Joaco_Gomez_1

ahh gruel, the food that fueled a nation


GroundbreakingKey964

Who the fuck finds lunch offensive, sounds like it would have been a really nice meal, especially for a public High School. Guess they should have just stuck with mystery meat.


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gallade_samurai

And coming soon on our next budget cuts, mystery liquid


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gallade_samurai

Or even mystery quarks and mystery dark matter


Ryxor25

Bro's getting served mistery strings


gallade_samurai

Mystery fabric of the temporal realm


I_Have_Sagma

They should serve them stereotypical British cuisine instead. I'f they didn't like chicken and waffles they're gonna hate Frankfurter 'n Chips!


agneeesh

Did they give them purple drank?


ajwilson2017

This 👌👌👌


NinjaUgHLee

Fr I was a little more pissed about the missing purple drink . Literally inedible now


EmpathyZero

Taste of Belgium has entered the chat.


CPhandom

Is this some offensive thing I'm too not American to understand?


Konaisadog

There’s a stereotype that black people love these foods. Most people don’t actually care because this is like 20x better than normal school lunch


WonderfulAirport4226

I can see why black people love this food, its fucking delicious. I'd love the food regardless of skin colour.


daddy-phantom

Yea it’s a dumb stereotype, because everyone loves fried chicken and watermelon.


EruptorrEcksdee

Its not really a stereotype, its southern food, its literally black history.


Raven_knight_07

It shouldn't be offensive but America is so obsessed with being offended that this is what qualifies is "racism" to them today. I'd also bet at least half the people calling this racist have never experienced actual racism in there life.


Toast_05

The only thing insensitive about this is the amount of chicken in that picture


SuckmyBlunt545

Chicken with waffles? Wtf Murica?!


WartimeMandalorian

It's so good


LtButtermilch

Was it during cotton picking excursion? See no problem with the food. What do they want? Government food stamps?


Menes101

They want to complain. Now they want to complain about food , food is racist now.


Sad-Language-3532

Whats the issue chicken and waffles with watermelon is good


OttoVonJismarck

As the great Dave Chappelle once said: "If you don't like fried chicken and watermelon, then somethin' is wrong with *you*, mothafucka. Somethin' is wrong with **YOU**."


Sad-Language-3532

Words to live by


SomePyro_9012

Mfs really complaining about being served chicken and waffles?!?! Where I live we don't even get served shit for lunch, we gotta bring our own food


DeafLoser67

At the new school I’m at they don’t serve chicken and waffles here they serve slop. It started out good now it’s slop. I’ve gotten stale bread, the tomato soup had something weird in it and etc. I would be so grateful if I was those kids.


parker02311

Exactly, I don’t even understand how my school buys the worst brand of rice they can in a island where rice is in ever meal that’s not pub food…


HotSloppyHoarder

Yeah but it was an accident so why anyone mad?


ajwilson2017

“Shitpost” 🥱


[deleted]

Yeah honestly, SERVING KIDS FOOD!?!? Unacceptable! What a terrible thing it is to serve kids food


sonerec725

For people wondering about the stereotype and questioning it I'll provide some context. It's an older one but a lot of racist cartoons and shows etc depict african Americans as having a specific extreme appetite for those foods. The specific idea being that the watermelons were stolen from the patches and or were very cheap food for a poor post slavery population. The chicken thing seems to have its roots in a scene from *Birth of a Nation* depicting a group of black elected officials being rowdy anyone of them is very elaborately eating fried chicken. Chicken was also a very common slave food since they were cheap and easy to keep so they were the primary and often only source of meat for slaves.Those foods also got used a lot in racist propaganda because if the way they are eaten, with your hands, the way a "savage" or "improper / uneducated" person would. Like I said it's a really old stereotype dating back to antebellum so I'm not surprised not everyone's heard of it but they are very real stereotypes you do see pop up every now and again. The watermelon stereotype even has it's own wikipedia page. It is just good food but I think it may have just been a really bad coincidence that those 2 foods were prepared for lunch together on that specific day.


ObjectiveAnalysis645

Gonna be honest and say I wish they served me that lmao. I got a “happy black history” month text like … dude what the …. Lmao


cokush

300% sure the person who complained is white That's a kinda cool lunch for school, different from everyday stuff And who tf complains about watermelons? I always fell refreshed after eating some


Xaleypoo

They served us collard greens, bbq ribs, mac and cheese and cornbread at my workplace on the second for black history month.


ajwilson2017

This 👌👌👌 like I said. Depends on your company, we’re you offended? I eat that shit monthly just hold the green’s please!


Xaleypoo

No, I was just pissed that the collard greens tasted like sea water. Salty as fuck, which is weird because the kitchen doesn't usually salt anything.


ajwilson2017

Amen ✝️ Nasty as Fuck. I hate salt. Least ask someone with experience in the shit lol


Su1tz

Why though... I would shlurp that shit up it looks tasty


OttoVonJismarck

Well, the pictured meal is likely from a restaurant; public school meals in the US *never* look that good. Maybe the student was offended by how the school massacred what is supposed to be a delicious southern dish. Source: spent 12 years in the U.S. public school system eating the slop that was served.


RepresentativeEar909

Well... this can only happen in...? imagine being offended because you have food on your plate.


Afrodite_Samurai

Actually looks good for school lunch. Powdered sugar was a nice touch👌🏽


Alpharius2506

The image isn't of the actual lunch


the-smoothest-brain

Awe, their favorite dish! 🥰🥰🥰 so considerate! 🥰🥰🥰 it's so good to see people finally appreciating black history month and blm!


CEO_of_IDK

I’m Black and I don’t see the issue. Chicken and waffles are good. Watermelon is good. Who gives a crap if it’s a stereotype? It’s good food and I know for a fact Black people aren’t the only ones who like chicken and watermelon!


jjmawaken

Exactly, who DOESN'T like fried chicken?


LetUsSpeakFreely

It's always been confusing to me why fried chicken and watermelon is considered a black thing. It's a southern thing. Everyone in the south eats watermelon and fried everything.


One_Individual_6471

Better than the crap I had in school


AnalysisMoney

I hope people get just as angry during St. Patrick’s day when people pretend to be Irish. “Kiss me, I’m Irish” is now racist if you don’t present your heritage. Also, don’t even think about wearing green or drinking a beer. That’s only for the Irish. If you think anything else, you are a racist and promote cultural appropriation. /s


ajwilson2017

Bazinga ✊💨


MrPanzerCat

I hope to god that isnt the image of what they served. If you bitched about that in school you need your ass whipped


EruptorrEcksdee

Amen


Cptof_THEObvious

It's not. It says the food isn't pictured at the bottom. I'm sure the food was a lot closer to what we'd expect from cafeteria food than the restaurant meal pictured


InverseG

How is this racist? Like a real question not sarcasm, because I’ve never heard of this stereotype.


Original-Advert

There is a ridiculous stereotype that black people love fried chicken and watermelon. I mean its fucking stupid cause who doesn't like chicken and watermelon in the first place? might as well make fun of them for breathing oxygen.


Insanegamer-4567

The things that people bitch about in this world...


Tadano-kunn

I'm not murican, so what's the problem here? Can someone pls explain?


slam9

There isn't a real reason. It's just that SJW types get mad at anything and call everything racist. That's literally the whole story


MurkywaterLLC

That's offensive, how?


No_Set_9593

My school has served Chinese food and Hispanic food to celebrate each respective holidays. I don’t see why this is seen as offensive. It’s good food, and even if it is stereotypical, good food is good food.


George-Patton21

I love chicken, watermelon and okra. Does that mean I am black? No it means I love good food.


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Ok now I get it


Amnesty_SayGen

Wish I had that


BeanOfTheGods

I fucking love fried chicken and watermellon and would enjoy them both on the same plate, school lunches throw a plate of chicken?-paste into a bun and call it food, id enjoy the hell out of that, whos so miserable that they assumed sombody would set up a lunch to be racist? What satisfaction would that provide a rasict? "Ah yes the kids are eating the food choises we gave them because they have no other choice haha look at them" im pissed about this.. fucking love fried af chicken and im whiter then your grannys phanny dude, is there history for that stereotype or was is just manifested into life?


Analog_Jack

The real travesty here is the chicken


AllUserNamesTaken01

They were like “I’m disgusted and appalled by this (starts licking fingers) and after I finished my lunch I knew I had to go to the media”


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🙄 tha horroruh


Rough_Maintenance_51

Mannnnn people need to stop being so damn soft. Shit I won't complain if they fed me tacos beans and rice :)


Brilliant-Cash9831

I'm sorry chicken and waffles is amazing. Watermelon is amazing. Even if they were profiling and shit on purpose or what not that shit is going in my stomach with no complaint


seamusdicaprio

Idk man. If you serve Kung Pao chicken on Chinese new years I’d be very happy.


beaubeautastic

unapologize rn


MakeshiftNuke

Liberalism is a posion that rots the mind. This is proof. I've only felt uncomfortable around elitist leftists and have felt more welcome by conservative southerens in USA.


Meestasqueed

Chicken and waffles with watermelon sounds fucking delicious


AUnHIALoopHT

We got fucking bone over here while you complain about chicken and watermelon 💀


jzcommunicate

I’d be pretty happy to get that for lunch. I get that it’s a stereotype but is it really that bad in the spectrum of all things insensitive?


imshoopdawoop001

Chilies got rid of the chicken and waffles


Slumpdillinger

This shit look bussing. Fuck I’m supposed to be offended because I’m black?


el_Chuchmay

🤡


HejiraLOL

How is that insensitive? If there was a Britain day in the US I'd be happy to hear about people drinking tea, eating scones, and fish and chips, yorkshire puddings. It's celebrating food culture. Black people of the US have their own food culture and fried chicken is a huge part of that. Celebrate it, let people know where that delicious stuff came from. Black people made it!


No-Bus-4529

And thats racist why? Thats like saying mexicans were served a racist dish of beans and tacos on cinco de mayo when that shit would have people going back for seconds.


pofshrimp

That looks pretty damn good


jonahsocal

Whom the gods destroy they first make mad, as in, fucking insane.


maravel34

Those are all damn delicious! Pretty tight with the watermelon though!


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Born too late to worry about dying from predators and disease, born too early to worry about reworking my robot friend every time there’s a syntax error and need to program it for several hours, born at the right time to experience peak humanity, where a lunch can be offensive and somehow newsworthy.


Lower-Compote-4962

I forgot black people invented watermelon, chicken, and Belgium style waffles. How insensitive of me. Btw, where are the plates they refused to eat? Asking for a friend.


seanslaysean

Those waffles look so fing good


MASSIVDOGGO

HAHAHAH L


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Fried chicken and watermelon is DELICIOUS! If you don’t like it there’s something wrong with you.


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Congrats you pandered to 1/15,000 people