Thread: Racially insensitive, or PC gone too far?

Originally Posted by Viva La Migra

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/01/13...lk-lunch-menu/

"The plan to serve a Southern-style meal in recognition of Martin Luther King Day was well intentioned but highly insensitive in light of certain hurtful cultural stereotypes still harbored in parts of our society," a message on the disctrict's Web site states.

So...I guess this means they won't serve corned beef and cabbage for St. Patricks day, tacos and refried beans on Cinco De Mayo, or spaghetti for Columbus Day! This is political correctness gone too far, IMHO.

Why not just call it Southern Style MENU because that's what it is!! This is really STUPID, where does it stop?

I can't imagine many city kids eating collard greens.

It will never stop. Just the way it is. collard greens and grits are way over rated anyway. Especially the way most prepare them. Guess this means liking fried chicken and chicken fried steak makes me a bigot. Gonna miss them along with biscuits and gravy. Guess hush puppies are bad too.

Speaking of Soul Food...I likes it..

When I was on board ship sailing around who knows what country in the Med...suddenly there was Chitlins every night for dinner (chow) or so it seemed....But I got so I really liked them (yes I knew what they were)..I'd melt some really strong cheese on them that the ship took on from the neighboring country we were near and made a nice tasty meal out of them..mmmm, mmmm,mmmm..Topped the meal off with a couple of Blood Oranges and washed it all down with bug juice.

Originally Posted by McDuck

I can't imagine many city kids eating collard greens.

You would love my Collard Greens GUARANTEED. Chicken stock, Onions, Bacon, smoked sasuage, Ham, and lots of LOVE!! Yummy, must serve them with corn bread.
Charleston style shrimp and grits is a killer, even Yanks love it! Grits is GOOD, every one of them.

Originally Posted by Viva La Migra

... or spaghetti for Columbus Day!

spaghetti for Columbus Day?

I thought WEDNESDAY is Spaghetti day.

(I must be showing my age...)

PC gone to far. I've seen this exact meal served, so many times, as a kid, at my parents, grand parents and all family reunions for over 50 years, except we always threw in some polk berry, which I rated as bad as collard greens. I didn't see wild onions on the menu nor any green beans with a big piece of fat back in it.

The funniest thing I can remember, about 10 years ago, we went to the family cemetary, and couldn't find one of our great aunts, who was helping laying flowers on the graves, not dead at the time. We back tracked and found her picking polk berry, she said it was the best patch she had seen for awhile. The funny thing was the polk was located on the other side of a barbed wire fence that kept the cows outta the cemetary and she had gotten down and shimmied under the barbed wire to get to the polk. She was 88 at the time.

She was a characrter and did it all, including going on an African Safari with Nick Nolte in the group. She died at 94, still smart as a whip and getting around w/o any assistance. May I be so lucky.

I'm offended.

Now HERE's an insensitive thing.

http://www.atom.com/fun_games/tiger_...xrs=eml_121709

(not PC, but fun. )

1st try 43
2nd try 28, 8 under par, take that!!!

1st try 31

2nd try 26

moral of the story: no matter how good you hit it, some ho still gonna blab.