DPS menu for MLK birthday hard for some to digest

Denver Post ^ | 1/13/10 | Jeremy P. Meyer

[WKB]

And the beat goes on!!!!!

[Altura Ct.]

Same S different day...

[Petronski]

But collard greens? Ick. Feh.

You should try them fried in bacon and onions.

I love that dish, though I usually leave out the collard greens.

[ronniesgal]

fillet o’ fish and strawberry shakes (or strawberry soda)

[Shimmer1]

Hate to tell the “progressive” left, but white people like food too!

[Shimmer1]

Hate to tell the “progressive” left, but white people like food too!

[T-Bird45]

Does that give me a stake in Reparations?

Absolutely -- the line forms right behind me...LOL!

[Shimmer1]

posted it twice and STILL couldn't get it right! White people like THAT food too!

If at first you don't fricassee, fry, fry again.

[dbrew2u]

Ask the Blacks in Haiti if they would be offended by being offered some Chicken & Greens ?

[Grizzled Bear]

They should declare a “Robert Burns” day and feed the little tykes Haggis. That’ll show em!

[Brookhaven]

Just show what a bunch of dopes the people in Colo. are.

Having grown up in GA, I guran-damn-tee that everyone (black, white, red) grew up eating fried chicken and collard greens. It isn’t a race thing, it’s a southern thing.

It’s a classic southern meal. EVERYONE in the south eats it.

Clam chowder = New England.
Fried Chicken & collards = South.

[La Lydia]

One person with a big, ol’ chip on her shoulder complains and they apologized? What a bunch of weenies. The meal sounds scrumptious. If this is the worse manifestation of racism in Denver, they should count their lucky stars.

[jackibutterfly]

"Just show what a bunch of dopes the people in Colo. are."

Hey! Just a gol-darned minute there - I live in Colo.!!! I'll have you know there are dopes everywhere, even where YOU live. Humph! So there! I know, I know, THOSE people are dopes, and I agree! :-)

[Verginius Rufus]

King Co., Washington, was originally named for William Rufus King, Franklin Pierce's Vice President (who died after serving only a month and a half of his term), but a while back the local officials decided it should be regarded as being named for Martin Luther King, Jr.

I guess the city government in Washington, DC, could announce that their city honors Booker T. Washington instead of George Washington--except that Booker T. isn't considered enough of a militant.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Dey shoulda serve pok chops, chitterlins and poke sallet!

An rice an beans wit cone bred!

Dog gone! I made myself hungry!

[NEMDF]

I love fried chicken and watermelon, too. I would often buy too much watermelon for just my daughter and myself. A family of 6 lived next door. I would have offered to share with them. One problem... They would have been offended due to racial differences.

[manic4organic]

I love collards, fried chicken, all that stuff. And black people do love it, too. Not sure if MLK liked it.

[bk1000]

“Washington, DC, could announce that their city honors Booker T. Washington instead of George Washington—”

Wasn’t Booker T’s ‘Washington’ mearly a slave name taken after George Washington? It gets redundant. I guess King Co., Washington could even be considered a two-fer! I’d better hush...

[SatinDoll]

Yes! We love St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage so much we have it about once a month!

[Verginius Rufus]

He was born Booker Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver). He chose the name Washington as a free person after the war (he was born in 1856 so was only 8 or 9 when slavery ended).

A lot of former slaves chose new surnames after becoming free--either they didn't have a surname or didn't like the one they had. In the oral histories of ex-slaves collected during the New Deal, there was one man who chose the surname Davis because he heard people talking about Jefferson Davis all the time so he figured that Davis was a good name. At least that is what he said in the 1930s. John Hope Franklin's ancestor ran away during the war and took a new surname.