Posted on 02/06/2002 5:09:23 PM PST by greydog
Ananova
Supermarket apologises for fried chicken slur
A Pennsylvania supermarket has apologised for advertising a sale on fried chicken in honour of Black History Month. Giant Food Stores customer Lance Sellers brought the advert to the attention of the manager of the store in Union Deposit east of Harrisburg.
Paula Diane Harris, president of the Greater Harrisburg Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, said the sign reinforces racist stereotypes.
“Not all African-Americans eat fried chicken, greens and chitlins. We like salad, roast beef, low-fat chicken, just like everybody else,” she said.
The sign read: “In honor of Black History Month, we at Giant are offering a special savings on fried chicken.” “I showed it to a few of the other customers ... and they all were stunned,” Mr Sellers said. “When I approached the store manager about the problem he had the nerve to ask me why it offended me so much.”
Giant Food Stores has apologised and said the sign was not meant to be offensive.
“It did happen. It was at that one store only,” said Denny Hopkins, Giant’s vice president of advertising. “We had a customer bring the sign to us and complain and we immediately took it down.”
Giant is sponsoring several programs for Black History Month, including having jazz bands and soul food samples at its Kline Village Plaza and Union Deposit stores, Mr Hopkins said.
Mr Sellers said the sign wouldn’t keep him from shopping at the store. “We laugh about it,” he said. “How could they put something like that out there?”
Story filed: 13:01 Wednesday 6th February 2002
And, of course, they don't know how to pronounce or spell chitterlings.
Thats one of the funniest things I've EVER read...
Apparently so.
Has anyone seen the Gateway commercial featuring the Amish in a barn trying to assemble a computer?
They are the ones who should be whining about racism , politically correct and profiling .
LOL
Thanks for the post............John
When I was young I knew an old Black gentleman who enjoyed barbecued raccoon.
I was given the opportunity to sample it on more than one occasion, but I had some nagging concerns about rabies, and passed every time.
The only clothes he had were old coveralls and straw hats... And he had maybe a half dozen teeth in his head... And he ate barbecued raccoons with indecent relish...
He was a walking, talking 'stereotype' and he knew it.
But he had sense of humor enough not to be bothered by it. Hell, he'd laugh about it, he reveled in it.
And that made all the difference between people remembering him fondly, as I do, and people spitting on the ground that trash like Paula Diane Harris walks on, as I happily would if the opportunity presented itself.
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