Posted on 02/28/2018 9:14:14 AM PST by TigerClaws
Would you hesitate to spend $12 for a work-day lunch? How about $30? One big factor affecting your answer to that question is how financially secure you are.
In Central City, a social experiment is under way through Sunday (March 4).
Walk up to a window manned by chef Tunde Wey at Roux Carré, 2000 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., order his Nigerian food and the experiment begins. If you are white, you will be asked to pay $30. If you are black, Latino or Asian, the bill will be $12.
Any diner can elect to pay $12 and be served. The point is not to charge people more for lunch based on their race, Wey said. The point, he said, is to make people experience, in a concrete situation, how income disparities -- which, in New Orleans, starkly run along racial lines -- affect daily decisions like what to pay for lunch, as well as life-altering opportunities and even personal health.
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$30 bucks for a plate full of bugs. No thanks.
No, thanks. I wouldn’t give him a cent.
Apparently there aren’t poor white people.
There are many privileges to being Black.
There are no privileges to being White.
No, but ignorant pricing could cause me to stay away altogether.
This “social experiment” is violating a whole fistful of Federal laws that I can think of.
This idiot is not aware that Asians have a higher average gross income than all other ethnicities.
Will whites who opt to pay only $12 get some extra DNA in their food?
I ain’t paying $12 for lunch at a fast casual concept where an entree is typically $6-8.
Stupid all around. $30 lunches are few and far between regardless of race.
Would you like a side order of condescending, self-righteous social justice with your burger, sir?
This stunt won’t change peoples views, it will cement them.
It is racist to claim whites have more and blacks do not.
I wouldn’t eat that box of chit if he gave it to me.
Nigerian food.
Thirty dollars.
Bigoted SJW business owner trying to prove some sort of point to me.
No thank you.
Gee, when non-liberal students do this at schools to illustrate inequities, the tolerant liberals, along with their fellow travelers in the faculty and administration, have conniption fits.
a left winger and his money are soon parted
Is this guy really from Nigeria?
Most Nigerian emigres I’ve met are thrilled and grateful to be here. They can’t understand why our local black population feels perpetually aggrieved.
Black people have been getting a discount all these years? I want reparations.
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