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In the summer of 2013, I had spent 8 Very Long, Very Hard years in graduate school and was a mere two weeks away from defending my Ph.D. My monogamous husband of 8.5 years went over to visit our closest couple friends' of 5 years house to drink and play video games while I worked on all of my dissertation shit.…

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I suppose someone at the school knew their intentions were not to celebrate cultural diversity during Black History Month. But I have to agree with you about food and culture. I'm going to have dim sum today in honor of the Chinese New Year. And I'll be eating matzoh ball soup and gefilte fish in honor of Jewish…

If you're defining racism as acts done with bigoted intent then I would agree that it's probably not racist, just misguided. But if you define racism as the acts that enable and reinforce the system of racial prejudice and bigotry then it is racist. We live in a racist culture which makes prejudice the baseline; to…

It's reasonable to make mistakes when it comes to racism, sexism, and so on. But it's also reasonable for other people to correct you when you make those mistakes and for you to apologize for making them. That's what the cafeteria did in this case. It was an well-meaning, honest mistake and people were right to point…

This is what I was thinking. If it were Mexican history month, it would probably be offensive NOT to include some Mexican food on the menu. Isn't this menu just a neat way to celebrate black American culture?

Well fried chicken originally came from Scotland and given enough scots moved down south it became a popular southern dish. Racism got it associated with blacks (along with watermelons, which have an interesting history if you look into why it became stereotyped as a black food).

Intention does have an effect but the effect is often on what kind of racism it would be, not on whether or not it is racist at all.

Involved in? Maybe. If the decision had been made solely by black people and it was labelled that way, such as "This menu chosen by the Black Students Association to represent Soul Food", that would make a difference, yes. But if it was just that a small minority of black people happened to be among the large number…

It's not an apt analogy because who is making the decisions for whom is completely opposite in each scenario.

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And yet this thread is full of information about why this is considered a racist stereotypical trope which you seem to have made no effort to learn from.…

Yup, this is how these schools have handled it too, with the bulletin board explanation. I can see what you're saying, which is why it bothers me that they're calling this racist. Not allowing Soul Food during Black History Month seems like a form of erasure to me. by jumping into "racist!" mode because a cultural…

I agree and no sane person could ever argue against more delicious food year round.

The nonracist way to do it is to have these foods served at more times of the year. When I lived in Alabama, practically everywhere had fried chicken and collard greens (damn near year round at the farmer's market, too!). As well as crowder peas and other options.

I actually think there is a sensitive and nonracist way to celebrate the cultural food traditions of African Americans. Maybe fried chicken is too loaded with negative racial stereotypes. However, there are several American cuisines created by or strongly influenced by traditions from the African American community.…

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