Obama has his own line of Fried Chicken now.....

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Tyrannical said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Tyrannical said:

Grocery stores have St. Patrick's day sales on corn beef, no one complains.
Grocery stores have a MLK day fried chicken sale, there'd be a riot.

One is a celebration of culture.

One is an insult.

You already know which is which.

Why does this bother you?

Tell me, which is which?

Corn Beef is not a traditional Irish food. Poor Irish immigrants in the US were introduced to it by Jews. It's a Jewish food, not Irish.

Corn beef is not a traditional Irish food, but I hope you're not implying that fried chicken is a traditional African food.

However, corn beef has become a traditional Irish-American food.  It doesn't matter who introduced it to them.  (We call spaghetti Italian even though it came from China.)  They adopted it, they serve it with their own traditional Irish cabbage, and on one day a year everybody wears green, eats corn beef and cabbage, and drinks Guinness.  Do you know of any Irish-Americans that are insulted by St. Patrick's Day?  It's a fun party holiday.

On the other hand, if African-Americans don't want a holiday where we all dress black and eat KFC, what's the problem with that?  MLK Day is a celebration of a civil rights activist, and it has no celebratory meal.  It's not a fun party holiday.

So far it sounds like your issue is that African-Americans aren't "good sports" like Irish-Americans are.

 

But you didn't answer my question.  Why does it bother you that one ethnicity-food relation is a celebration and the other is an insult?  And why do you care?  Is it okay for people to be different, and for them to have different feelings?