After pissing off just about all their Black employees, the store manager sent an email to apologize. “I truly apologize if the menu came off as subjective. It was created with the best of intentions by a few of our coworkers who believed they were representing their culture and tradition with these foods of celebration.”

The store issued a revised menu on the following day that removed the fried chicken and watermelon, but still had collard greens, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and meatloaf. “They just delayed the menu by a day, thinking that everybody who was upset stayed home on Juneteenth and wouldn’t notice on Sunday, which just added insult to injury,” one employee told WGCL.

Sadly, this isn’t even the first instance of white people doing the most over Juneteenth—just look at the San Jose Sharks and their ill advised Juneteenth artwork. The sad thing about both of those incidents is that all they needed to do was ask a Black person if this was a bad look and they could’ve easily avoided this. If you’re unwilling to do that, then do us a favor and celebrate Juneteenth by shutting the fuck up. Seriously. Just give us at least one day where we don’t have to deal with white headassery.

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