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IrishAyes

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28. Home run!

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:13 AM

Feb 2014

Although I personally salivate at the mere thought of fried chicken, watermelon, blackeyed peas, and cornbread - my mom was a transplanted southern belle - and I certainly love President Obama, in an imaginary world where he might come to dinner at my house, never in a thousand million years would any of those items be on the menu. Not that he might not actually like those foods himself, it would be a grievous offense on my part to serve them to him. Historical context. In this imaginary world, should he serve them to me at his home, no foul no harm. Again, historical context.

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I am a white woman. [View all] ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 OP

Looks like it's open to the public now: CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2014 #1

Edited. Thanks CP. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #15

It sucks how beauty is turned ugly FrodosPet Feb 2014 #2

Exactly, Frodo's.. Cha Feb 2014 #18

Get out of my way when they are serving collard greens Aerows Feb 2014 #21

What's that expression? You won the internet today. Bravo! IrishAyes Feb 2014 #27

Speaking as a son of the south... rrneck Feb 2014 #3

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that- snooper2 Feb 2014 #6

Snoop, you know I respect you and all rrneck Feb 2014 #9

Marinated in a beer bbq Cha Feb 2014 #19

But you will attempt to tell other people what they should not talk about. KittyWampus Feb 2014 #4

No, I am telling you that you should not tell someone what is offensive to them when it affects them ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #5

Quote from Adrien Miller who wrote "Soul Food" KittyWampus Feb 2014 #7

I am going to go with the guys I know. MrScorpio, M0rpheus, and others... ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #8

I'm not telling anyone how to feel. I am saying that Soul Food is well worthy of discussion. KittyWampus Feb 2014 #10

I think we are done here. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #12

Why would you choose today? M0rpheus Feb 2014 #29

I think there's room for both perspectives Major Nikon Feb 2014 #34

You have yet to admit the racist connection. kwassa Feb 2014 #11

I suppose the meal would have been fine IF intheflow Feb 2014 #22

Home run! IrishAyes Feb 2014 #28

I wish they would and perhaps they did, but it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't Major Nikon Feb 2014 #36

They definitely didn't at the time the food was served. intheflow Feb 2014 #43

Apparently being a white guy is an open invitation... Deep13 Feb 2014 #13

The "This is going to sound soooo racist, but..." ScreamingMeemie Feb 2014 #17

One time only I heard that preface and it was actually a legitimate point. Deep13 Feb 2014 #23

Lead by example MrScorpio Feb 2014 #14

I'm a white man... steve2470 Feb 2014 #16

Thank you. I am a white woman, too, born and raised in Minnesota in a family of Norwegians. scarletwoman Feb 2014 #20

It's too bad that they had to ruin what would otherwise be a delicious meal of tasty foods JAbuchan08 Feb 2014 #24

Too many people have an unerring instinct to ruin everything they touch. Stupid jerks. IrishAyes Feb 2014 #31

To wit: cyberswede Feb 2014 #25

How about the recent trend toward plantation weddings? Damn Paula Deen! IrishAyes Feb 2014 #26

There is a guy in my community who murielm99 Feb 2014 #30

There was some white supremacist in Riverside CA whose little boy shot daddy dead, IrishAyes Feb 2014 #32

Depends on how you are raised... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #33

Got it. murielm99 Feb 2014 #37

That's the way I spent my "Wonder Years".... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #38

As long as you don't tell this descendant of Native Americans he SHOULD be offended by a team name, cherokeeprogressive Feb 2014 #35

I can Crow about it. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #39

Sioux me for believing there are more important things to be concerned about. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2014 #41

I'm with you, ScreamingMeemie. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #40

The "other" scares people - TBF Feb 2014 #42