It’s Fried Chicken for Black History Month
Wow, if Fox News had done this, there would be marching in the streets.
NBC – in its News Division, at least — has been very sensitive to racial matters since Don Imus was dismissed by MSNBC for jokingly using the phrase “nappy-headed hoes” to describe the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Apparently, political sensitivity has not extended to the whole network.
Steve Krakauer at Mediaite reports that Questlove, the leader of the band for the late-night Jimmy Fallon show, complained to his more than 1 million followers on Twitter that NBC’s cafeteria at 30 Rock in New York offered fried chicken “in honor of Black History Month.”
Not quite sure why Ahmir Khalib Thompson, eerrr, QuestLove is so upset. He grew up on the road with his father’s band, Lee Andrews & the Hearts, one of the great 50′s doo-wop groups. Probably had a lot of fried chicken and black-eyed peas touring with the old man. I’m just saying…….
Best line from MoonBattery: “What, no watermelon?”
5 words-
from Blazing Saddles:
“Where the white women at?”
If the menu was really racist, it would have included a lotto ticket, a 44 in a paper bag and a pack of menthol smokes….
UPDATE: Papatodd’s legion of under-cover agents have reported that the Head Chef at the NBC Command-Center Commisary is a “Sista”.