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Excuse me, would you like some chicken?

Excuse me, would you like some fried chicken with that?

*I sure hope you won’t judge me too harshly. But I downright howled when I first saw this it was so funny.

Carondelet High School for Girls in Concord, California is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: the Black History Month lunch menu they recently announced.

OK, allow me to set up a fictionalize account of how this may have went down:

The school administrators have called a meeting to discuss how they will recognize Black History Month. When out of the blue a high-pitched voice exclaims, “I know, why don’t we have the cafeteria serve fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon!”

To which all in attendance reply in unison: “That’s a great idea!”

Meeting adjourned!

Uh oh.

Now, either these folks are absolutely clueless when it comes to cultural sensibilities or they just got lazy and threw together the first thing that came to mind after the word Black.

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SOURCE: EURweb.com

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Black History School Menu of Watermelon and Chicken Upsetting Many  was originally published on wzakcleveland.com