University of the Crescent and Islam Denounces Chicken Dinner on MLK Day

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

UCI Apologizes For Chicken And Waffle Dinner To Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr Day

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0127-uci-mlk-20110127,0,2259024.story?track=rss

What a bunch of pathetic, disgusting dhimmis. The insane leftists who run this supposed paragon of Californicate higher education aren't troubled by mobs of Taliban members beating up Jewish/white students, but have a stroke over someone deciding to serve a familiar, beloved food to a group of (so-called) students that should have really appreciated it.

Oy vey.

TBF

UC Irvine says fried chicken and waffle dinner on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was insensitive
The meal was served on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the first day of UC Irvine's three-day symposium in honor of the civil rights leader. Student organizations complained that the menu was insensitive.

By Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times
January 27, 2011

A last-minute decision to serve fried chicken and waffles at a campus dining hall in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. was a regrettable choice and lacked sensitivity, UC Irvine officials acknowledged Wednesday.

The meal was served at Pippin Commons on Jan. 17, the first day of UC Irvine's 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium. The theme of the three-day campus event was "Uniting Our Voice for Change." Past speakers have included Julian Bond, the late Dick Gregory and the late Yolanda King, the civil rights leader's daughter.

The menu and a sign in the dining hall reading "MLK Holiday Special: Chicken and Waffles" were pulled together at the last minute by a chef and other cafeteria staff members, said UC Irvine spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon.

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The culinary choices were made without any university oversight, Lawhon said.

UC Irvine student Ricardo Sparks, the 20-year-old co-chairman of the university's Black Student Union, lodged a formal complaint with the administration.

Sparks said the decision's insensitivity has outraged the student union and other ethnic student organizations on campus.

"It's just another in a long line of small events on our campus that aren't meant to be taken in a certain way, but are at least questionable in their cultural legitimacy," said John Murillo III, director of communications for the Black Student Union.

That the incident occurred during the symposium was especially disappointing, Murillo said.

"It takes all the radicalism and activism that we tried to do with the symposium and then [the cafeteria] serves chicken and waffles and takes away from all the stuff that we did," Murillo said.

Officials at UC Irvine agreed Wednesday that serving chicken and waffles on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not in "good taste."

Lawhon said the menu's intention was to offer comfort food for students in conjunction with the holiday.

"But it probably wasn't the most sensitive thing," she said.

Thomas Parham, vice chancellor of student affairs, tried unsuccessfully to schedule a meeting with Sparks and another student who had filed a complaint, Lawhon said. Sparks said he had waited to respond until he rallied other students to attend to meeting.

University officials said they are trying to set up a meeting with Sparks and other critics for next week.

The chef has not been disciplined, Lawhon said, and it was unclear if any action would be taken in the future.

Officials with Aramark Corp., which provides dining services for student housing, said they would conduct cultural sensitivity training for all managers and chefs.

Sparks and other students alleged that racially inappropriate incidents have been dealt with lightly in the past.

"I understand people have prejudice and ignorance," Sparks said. "But this is out in the community and nobody is saying anything about it."

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[muman613]

You know what seems insensitive to me...

My company is holding an ethnic Chinese New Year event next week where they are serving roast pig..... Luckily I will be taking that day off from work in order to take care of some important personal matters....


I was saying to my Hungarian boss the other day that only because of the high # of Chinese nationals working at my company do they observe this strange 'feast'. Can you imagine that they would ever recognize any other ethnicities special days? They only observe Christian holidays but maybe 50 of the workers are Israeli {and I assume of Jewish 'ethnicity'} ...

I just wish one day in my life I could work at a company which observes the Jewish holidays.... It was Tu B'shvat last week and nobody said a word...

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

What can I say? Some interesting events take place in your place of employment, and life in general!

[muman613]

What can I say? Some interesting events take place in your place of employment, and life in general!

Yes, indeed.... And what else can I say...

UCI is a depraved university. It has grown worse every year...

[angryChineseKahanist]

Mike, you should swing on over to the east coast particularly NYC and most of NJ. All the stores are closed Saturdays.
 

How 'bout a round of KFC for everyone?

[mord]

 U.C. Irvine is a very anti Israel university

[Rubystars]

This is a good example of what I was discussing with DBF in AIM yesterday. There's like an electric fence set up around white people and sometimes even other types of people that aren't PC, and if you move too far in the wrong direction, you get zapped! You're not allowed to even do something nice for people if it could in any way be seen as insensitive. Then comes the guilt trip for the supposed insensitivity. Blacks say: "How DARE you serve us food we like? That's terrible! You blue eyed devils!!! You monsters! You racists! We wanted skrimps! Next time serve skrimps!"  

So then if they serve shrimp, someone else will complain about that. "How DARE you serve shrimp!"  

Officials with Aramark Corp., which provides dining services for student housing, said they would conduct cultural sensitivity training for all managers and chefs.

ZZZZZzzzzzap!

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

Why waffles of all things?