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Honoring Black History month by emphasizing stereotypes is pretty tone deaf.
Shit man, I will fuck up some chicken, waffles and watermelon.  Just can't imagine someone thought that was a good idea for the first day of black history.
What’s wrong with chicken and waffles? >

The problem is when someone responds to Black History Month by pushing stereotypes.
Outside of context, nothing would be wrong. >

is chicken and waffles a stereotype?
I'm honestly asking. I've never heard of that. >

It had way less to do with Chicken and Waffles being served, and them serving it with watermelon.
They could have served it with any other fruit and it would be a non-issue. >

Chicken waffles and watermelon are all delicious. As a black person this seems kind of a hyperbolic complaint.
I get the thought behind it but unless they served it in black face I don’t see the issue.
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The black students at the middle school took issue with it.  That's where the push came from and it was specifically regarding adding watermelon to it. >

If the black kids took this at a dig at them, I should imagine it's not a school where they feel valued most other days either