Popular DC deli apologizes for
‘co-opting Black culture’
WTOP-TV [Washington, DC],
by
Nick Iannelli
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/30/2020 1:23:44 PM
Responding to community feedback, a popular D.C. deli has apologized for naming several of its menu items after Black athletes and entertainers.
“As our company’s leaders, we have not done enough to show what we have always known to be true: that Black Lives Matter,” said Andrew Dana and Daniela Moreira, owners of Call Your Mother deli, in a statement on their website. “Although it was never our intention, we now understand that these choices were co-opting Black culture and profiting off it, without truly paying homage.” There were bagel sandwiches on the menu that included the names of famous singer Rihanna and former NBA
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 6/30/2020 1:28:03 PM (No. 461978)
It won't matter if and when the MOB comes calling.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/30/2020 1:30:33 PM (No. 461981)
You can almost smell the fear. Terrified that they will be torched or vandalized, they try to do a preemptory insurance policy. No realization that it won’t work if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
droopydog 6/30/2020 1:31:48 PM (No. 461983)
I hate to see innocent, hard-working people groveling at the feet of violent psychopaths. They see it as there only option vs. financial ruin and/or physical harm.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/30/2020 1:35:38 PM (No. 461989)
The flip-side is that if they didn't name menu items after bLACK people, they'd be slammed as racist and exclusionary, and again pressured to make changes in management etc. It's a shakedown tactic finely honed by the likes of The Reverend Jesse Jackson and The Reverend Al Sharpton, who do well indeed for themselves in their aim to do good. Slavery was a terrible mistake.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/30/2020 1:36:04 PM (No. 461990)
Amazing what people will say/do when you threaten to burn their business to the ground.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Albatross 6/30/2020 1:39:43 PM (No. 461997)
So they are expunging photos and menu references of Black celebrities. Isn't that what the KKK would want them to do?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Faithfully 6/30/2020 1:42:05 PM (No. 462001)
Deals with the devil never work.
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This is a classic plot in old Westerns...the honest businessmen are harassed by a gang of outlaws and the entire town cowed into paying tribute or risk a burning out or a bullet in the back. The plot featured a HERO who came to town and stood up, rallying the townsfolk to reclaim their community and self-esteem.
Today's townsfolk are generally gutless, just like their fictional counterparts. And the shakedown has been perfected over the years by thieves such as Jackson, Sharpton and many, many other local imitators. The popular media spreads the hysteria, hammers home the "injustice" of systemic -isms that need correction and repentance.
It's always easier to go along to get along...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 6/30/2020 1:56:36 PM (No. 462018)
Name a sandwich after Robert Byrd. Joe Biden will approve. /s
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Can it get any more ridiculous? Probably so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
valinva 6/30/2020 2:09:37 PM (No. 462030)
They are putting a new bagel on the menu. It's called the White Woke Owner. It's plain with nothing on it because it is unable to stand up to anything.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Socaworld 6/30/2020 2:35:25 PM (No. 462056)
Lemme see if I get this correctly. If you offer a tribute to their "culture", you are appropriating it. If you ignore it, then you are discriminatory and non-inclusive. uh-huh. Just like when you move out of Brooklyn because of the crime and drugs, you are racist because you are driving down home prices; if you move back, you are racist because you are driving up prices. Got it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/30/2020 2:51:24 PM (No. 462083)
Companies groveling stupidly like this in my area, so far none known, will be noted by me, and I will shift my business to their competitors, permanently.
1 person likes this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Pnstrpilot 6/30/2020 3:21:37 PM (No. 462127)
Less than 14% of the nation's population......ENOUGH of this!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cheeflo 6/30/2020 3:23:51 PM (No. 462130)
At one time, this was known as homage, wasn't it?
Talk about white supremacy -- these woke white progressives are negating blacks from history and from the culture.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
singermom9 6/30/2020 4:01:11 PM (No. 462168)
It will be funny after anything black cannot be in advertising. Just wait. Soon the blacks will be complaining that they have no market share in advertising. Get rid of ALL of it. Get rid of anything black. Soon they will be wanting it back. Short sighted.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/30/2020 4:28:04 PM (No. 462193)
The best delis are Jewish or Italian. Looks as though their attempt to encourage black patronage backfired.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/30/2020 4:41:58 PM (No. 462213)
Good grief!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/30/2020 6:08:27 PM (No. 462283)
Just rename it "Call Yo Mama deli" or anybody else who cares.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/30/2020 6:46:00 PM (No. 462318)
For their egregious racism, nothing short of setting themselves on fire in front of the White House will make amends.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
padiva 6/30/2020 8:42:38 PM (No. 462404)
#19 or 'Who's your Daddy? Deli'
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Some companies can cash in on bLACKness, others can't. The deli owners here are not bLACK, so they are attacked. The public groveling is a good first step, but how about shining the shoes of every bLACK patron who enters? Woke-Fil-A would approve.