St. Paul Target employees offended
over Juneteenth display in break room
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Nicole Norfleet
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/25/2021 5:37:58 PM
Several employees at a St. Paul Target store complained to management about a tabletop display in the break room for Juneteenth that included cherry Kool-Aid packets, watermelon candy and servings of hot sauce. The display was set up for Juneteenth by a human resources manager at the Midway Target on University Avenue and had different iterations before it was removed on Tuesday following concerns by workers that the table was offensive and glorified stereotypes of Black people, employees said.(Snip) Employees' pictures of the tabletop display at the Midway Target showed a Pan-African flag as well as bowls of Kool-Aid, watermelon
Has anyone else noticed how many national companies’ advertising on TV includes shuckin’ and jivin’ and “talk to the hand” stereotypes of blacks? I’m specifically referring to the “Scoop, there it is” ice cream commercial. It seems pretty blatant. I guess they figure that’s the only way they can communicate to that culture.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/25/2021 5:54:53 PM (No. 826636)
OP forgot Fentanyl.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/25/2021 6:15:36 PM (No. 826656)
This one was too easy OP but at least the 'woke' Target human resources manager thought it was clever and it failed his dumb clever thought of equity and white guilt. The HRM just canceled his liberal 'woke' self. This is too funny.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/25/2021 6:42:13 PM (No. 826674)
Note to snowflakes - stereotypes exist for a reason - because they are usually true.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/25/2021 6:56:26 PM (No. 826688)
There is nothing that anyone could have done that the Black community would have not take offense at for Juneteenth! Better to have done nothing than make any attempt to placate these people. The biggest problem is that if they had the chance to select things to represent them, they would have selected the exact same things.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/25/2021 7:00:13 PM (No. 826692)
How cheap I'd be offended by it too. Now if it had fried chicken or BBQ everyone would have loved it.
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Come on, man. Where's the purple drank?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/25/2021 7:10:31 PM (No. 826699)
I am determined to be offended, so get back in that break room and do something else. Do it better this time or I will just have to go some place else to be offended! Don't matter to me none that you ''meant well.'' /s
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Moritz55 6/25/2021 7:32:56 PM (No. 826713)
Next Juneteenth, I think we should have a special focus on Major General Gordon Granger and the other Republicans who set the Democrats’ slaves free.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DARling 6/25/2021 7:43:18 PM (No. 826720)
If they had done nothing, the grievance mongers would have been twice as offended. You can't win with entitled blacks and their white liberal mouthpieces.
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I'm gonna sit in that break room on the clock until they quit offending me!
Alright, I slid into a smokin' marketing idea for next Juneteemph. Have these plastic necklaces made to look like rusted chains connected by those little things that kept pop beads together. Sell for Juneteemph and let the throwing off of chains begin (women may opt for a more familiar way to come by a necklace).😊
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 6/25/2021 8:36:53 PM (No. 826750)
The color red is the chosen color of food and treats for Juneteenth. Watermelon may be viewed as racist because it's associated with blacks. People at my wife's school also were reluctant to mention watermelon as a Juneteenth food because it might be viewed as racist. Next time just serve fried chicken and chitlins and be done with it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SALady 6/25/2021 8:47:42 PM (No. 826757)
Idiot companies that even try to pander to these eternally butt-hurt minorities are always going to end up on the losing end every time!!!!
Better to just ignore all holidays and then you can't "offend" anyone. It doesn't matter that it takes all of the fun out of work not getting to celebrate holidays.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/25/2021 9:29:56 PM (No. 826777)
Although you see far more minorities in television commercials these days, you certainly hear far less rap music in commercials than you did several years ago. I guess that advertisers finally realized that the majority of Americans despise hip hop.
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Don't you mean "coonteenth"?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/25/2021 10:39:20 PM (No. 826815)
My bad. We had a beautiful watermelon that had been iced down for a couple of days, and Popeyes fried us some really fine chicken, so now I'm already looking forward to next 'juneteenth!' I don't even feel guilty for appropriating the bros holiday!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 6/26/2021 12:01:09 AM (No. 826843)
Good grief. These people are relentless. I’m over it,
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/26/2021 12:02:44 AM (No. 826844)
It's okay to associate hot sauce with black people when you're a democrat lord running for office. And I do mean you, hitlery.
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Go in any break room and see employees segregated. These people act like they invented the Emancipation Proclamation.
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No menthol cigarettes, no malt liquor, Jolly Ranchers, Sprite, codeine cough syrup, blunts, Fritos, or Nivea lotion? The lack of inclusivity makes it easy to see why they were mad.