Kroger's Kwaanza Holiday Specials!

[Andy]

I agree with Astro. I mean, the MLK thing is pretty funny, but what's wrong with pandering to a demographic? Everybody does it. Everytime Nintendo puts Mario in another stupid sport, and every time Capcom makes another damned Street Fighter, they're doing the exact same thing to all of us. Same shit, stop being so PC you hippies

[Fe 26]

What exactly should they put on sale for that holiday, if not those foods? What would be the PC thing to do? And don't say "there should not be a sale" because then you are depriving someone of saving money.

[cka]

That advertisement is a definite keeper.

[Shine]

Astro + Andy: IIRC (and any Black Muslims are free to correct me as they see fit) but Kwaanza is a celebration of anti-consumerism, gifts are thus handmade. Also, as part of the Muslim diet, fried foods are not "kosher" - for lack of a better word. Finally, as this holiday pertains to Black Muslims exclusively, it plays out like a bold slap in the face of their culture by perpetuating stereotypes against a group that has been fighting against. Oh yeah, and what CV said too.

[AstroBlue]

That advertisement is a definite keeper.

Kwanzaa has nothing to do with black muslims (although they are the main group that supports it), it's a cultural holiday for African-Americans. Not a religious one. Hurray for supporting a stereotype about kwanzaa though.

The word you're looking for is "halal" and it doesn't have anything against frying foods. It would only matter if you used animal fat to fry it, but you can still fry with vegetable oils like peanut, canola or olive.

[Calliander]

Any holiday where you get to eat fried chicken, yams, and watermelon is a damned good holidy to me. That ad is too funny.

[MechDeus]

I'm still not seeing it. Why is it a racial stereotype to try sell African-American's karumu staples?

It's like having an ad that says, "White People: Sale on Mayonnaise!"

But it's not perpetuating theological stereotypes when stores try to sell "Christmas Fare" like Leg Ham, Turkey, Roast Potatoes and Fruit Cake?

I don't know what you're talking about, because Christmas fruit cakes are quite possibly the most made-fun-of food in existance. And turkey isn't really pushed on Christmas, that's more of a Thanksgiving thing (and plenty seem to have gone through too much turkey by then, Christmas is more known for ham).

Neither are "official" foods of those celebrations. I don't think there is anything in the Bible that says you must eat Turkey, Roast Potatoes and Fruit Cake during Christmas. In the same way Dr. Maulana Karenga never said to eat Collard Greens and Black Eye Peas. Both are social conventions.

Exactly the point. It has nothing to do with religion or anything similar (like Matza) and everything to do with a stereotype.

So where is the distinction?

Because they didn't have a general sale or a sale on all sorts of foodstuffs, they had an ad for a holiday primarily only celebrated by black people for discounts on stereotypical food that such a culture eats. It's not like Kosher food being targeted at Jews.

Next on sale for the Christians:

[Andy]

It's like having an ad that says, "White People: Sale on Mayonnaise!"

I would buy the mayonnaise of any advertisment that said that.

[Critical Overdrive]

[CynicalSphere]

Amazing. What college is this?

Angelo State University, aka "Harvard on the Brazos."

I don't know. Perhaps it was all a dumb coincidence, whatever, but this is also West Texas where, for better or worse, this sort of shit tends to pass by unnoticed because EVERYONE eats that kind of food...