Thank you to author Val Joyner for this link. Ted Kefalinos, owner of Lafayette French Pastry in the Village, is selling blackface caricatures of African Americans as cookies. (Talk about Eating the Other.) Please boycott this bakery, located at 26 Greenwich Avenue.
Watch the Fox 5 Arnold Diaz “Shame, Shame, Shame” broadcast and check out the NewYorkMag.com and Gothamist.com articles and discussion boards.
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Yes, this has been making the rounds. The
haters will always be among us, I’m afraid.
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I’m speechless. New York as the “melting pot” does not escape the racism that still abounds in this world. And it?s just plain and simple? he?s an idiot! This was very informative, thanks Eisa!
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This the millieu we’re in. Not virulent, invidious stuff. No, it’s indirect, joking and often somewhat “innocently” inadvertent. I’ll bet this fool genuinely believed it was okay.
Some of this relates to our lack of control of our own images on TV (e.g. “reality shows”), film, Hip Hop(yeah, I said!). When the coarse, the bamma, the violent and the ghettofab get play, white people think it’s all cool, all a joke, all a party.
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No doubt this is blatant RACISM! The bakery should be investigated by the FBI, because the owner made a direct threat towards President Obama. The pendulum swings endlessly and for every step we move ahead, we still have to keep boycoting. We as a people MUST NOT take these incidents lightly. Stop referring to each other as N——.
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IM sorry.this guy wasnbt to bright..but some of the blacks and thier new panther party have way to much hate and no brains ..they are the true racists…in this day and age?..to hold this one ppor guy trying to make a bussiness for himeself..is this news..is this true racism?..or just something to let everyone else in this country know that “we are still discriminated against!”..