{"id":28495,"date":"2011-02-28T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28495"},"modified":"2020-06-25T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:40:45","slug":"bhm-conclusion-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28495","title":{"rendered":"BHM conclusion: Never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh please, go an entire BHM without bringing this <\/em>up?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Supermarket Offers Black History Month Special on Fried Chicken<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Wednesday, February 06, 2002<\/span><\/p>\n

Associated Press<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

HARRISBURG, Pa.<\/strong> – Giant Food Stores apologized Wednesday after one of its supermarkets advetised a sale on fried chicken in honor of Black History Month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The chain’s Union Deposit store in Dauphin County had a sign Sunday saying, “In honor of Black History Month, we at Giant are offering a special savings on fried chicken.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“It did happen. It was at that one store only,” said Denny Hopkins, Giant’s vice president of advertising. “We had a customer bring the sign to us and complain and we immediately took it down.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“We apologize if that sign offended our customers,” Hopkins said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Store customer Lance Sellers, 31, of Highspire, said he was shocked and embarrassed when he first saw the sign.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I showed it to a few of the other customers … all races of people … and they all were stunned. When I approached the store manager about the problem he had the nerve to ask me why it offended me so much.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopkins said the sign was not meant to be offensive. He said he did not know who made the decision to put up the sign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paula Diane Harris, president of the Greater Harrisburg Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the sign reinforces racist stereotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Not all African-Americans eat fried chicken, greens and chitlins. We like salad, roast beef, low-fat chicken, just like everybody else,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giant is sponsoring several programs for Black History Month, including having jazz bands and soul food samples at its Kline Village Plaza and Union Deposit stores, Hopkins said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sellers said the sign, which he still has, wouldn’t keep him from shopping at the store.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We laugh about it,” he said. “How could they put something like that out there?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit for this article comes from Fox News<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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