In the middle of “Black History Month” this year, The Daily Wire reported an incident out of NYU where two employees overseeing campus culinary services were fired over a racially insensitive “Soul Food Menu” that outraged several students.
On February 20, 2018, NYU sophomore Nia Harris and several other African-American students took offense when they entered the “Weinstein Dining Hall” to see that the dishes being served in honor of “Black History Month” were items such as barbeque ribs, cornbread, collard greens, mac & cheese, as well as Kool-aid and watermelon fruit punch. In a Facebook post, Nia Harris alleged that when she brought her complaints to the staff, they said that black employees were the ones who planned the menu. The excuse did not wash with the students and they took their complaints to social media and the incident made national headlines.
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