Texas Restaurant Under Scrutiny for Racist ‘? Chicken Inn’ Sign
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A restaurant in Lubbock, Texas has come under fire in recent days for a racist sign that is hanging up on its wall.
On Thursday, Cook’s Garage responded after a person who attended a Christmas party at the restaurant noticed a neon sign of a black caricature emblazoned with the words “? Chicken Inn.” After the person posted photos of the sign on Facebook, the owners of the restaurant posted the following explanation to its Facebook page:
As you can see above, the restaurant owners contend that they did not mean to offend anyone as the sign was meant to represent “Americana history.” Highlighting that other racist collectibles featuring black caricatures are “highly sought after,” they noted that the Chicken ? Inn was an actual restaurant that existed and that featuring the sign is “preserving a part of history that should remind us all of the senselessness of racial prejudice.”
After the Facebook response from Cook’s Garage went viral and local station WLBT 3 posted a story stating that “some are calling” the sign racist, folks on Twitter reacted.
A ‘commerical’ for ? Chicken Inn was featured in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a movie that presented an alternate history where the Confederacy won the Civil War. The 2001 movie Ghost World also used a sign from the restaurant as a plot point.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/texas-restaurant-under-scrutiny-for-racist-? -chicken-inn-sign/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEiWVlawnwUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirXCaAR4g8A restaurant in Lubbock, Texas has come under fire in recent days for a racist sign that is hanging up on its wall.
On Thursday, Cook’s Garage responded after a person who attended a Christmas party at the restaurant noticed a neon sign of a black caricature emblazoned with the words “? Chicken Inn.” After the person posted photos of the sign on Facebook, the owners of the restaurant posted the following explanation to its Facebook page:
As you can see above, the restaurant owners contend that they did not mean to offend anyone as the sign was meant to represent “Americana history.” Highlighting that other racist collectibles featuring black caricatures are “highly sought after,” they noted that the Chicken ? Inn was an actual restaurant that existed and that featuring the sign is “preserving a part of history that should remind us all of the senselessness of racial prejudice.”
After the Facebook response from Cook’s Garage went viral and local station WLBT 3 posted a story stating that “some are calling” the sign racist, folks on Twitter reacted.
A ‘commerical’ for ? Chicken Inn was featured in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a movie that presented an alternate history where the Confederacy won the Civil War. The 2001 movie Ghost World also used a sign from the restaurant as a plot point.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/texas-restaurant-under-scrutiny-for-racist-? -chicken-inn-sign/
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Wow!
And of course the standard apology "we didn't mean to offend" -
Lubbock...nuff said.
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White ? casserole
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inb4 - "but but what about ? Barrel?"
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and ? still gonna eat at this place. ? it....we dont have our own ? might as well get used to it
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Whenever it says 'Chicken'? comin lol Just like at Bojangles
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But Boston tho..
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MasterJayN100 wrote: »Whenever it says 'Chicken'? comin lol Just like at Bojangles
Bojangles hasnt made it past the mason dixon line for obvious reasons -
And they want us to get over racism clearly its still on they minds
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Colin$mackabi$h wrote: »And they want us to get over racism clearly its still on they minds
How can we forget when police continue harassing and killing us just for being black and having a Voice agianst them?They want us to be Smiling ,Shucking and Jiving,and entertaining them.? shouldnt speak against them or ? will reap harsh criticism -
but how many black people was there?
and how many will say it dont matter to them cause them biscuits and mac and cheese sides are off the chain? -
You can fill a library with racists ? from cacs
These devils got restaurants dedicated to us.
They've made an entire culture out of being racists.
Yet have the audacity to say black people are the most racist -
Turfaholic wrote: »MasterJayN100 wrote: »Whenever it says 'Chicken'? comin lol Just like at Bojangles
Bojangles hasnt made it past the mason dixon line for obvious reasons
Y'all ? up north missing out. What's so badD about a place named after a Sammy Davis Jr song? Nah but go ahead and eat your dry ass Popeye's and salty ass KFC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45g3YP7JOk
