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I think people in the Lower Nine like those greasy fried chicken [places]
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:33 am
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:33 am
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New Orleans City Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen apologized on Sunday for comments she said were taken out of context in a story published Sunday in The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate, in which she described a preference among residents of the Lower 9th Ward for “greasy fried chicken” places.
“In the context they were presented, my example of residents enjoying fried chicken and its abundance in the area came off as insensitive, and for that, I apologize,” she said in a statement to neighborhood residents.
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The comments that Hughes said he found offensive came during a recent interview conducted with Nguyen during a driving tour of the Lower 9th Ward. Nguyen was responding to a question about what kind of commerce the neighborhood can realistically support, given its shrunken populace since Hurricane Katrina.
“I’ll be candid -- having Wal-Mart come to the neighborhood, it ain’t gonna happen,” she said in the interview. “The concept of even like a Raising Cane’s, I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
She went on: “This is just a reality, OK, and this is not putting anybody down: I think people in the Lower Nine like those greasy fried chicken [places],” Nguyen said.
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What she was trying to impart, Nguyen wrote on Sunday, was not “that fried chicken is all residents of the Lower 9th Ward want or deserve." Rather, "it was to describe that the Lower 9th Ward is a food desert, with the lack of access to healthy food alternatives due to the saturation of convenience stores and gas stations with unhealthy food options.”
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:34 am to arseinclarse
All this and I’m pissed I can’t find a good fried chicken place in a White Neighborhood.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:35 am to arseinclarse
I like greasy fried chicken
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:36 am to arseinclarse
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Nguyen’s apology came shortly after a state representative, Jason Hughes, D-New Orleans, wrote in an open letter on Sunday that he was “shocked, appalled, and insulted” at Nguyen's words, which he wrote “ate away at the core of my soul.”
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:36 am to arseinclarse
The hipster Oregon transplants want to participate in the cultcha
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:37 am to arseinclarse
Is she wrong though?
And to be fair, as a honkey, i love greasy arse fried chicken too
And to be fair, as a honkey, i love greasy arse fried chicken too
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:38 am to arseinclarse
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food desert
This is such a stupid term. You don't have some right to have a grocery store close to your house.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:39 am to fallguy_1978
Black folk are demanding kale and lentil and the man is denying them such luxuries.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:39 am to arseinclarse
I’d crawl across the seeber bridge then swim back across the canal for a 2 piece white and meat pie from Brother’s
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:40 am to Cosmo
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And to be fair, as a honkey, i love greasy arse fried chicken too
You're WHITE?
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:40 am to arseinclarse
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for comments she said were taken out of context in a story
The story quoted her answer to a specific question so they were definitely placed in context.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:40 am to arseinclarse
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like those greasy fried chicken [places]
like this is a bad thing?
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:41 am to fallguy_1978
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You don't have some right to have a grocery store close to your house.
You do when you don’t have transportation & according to Bill Cassidy public transportation doesn’t count because healthy foods are heavier than junk foods & it’s too hot to carry heavy healthy foods on a bus in August in Louisiana
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:43 am to fallguy_1978
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This is such a stupid term. You don't have some right to have a grocery store close to your house.
I wonder why groceries aren't lining up to open in such neighborhoods.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:43 am to arseinclarse
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greasy fried chicken [places],” Nguyen said.
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The concept of even like a Raising Cane’s, I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
wut
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:44 am to arseinclarse
"He's doing quite well, pretty impressive. That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it. Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."
FUZZY
FUZZY
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:44 am to MorbidTheClown
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a racist Vietnamese?
I need a pic to decide. Is she good rooking?
Posted on 8/31/20 at 8:46 am to arseinclarse
So an area that is primarily black likes fried chicken places is insensitive?
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