re: Toya and the city just dropped their #WhereBlackNOLAeats top 20

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the reverse wouldn't make any sense though. these places serve the same types of food

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Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean "white" restaurants all serve the same types of food, or the ones featured in the "black" list do, as in it'd about style of food and not color of patrons?

Either way it's irrelevant given the wording of the list. Had they made a list of the Top 20 "Soul Food" places (or whatever euphemism you want to come up with for predominately black ethnic food) then there would almost certainly be very few complaints. But that's not what they did. They made a list of places frequented by black people and made no reference to the types of food served...just the color of their patrons.

Likewise, if there was a list that purported to be where "White NOLA Eats" people would see it as racially exclusionary and would not give any credence to the suggestion that the list was about cuisine, and would laugh at anyone attempting to suggest such a thing.

The problem is that for decades we've become so accustomed to this double standard that even pointing it out at this point is an uphill battle. You refuse to even acknowledge the hypothetical because it wouldn't make any sense, even though it would just be the exact same thing in reverse.

I think its an odd way to list the restaurants white people want to avoid.

Wasn’t there a whole civil rights movement where people wanted African Americans to be integrated into society? Now they only want Blacks to shop and eat at Black owned restaurants. The world has gone full circle.

It’s time for Somebody to get the Four horsemen together.

*Looks at list*

*Googles 'nearest Zoe's Kitchen'*

Crab claws
BBQ shrimp
Fried chicken
Red beans
Gumbo

What awesome racist horse shite

Does that mean the next white mayor will list the best white places to eat? What would be wrong with it?

Where not to wait tables!*

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but it's just a list saying the most popular restaurants blacks like to eat at in the city, what about that segregates them from whites? What if a black tourist wanted to visit the city and wanted to know where people of his/her own culture like to go. Is that racist?

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Here is my thing. Are white people allowed to have their own culture? Imagine a list for white tourists to go to so they can be around other white people veiled in the fallacy of white "culture."

We both know that would never fly today and that's what's so hypocritical to most white people I know.

Nobody tells ME where to eat except my wife.

what is the average expected tip at these places?