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cliffnotes: guy makes "Drunken Negro Face" cookies, people get all weird about it like it's 2009 or something.
ps it doesn't even look like obama, wtf
 [UPDATE BELOW] At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a "Drunken Negro Face" cookie in, um, "honor" of President Obama. [Video below.] A shocked customer tells My Fox NY that Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, asked her, "Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They're in honor of our new president. He's following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his."
Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies—they're actually drunken "N-word" cookies. She says the backwards baker then repeated the dark suggestion that, like Lincoln, President Obama "will get what's coming to him." Go Secret Service, go!
And it gets worse when Fox's Arnold Diaz goes into the store with a camera and microphone to confront Kefalinos, who suddenly makes Joe the Plumber look like a Rhodes scholar. "I called them Drunken Negro Heads. What's the problem with that?" Kefalinos asks the newscaster with a smirk. "On Inauguration Day I thought it would be cool to change the name to Obama Heads. I just changed it for the day." We suppose Burning Cross Bananas Foster was too complicated to mass-produce.
Kefalinos denies intimating that Obama would be assassinated, and insists that the cookie is "not unflattering. I think it's a fun face... And anyone who says anything else should be ashamed of themselves." Besides, nobody got upset about the "Dead Geese Bread" he sold after the recent Hudson River plane crash. (We're NOT making that up.) Also, Kefalinos insists he can't be racist because, for one thing, "my brother-in-law, he's Cuban." Below, behold the breathtaking train wreck of racist ignorance.
UPDATE: We just spoke with Kefalinos on the phone and he remains utterly oblivious, telling us, "This whole thing was blown out of proportion." He says he's sold out of the "Drunken Negro Cakes" and doesn't plan to make anymore, despite the fact that many customers have been requesting them (he claims). When asked whether he understands that most African-Americans find the word "negro" offensive, Kefalinos explains, "It's a French word. It comes from the French."
Community Board 2 was quick to call for a boycott of Lafayette French Pastry, to which Kefalinos responds, "I'm sorry they feel that way because I was trying to do a nice thing." Not seeming to grasp in any way the degree of outrage he's sparked, he added, "I did it and that's the end of it and it's over."
UPDATE 1/24: Now Ted Kefalinos apologizes: "Seriously, from the bottom of my heart, it was an innocent design I created. It was nothing more than just a piece of art."
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if the cookie was called drunken white boy, would that be racist? imo, i dont think anyone would think anything of it. its not racist pple just need to lighten up a bit.
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 poisoneye1986: | |
if the cookie was called drunken white boy, would that be racist? imo, i dont think anyone would think anything of it. its not racist pple just need to lighten up a bit.
Good level.
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On a side note, it looks like something a 4-year-old might have made. Can't believe he's charging for them.
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I know, right? looks like a terrible version of mr. potato head
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Yes, it's racist, and calling them "drunken negro heads" is not too bright.......but they look yummy!
IMO repackage them as "silly faces" and make a killing
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I think it is racist (or self depricating) to assume that the word Negro is derrogatory.
As if being Negro is somehow less than being Blanco or any other color?
WTF is wrong with people?
Ever hear of UNCF or NAACP? Both of these organizations that serve the interest of "Negros" use acronyms that are claimed by most whites to be offensive. I dont hear too many brown people complaining.
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Come on people, it's French. Also, he played the "it's art" card so now we are not allowed to complain. Shouldve made them noods imo.
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the other day I saw an awesome clip where the experience porn whore with fake boobs convinced the young aspiring model to do sexy stuff all in the name of art. it was great imo. But it's not like the inexperienced girl was some kind of slut or anything, and she wouldn't do it for some tawdry reason like money. but man, did she love art. as do I.
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| poisoneye1986: | |
if the cookie was called drunken white boy, would that be racist? imo, i dont think anyone would think anything of it. its not racist pple just need to lighten up a bit.
^^^^^This.
If he used white chocolate, people would have a good laugh about.
Fuck, u just cant do a shit these days without being callled a racist.
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If you gonna eat those things make sure you brush aftrewords.
or,
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Im guessing most of you guys live in your own little world where u may have one or two black friends - wohoo - not racist.
The majority of you seem to think if you call black person a black person its racist - its not, you just stating the obvious.
I've lived and worked with Aboriginal people for the past ten years and when one calls me a "white fella" its not because they are being racist. When i see a drunk black man walking around and say "hey look at the drunk black man over there " its not being racist at all because im just stating a fact. When i see a drunk white guy walking around and say "hey, look at drunk white guy over there", again its not racist.
This guy made faces out of chocolate which just happens to be brown - now, he would just look dumb if he called them "drunken white face" wouldnt he.
In my experience the majority of people who kick up a fuss about rasicm have no clue what real racsim can be and probably never will, they think if they read a book about it they are experts on the subject. Get out in the real world and eperience true racism at its best, both white racism and black racism and you will soon realise most things are blown out of proportion.
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I agree 100%, but I think "drunk negro cookies" qualifies (just as drunk honkey cracker mf cookies" would). is it as bad as some/most? no. but again, the funny part is the guy being all "waaaahhh? racist? huhn?"
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