Here we go..
Imagine standing in a line for lunch. The customer in front you pays $12 for his food box but when you go to pay for the same product, the chef asks if you’re willing to shell out $30 instead.
Why? Because you’re white.
That's ridiculous you say, just another example of the all out attack on white people in America!
Nearly 80% of white customers agreed to pay the inflated price for a pre-fixed Nigerian food box lunch at Wey’s Saartje food stand – after he explained that the request was meant to shine a light on New Orleans’ dramatic and widening income gap.
Wait what? The fools, why not just stand in the firing line. Don't they see what's happening?
Median net income for white families in New Orleans is more than $63,000. For black families, it is just below $26,000. Wey’s $18 food price gap was intended to approximate this earnings gap, which has been growing since cataclysmic flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 radically reshaped the city.
“First I introduce the facts and as a white person, you are now an antagonist in this framework,” Wey said. “But I offer you an easy out. You can pay $12 or you can pay $30. What are you going to do?”
Pay the equal price as we live in an equal choice society of course. What next, are we going to make allowances for women too?
Trends still emerged. For example, white patrons who decided to pay the $30 were more likely to be female: 91% of white women did so compared with just 55% of white men.
Men are clearly vastly more attuned to free market philosophy.
“I don’t think it’s as difficult to talk to a woman and tell her, ‘There’s something about my personhood that I have nothing to do with and it’s affecting my income and affecting what I can achieve in life,’” said Anjali Prasertong, a nutritionist and writer who was enlisted by Wey to collect data.
“Pretty much every woman has experienced that herself.”
Yeah yeah, the old white men are advantaged, show me any evidence.. other than ratio of presidents.. or CEOs.. or upper management.. or..
Wey, who was born in Nigeria, said he was responding to the “Eurocentric perspective of popular food culture”. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, he is planning to mount his next culinary social experiment in Detroit in late April.
The enemy has shown their weakness.. to arms people, defend Detroit!
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Still, the point of the experiment was not to redistribute wealth. It was to start a conversation.
“This isn’t going to change the racial wealth disparities in the city,” Wey said. “It was meant to show, in principle, what the burden of cost looks like for people who have less resources.”
Is this a welcome choice to give to society to make them think or just another means of attacking the endangered species?
