the emancipation of enslaved people. A portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” the holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, the day roughly 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston, Tex., announcing that more than 250,000 enslaved people in the state had been freed more than two years earlier when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a day that has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the United States.
Several of the hundreds of people commenting on the post by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis said they were offended by the museum marring the holiday, which is also known asThe museum has responded several times since the woman first highlighted the watermelon salad. Two hours after she posted the photo, the museum replied in the Facebook comments section.
“There should have been a label explaining the history and meaning behind this menu item and it should not have been on the shelf before that label was ready,” it wrote. “We understand how this appears with no context and we apologize.” The reply included such a label titled “Honoring Juneteenth,” which read, “Red food are the most prominent features of Juneteenth menus: red velvet cake, strawberry, watermelon, red soda.” Then there’s a quote attributed to Natelegé Whaley, a cultural journalist: “Red is a color that evokes cultural memory of bloodshed by our enslaved ancestors through the transatlantic enslaved person trade.” The museum’s reply has been edited to remove the image of the label.
“Nice backpedaling but It’s extremely tone deaf to not realize that many of your patrons possibly find this offensive due to stereotypes that still currently exist,” she wrote, adding: “A watermelon salad to represent the blood of my ancestors. Oh yay!”“This country and these companies keep giving us everything except what we want,” she wrote. “Reparations is out of the question but here’s a Juneteenth watermelon salad.
The person who wasn’t smart enough to know this would cause a backlash probably shouldn’t be working in a museum.
oh for the love of God! only because the media says so! Watermelons are yummy for all
Of course it was Indiana
Stereotypes exist for a reason, yeah not all people like the same things but most do in some races and groups of people.
Maybe Juneteenth really should not be a holiday if people just cannot accept it as one and must complain about everything. Watermelon and Ice cream is racist because it has Juneteenth labelled on it.
They do this sh*t on purpose so why give this fake apology?
the real negative impact is that The Washington Post calls itself a reliable news publication when you have a 49-year-old creeper chick writing false stories and you are too afraid to fire her ass maybe when Bezos loses millions in a lawsuit you will have a change of heart.
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