{"id":44884,"date":"2012-02-09T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44884"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:53:08","slug":"black-history-month-kool-aid-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/09\/black-history-month-kool-aid-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Kool-Aid Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted in the past about awkward or puzzling attempts by companies to recognize Black History Month. The L.A. Clippers <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/07\/happy-late-black-history-month-faux-pas-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">let underprivileged kids attend a game for free<\/a>, though technically in the wrong month. The NBC cafeteria offered <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/10\/the-paradox-of-black-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">fried chicken and collard greens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/17\/frying-chicken-and-collard-greens-headline-black-history-month-themed-flier\/\" target=\"_blank\">as did a grocery store<\/a>. Or maybe you prefer to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/celebrate-black-history-month-by-relaxing-your-hair\/\" target=\"_blank\">celebrate Black History Month by buying hair straightener<\/a>. And sometimes companies just sort of <em>say<\/em> they&#8217;re celebrating Black History Month, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/25\/black-history-month-about-skin-deep\/\" target=\"_blank\">without any specifics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emma A. sent in our newest example. Chad Ochocinco, of the New England Patriots, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/8h1fj8\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted this pic<\/a> of Black History Month being celebrated&#8230;with a sale on Kool-Aid:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/512349668.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44885\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/512349668.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted in the past about awkward or puzzling attempts by companies to recognize Black History Month. The L.A. Clippers let underprivileged kids attend a game for free, though technically in the wrong month. The NBC cafeteria offered fried chicken and collard greens, as did a grocery store. Or maybe you prefer to celebrate Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,285,1760],"class_list":["post-44884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44886,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884\/revisions\/44886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}