Did ?uestlove Betray an NBC Cafeteria Cook?

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A minor racial controversy erupted yesterday afternoon when ?uestlove posted a photo he took in the NBC cafeteria to his Twitter account, a picture of a special menu offering for Black History Month featuring fried chicken, black-eyed peas, and collard greens. In his tweet, ?uestlove posted the note, “Hmm HR?”, insinuating that the NBC brass needed to consider the whole thing racist. But the menu was prepared by a black cafeteria worker who says that ?uestlove actually discussed the menu with her and specifically requested neck bones in the black-eyed peas.

Leslie Calhoun told the Post that all she wanted to do was “make a meal that everyone would enjoy — and that I eat myself.” And then ?uestlove sort of stabbed her in the back.

“Questlove, who I serve every day and who enjoys my food, requested the neck bone [cooked in] the black-eyed peas and fried chicken, then got off the line, saying, ‘This is racist,’ ” she said.

“The next thing you know, people were taking pictures of the sign and asking all the other black people in the cafeteria if this was racist. They said that it wasn’t.”

In the wake of the controversy, NBC pulled the plug on the fried chicken/collard greens special menu item, which left poor Leslie Calhoun understandably heartbroken.

A disappointed Calhoun, who has worked at NBC for eight years, said she’s been begging for years to make special entrees in honor of Black History Month, and got her wish last year.

So is ?uestlove just a dick?


3 Responses to “Did ?uestlove Betray an NBC Cafeteria Cook?”

  1. redbeard

    Neck bones in black-eyed peas? That's some pretty heavy chokeplay.

  2. WILLIE

    shame on a niccuh who try to run game on a niccuh…

    STOP SNITCHIN'?!

  3. can you say ego?

    Mr. Thonmpson is obviously upset with his recent career choices. He is on the lame Jimmy Fallon show and is writhing British pop songs now. Nothing like some 'racism' to get more followers. His Twipic comments speak for themselves.

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