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?

Although the media has mostly overblown the role that Twitter has played in the uprisings surrounding the Iranian elections with most people on the ground are still relying on SMS texts and good ol’ word of mouth, there’s no denying the impact its had on the micro-blogging community. From rappers to porn stars and celebrities, everyone’s getting in on the revolutionary action. And now with this Twitter application that automatically adds a green overlay to avatars, armchair activism has never been so convenient. ANIMAL decided to take a look at the eclectic mix of personalities who’ve gone green for the cause, see some of them below.

Activist actress and heartthrob: Alyssa Milano

Coward and pseudo political pundit: Meghan McCain

Caricature rapper: MC Hammer

Unfunny comedian and nerd: John Hodgman

Political pundit and shell of a man: Joe Scarborough

Daily Show correspondent: Rob Riggle

Celebrity Puppet: Insult the Comic Dog

Infamous anti-war protester and actress: ‘Hanoi’ Jane Fonda

Formerly relevant actor : John Larroquette

Celebrity for no reason: Nicole Ritchie

Superthug and rapper: N.O.R.E.

Attack of the Show host: Olivia Munn

Roots drummer and Twitter emeritus: ?uestlove

Porn empress: Joanna Angel

In this clip, ?uestlove of The Roots expresses his disappointment with Method Man and Redman over a memo they sent requesting the house band not back them up for an album-promoting appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show, preferring two mics and a DJ instead. The drummer argues that he’s got the skills, telling Hip Hop pundit Peter Rosenberg, “Damn man, I know how to make this shit sound dirty.” Meth quickly responded in this interview and said, “I can’t rock with a band, I get drowned out.” Red kind of agreed and wants their songs from Blackout 2 to sound like they do in the studio. So don’t expect an “Unplugged” album from these camps ever, despite the band’s proven ability to make beats sound like they do on the record. |Nah Right|

So there’s this new video re-mixing website with some sort of “multi-partisan,” political overlay called RemixAmerica. It’s kind of like YouTube, but you can drag and drop effects and call it a remix. All we did was add an intro and outro for director Jason Goldwatch’s remixed ?uestlove video just so we could embed it here, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try harder.