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Guy sells "Drunken Negro Cookies"

JulesMaximus

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At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a "Drunken Negro Face" cookie in, um, "honor" of President Obama. [Video below.] A shocked customer tells My Fox NY that Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, asked her, "Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They're in honor of our new president. He's following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his."

Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies?they're actually drunken "N-word" cookies. She says the backwards baker then repeated the dark suggestion that, like Lincoln, President Obama "will get what's coming to him." Go Secret Service, go!

And it gets worse when Fox's Arnold Diaz goes into the store with a camera and microphone to confront Kefalinos, who suddenly makes Joe the Plumber look like a Rhodes scholar. "I called them Drunken Negro Heads. What's the problem with that?" Kefalinos asks the newscaster with a smirk. "On Inauguration Day I thought it would be cool to change the name to Obama Heads. I just changed it for the day." We suppose Burning Cross Bananas Foster was too complicated to mass-produce.

Kefalinos denies intimating that Obama would be assassinated, and insists that the cookie is "not unflattering. I think it's a fun face... And anyone who says anything else should be ashamed of themselves." Besides, nobody got upset about the "Dead Geese Bread" he sold after the recent Hudson River plane crash. (We're NOT making that up.) Also, Kefalinos insists he can't be racist because, for one thing, "my brother-in-law, he's Cuban." Below, behold the breathtaking train wreck of racist ignorance.

UPDATE: We just spoke with Kefalinos on the phone and he remains utterly oblivious, telling us, "This whole thing was blown out of proportion." He says he's sold out of the "Drunken Negro Cakes" and doesn't plan to make anymore, despite the fact that many customers have been requesting them (he claims). When asked whether he understands that most African-Americans find the word "negro" offensive, Kefalinos explains, "It's a French word. It comes from the French."

Community Board 2 was quick to call for a boycott of Lafayette French Pastry, to which Kefalinos responds, "I'm sorry they feel that way because I was trying to do a nice thing." Not seeming to grasp in any way the degree of outrage he's sparked, he added, "I did it and that's the end of it and it's over."

UPDATE 1/24: Now Ted Kefalinos apologizes: "Seriously, from the bottom of my heart, it was an innocent design I created. It was nothing more than just a piece of art."
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Wow...what a moron.

I predict he'll be out of business in no time.
 
If you consistently visited a small mom-and-pop store and they put up something like this, would you stop going there?
 
Originally posted by: oiprocs
If you consistently visited a small mom-and-pop store and they put up something like this, would you stop going there?
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If he expressed something as reprehensible as that to me...yes, I would.
 
Oh no, he actually expressed his own feelings... his own thoughts... you know, just like serving drunken GWB cookies, but now because he is black, it is expressly not allowed... fucking double standards...

yes i know his cookies are racist, but so is everyone in the world, he just expressed what he felt, there is in no way shape or form a completely non racist person in the world...
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Oh no, he actually expressed his own feelings... his own thoughts... you know, just like serving drunken GWB cookies, but now because he is black, it is expressly not allowed... fucking double standards...

yes i know his cookies are racist, but so is everyone in the world, he just expressed what he felt, there is in no way shape or form a completely non racist person in the world...
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Umm, get back in line with the collective before you are punished.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Oh no, he actually expressed his own feelings... his own thoughts... you know, just like serving drunken GWB cookies, but now because he is black, it is expressly not allowed... fucking double standards...

yes i know his cookies are racist, but so is everyone in the world, he just expressed what he felt, there is in no way shape or form a completely non racist person in the world...
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Yeah, and I heard on Howard Stern this morning that he's been getting calls of death threats and that his store will be burned to the ground.

Guy should write a book, "How to Ruin Your Thriving Business in 3 Easy Steps."
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Oh no, he actually expressed his own feelings... his own thoughts... you know, just like serving drunken GWB cookies, but now because he is black, it is expressly not allowed... fucking double standards...

yes i know his cookies are racist, but so is everyone in the world, he just expressed what he felt, there is in no way shape or form a completely non racist person in the world...
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Yeah, and I heard on Howard Stern this morning that he's been getting calls of death threats and that his store will be burned to the ground.
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Wow....Obama supporters respond to tasteless free speech with threats of violence and arson....


Shocked?
 
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Obama is as fair game to bitter loathsome satire as was George Bush.
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While I agree, I don't think niggar should be used to sell any merchandise due to the derogatory nature of the word. Drunken Negro Cookies? Sure, why not? He could even call them Obama Negro Cookies and I'm fine with that.


...and for the record, I am black.
 
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