Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: White Customers Asked To Pay More. (unemployment, ethic)
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Can a $12 lunch change the way people think about racial wealth disparity in America? How about a $30 lunch? That's the premise behind a social experiment playing out in a New Orleans food stall.
The median income for African-American households in New Orleans fell from $32,332 in 2000 to $27,812 in 2013 in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to The Data Center's New Orleans Index at Ten. Over the same time, median income for white households in the city remained roughly the same, $61,117 to $60,070. In 2013, the median household income for African-Americans in metro New Orleans was 54 percent lower than for whites.
These customers also have the option to pay the listed $12 price. The difference between the $12 and $30 meals, customers are informed, will be redistributed to minorities who buy food at the stall. How do white customers react to the proposition?
"Some of them are enthusiastic, some of them are bamboozled a bit by it," Wey says. "But the majority of white folks, nearly 80 percent, decided to pay."
This sounds like when Starbucks was writing pro Lefty propaganda messages on their cups.
I wonder if the 80% of white people that paid the $30 were somehow bullied or shamed into it?
I mean "hey you cheapskate what are you a racist? You got the money". Being called out like that would have many digging deeper into their pockets.
I wonder how business from the white customers they shamed was the next day or did they find someplace else to go that was free of guilt?
Can a $12 lunch change the way people think about racial wealth disparity in America? How about a $30 lunch? That's the premise behind a social experiment playing out in a New Orleans food stall.
The median income for African-American households in New Orleans fell from $32,332 in 2000 to $27,812 in 2013 in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to The Data Center's New Orleans Index at Ten. Over the same time, median income for white households in the city remained roughly the same, $61,117 to $60,070. In 2013, the median household income for African-Americans in metro New Orleans was 54 percent lower than for whites.
These customers also have the option to pay the listed $12 price. The difference between the $12 and $30 meals, customers are informed, will be redistributed to minorities who buy food at the stall. How do white customers react to the proposition?
"Some of them are enthusiastic, some of them are bamboozled a bit by it," Wey says. "But the majority of white folks, nearly 80 percent, decided to pay."
Can a $12 lunch change the way people think about racial wealth disparity in America?
So, Whites should be punished because Black parents refuse to provide a stable home environment that instills morals and values like education and work ethic, resulting in an higher high school drop-out rate for Blacks, leading to systemic unemployment or employment in low skilled jobs that pay less?
And Whites should be punished further still, because those Blacks who did graduate have low grade point averages and low SAT/ACT scores and thus did not earn the ability to attend college, leading to lesser paying jobs?
I don't suppose it occurred to you that Black "Culture" is the biggest obstacle to higher income and wealth.
If Blacks want a piece of the pie, and yes, you have to want it, because no one is going to give it to you, they're going to have to abandon their current Culture.
You got the money". Being called out like that would have many digging deeper into their pockets.
I wonder how business from the white customers they shamed was the next day or did they find someplace else to go that was free of guilt?
I have to wonder about this myself. When I read things like this one has to understand there are two sides to the story. Was anyone made to feel guilt because of their color? I don't think it's right to someone to pay more based on color or anything else. Just what kind of experiment was this and what were they trying to prove?
I find it interesting that many of the white customers embraced their progressive white guilt and paid more, but that many of the black customers didnt want the "handout".
Tired of these worthless social experiments that prove nothing about society.
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Just what kind of experiment was this and what were they trying to prove?
