A New York City bakery has caused quite a bit of controversy as it capitalizes on President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
The Lafayette French Pastry Bakery in Greenwich Village is selling ‘Drunken Negro Face’ cookies — chocolate covered biscuits with large red eyes, nose and lips.
The bakery owner, Ted Kefalinos, claims it’s “just a fun face”. But news reports say he’s used the “N word” when talking about the cookies and made vague hints of assassination.
He reportedly told several patrons: “They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln. He will get what’s coming to him.”
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HOMELESS VETS HONORED WITH FUNERALS
Pallbearers for Poitier Funeral home prepare to load one of the four caskets holding the remains of homeless United States military veterans, Ernest Holman, Nathaniel Henry Winger, Pedro Deaguero and John Joseph Sweet into a the hearse over the weekend in Miami. The Poitier Funeral home helped transport the bodies to a ‘state funeral’ for the four homeless military veterans.
According to Charles Buford, president of VetsUnited.org:
“Needlessly, veterans are dying in our streets, and we need to provide intervention for them. Although we would love to see the entire homeless community helped, we as veterans have a solemn duty to address the needs of those who have served our nation through military service. We will leave no soldier behind, no matter what the battlefield may be.”
son of a B**Ch is all I can say.. I am truly speechless.. and like Jeezy said if they touch we riding…
Ignorance is still alive and well, but we can’t lose focus. Keep praying for Obama, his family, the Nation, and even that guy who made those cookies.
Drunken negro cookies? Where in his mind does that seem appropriate?????
I am in total agreement with #1…IF THEY TOUCH HIM WE RIDIN’! and all them suck ass cops need to be prosicuted!
It’s really hard to pray for the guy who made the cookies! This is sick I believe he should be prosecuted some how… this makes me sick to my stomach.
AND THEY START TO SHOW THEIR TRUE FACES
Oh HELL NO!! There really is a lot of salty crackers around. NOTHING will happen to Obama and/or his family. They are always in my prayers and under God’s protection. Just let them hattaz keep Hatin’…it won’t change anything.
I kind of think the cookie looks like a dark version of baker’s face. Lol!
How can he cover his tracks and call it “ART” or “INNOCENT”???
I wouldn’t put it past him to have made that comparison to Lincoln.
And isn’t Kefalinos a GREEK name?? An immigrant descendant himself trying to be racist when his own ancestors probably face hardships and prejudice when they came here?
I know if anything happens to my president, I’m heading straight for that Lafayette French Pastry Bakery in Greenwich Village! Hope he’s ready too!
I can’t believe…. you know what, im going to stop myself, because i can believe it. All i can do is shake my head. He couldn’t even hold his head up when he was saying the name of his “work of art”. Stuttering and stumbling like the fool he is, I hope the man that called really does burn his shop down. (and gets away with it) lol, sorry, but i do. Ignorance in America will always exist, I’ve come to that conclusion
Maybe the media (blogs included) shouldn’t pay any attention to this idiot. By posting about this and putting it on the news, you are giving this fool exactly what he wants. I bet he’s already sold a shit load of those and other cookies. BTW I did’t watch the clip but I heard about this story from another coworker…
Preposterous, insensitive, and just plain stupid. Ignorance still thrives within this land evidently, and he calls his work art? This is beyond insulting…I say boycott his azz.
Im not completely surpised…..in this world…wheres theres love theres hate.
But people need to also realize and remeber LOVE always conquers hate.
Stay Blessed.& never give up…ignorance will always try and weakend the wise but wisdom along with power is almost invincible.
I know GOD is watchng over a OBAMA and all of those who believe in him…..
I have no worries
TYPO*
I know GOD is watchng over OBAMA and all of those who believe in him
yes ignorance is alive and well, n it doesnt not need to be entertained by me, that BULL!!!!! innocent ma toush , hes disgusting , jus for that move he should be double back slapped ,
in honor of president obama ???????????? yea right !!!!!!
watch he is gonna get wat he put out 10 times worse , karma aint a nice ho
Those cookies deserve no comment (just pure ignorance at best)! Prejudice is still alive and well. We just have to keep the faith and stay prayed up, because they are only doing things of this nature to keep us chaotic and upset. Let’s refuse to entertain this mess black people…..Smile in the face of ignorance, and never let them take your joy away!
Although I was a Clinton supporter, I can proudly say, as a proud African-American woman, in my great-grandmother’s words……”After many decades, we as a people, have finally moved into the house our ancestors built many years ago for just a little while”, (that just brought tears to my eyes and a smile in my heart when she said this)! History has been made….and our elders are so proud of this moment!
The man in this video right here is no wonder why other countries view Americans as the dumbest people on the planet.
……Well Needles to say it was on FOX NEWS and they’re anti- OBAMA and
……Blacks so FU(K Them. With all the sarcastic black jokes they can cut it out
……because just like they can we start comming out with little saltine cracker
…….jokes!!!! I’m not trying to make this out to be a black against white thing
…….because I’m far from prejudice. I work with all types of races. But it’s just really
…….disturbing to see REDNECKS try to look down on us because were just as
….good as them if not better because
…….OUR PRESIDENT IS BLACK AND HIS HOUSE IS ALL WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
I agree with you #2, but that just pisses me off!!! Now dude is trying to apologize only because he loosing buisness and got people out there ready to whopp his ass is the real reason. He wasn’t sorry when he conjured up the idea and name and he wasn’t sorry when he baked them and he damn sure wasn’t sorry when he placed them out to display to the whole world now was he? Nor was he sorry for his comments about Obama getting what he deserves either. Dude is just apologizing cuz all of what he thought was “funny” is causing his pockets to be dry. Dude probally is a card carrying member of some hate group anyways. Not to mention dude looks nasty and unclean anyway and i woouln’t want to eat what he cooks anyways–racist or not. Drunken Negro face cookies–just ridiculous.
As far as the BART officer, it just goes to show you that police brutality has always been around and is alive & well today. These people we are supposed to trust to protect us? Everytime you turn around another trigger-happy cop is murdering a black unarmed youth.
……..Oh Yeah and about the whole Oscar Grant situation God surely will take care
………of this. He knows may be peace be with the family and justice is served. To
……….the white crackers that did this you should rot in HEL!L!!!!
US may be supposedly becoming more ‘tolerant’ but the fact is it will take another few centuries for this country to see past color (It will probably take most European nations less time, since they are generally more liberal). This certainly won’t happen in any of our lifetimes, even with Obama being elected.
SEE THAT’S THE KILLER PART: THERE ARE REDNECKS IN NYC!! GREENWICH VILLAGE AT THAT! I LIVE HERE (BUT NOT FROM HERE) & RACISM IS HARD TO COME BY HERE, BUT WHEN IT DOES COME, IT’S BLATANT & APPALLING. PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THAT THERE ARE PARTS OF BROOKLYN THAT A BLACK PERSON SHOULD NOT DARE BE SEEN IN CUZ IT’S ALL ITALIAN (MIXED WITH RUSSIANS, POLISH, ETC.. BOTTOMLINE: WHITE.) IT’S CRAZY. MAKES ME WANNA STOMP RIGHT INTO THAT BAKERY AND…. NO LEMME STOP, CUZ THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS, RIGHT?? *sigh* DAMNIT….
& I DON’T EVEN WANNA SEE THAT NEW OSCAR GRANT VIDEO.. SAW THE OLD ONE & IT WAS DISTURBING ENOUGH.
R.I.P. TO HOMELESS VETS. I’M GLAD THEY WERE HONORED, EVEN IF WAS TOO LATE.
it seems white folks are stuck in the early 19th century.
All I can say is let God deal with it, can’t nobody escape him.
*gasp* Ignorance is an understatement! Is he f’ing serious? How could he possibly view that as ‘fun’…Just the usage of the N word is enough, but then the over exaggerated characteristics on the cookie to add to it… Yeah, I agree, he needs to be reprimanded. He better watch his back because folks ain’t playing with their President! His bakery has now garnered all kinds of negative attention and therefore somebody can find his shop and mysteriously he and the bakery will be destroyed. Umph! He knew better than that! It was incredibly distasteful to say the least.
i cant listen to the video but I DID watch it on mute (at work)….I hope sum1 burns his shop down…..fuggin idiot…….
WTF is this sh*t??? This pictured disturbed me a little because it was so damn ugly! Is this what white people still believe all black people look like? FYE WHITE FOLKS… HE’S HALF WHITE HIS DAMN SELF! That doesn’t count for anything??? Obama is an intelligent African American and White American man who has worked hard to get where he’s at! This is just plain ignorant and not funny at all. A**HOLE!
—-Every Black person should buy one of those “fun face cookies” ask for the owner
—–and as soon as he comes out, slap him dead in the face with it. I bet he’ll stop
—-selling it. I am telling you, the white man’s days are numbered; revenge is a dish
—- best served cold. God doesn’t like ugly and there isn’t anything uglier than the
—– bad smelling white man.
no thanks!!! apology not accepted just an ordinary ignorant white folk!!!!
its weird to thinkin abt it though….I live in holland….and we see this celebrated every year…black face, red lips and googly eyes….some how i;ve just come to accept it..and not see it as racist..just plain ignorance.
OMG That is so outrageous!!! I cannot believe that a$$hole. Drunken negro cookies???? In a city like NYC??? He will get whats coming to him?? GTFOH. Sickening.
I guess the baker is really showing us. I am going to use my baking skills to create a racist cookie. Are you serious???
Simply put…i don’t care what color the president is, as long as he makes some progress in this our time of need.
—The name “Kefalinos” has its roots in Greece or Greek origin. The Greeks were the
—masters of the slave transport business. Greek sailors are the known as the best
—sailors…dating back before the Roman empire. They are master ship builders.
—If you have ever gone on a cruise with Carnivale or Royal Caribbean, the captians
—were most likely Greek. Most of the cooks are Euro. The maids are Carribean.
—Cruise ships are very bias and class destinct.
—Okay, back to Mr. Ted Kelalinos, he comes from a race of people who have very
—little regard for people of color. Greeks work well with Itialians, Jews and Gypsies.
—But, blacks and mexicans can do the laundry and serve the food. New York is
—one of the most corrupt, racist States in the nation and possible the world.
—Ted and people like Michael Richard (Kramer) call themselves “white” to hide the
—fact that they belong to one of the major hate groups. Kramer admits to being a
—freemason, which means he probably has strong ties to the shipping buisness.
—There is no “white” heritage! White is a code word for “non-black”.
……Now I’ve seen some ignorant ish in my day, this is perhaps the one of most
…..ignorant. Now, if his bakery was get burned down or shot at, he’ll be the first one
…..to say how ignorant black folks are. But this was to be expected.
……And lemme put on my BIG SURPRISE FACE about the Oscar Grant case.
……When I read what happen, I already knew we were dealing with corrupts cops.
*********WOW!!!!!!!****** Did he think because he offered a bull shit apoloogy that it **********would make things cool. It’s so sad in this day and age that racisim runs **********so rampant! Which is the case in both the bakery and the Oscar Grant case.
Immediately after that report, the baker received several threats. People are even boycotting his business. MyFox NY posted up the follow up story where the Baker apologized and asked for “forgiveness in the spirit of MLK Day”…. I think you should post that up too J.Dakar.
The funny thing about this whole story is that this man is trying to profit of the image of drunken Negros. Yet when the we see drunken Negroes along with shake ya ass fast Suzies on BET, MTV, or any music video or TV show Black people are less shocked, complacent, and damn well supportive about it all by buying into to this image.
I really don’t see the difference between this white man selling this drunken negro cookie in his neighborhood and white corporate music moguls selling the image of drunken hood ni**as to the world.
Both are deplorable however, the latter is infinitely damaging.
Wake up.
I want that cop convicted as well. Im glad I mnot living in Oakland anymore, what has riding the bart come to! I sick of this dirty cop shit.
That 1st story was disgusting.
Something I noticed though was that at the end of the segment…the woman who “claimed” she wouldn’t continue to shop there was shown in the background walking her smiling, merry ass out of the bakery. HMPH.
One thing though #33. WE need to stop blaiming white people for OUR people acting like buffoons & shaking their ass on TV. Responsibility has to start somewhere. We need to get off of the whole blaiming “The Man” kick.
The US has a lot of work to do in the area of race relations. People can hide behind flimsy excuses to express their racism without consequences. Your last post Meat was very impressive. I am currently writing a paper about the embodiment of racism within the English language. The very language we speak belittles the black race. For example, black Tuesday, black day, black as color of death, the word is associated with negativity. When people such as this baker executes the taught negativity of our language, he can use excuses to seem innocent. Note his comparison to Lincoln, and the ominous quote, “He will get what’s coming to him.”
Just one question, What about the threat he sent to Obama, shouldn’t the police be taking that into consideration as well?
Just a question of concern.
`Anyone else notice how the lady who claimed she wouldn’t frequent the bakery anymore was shown walking out of it (smiling & happy) at the end of the segment??!!
isnt this illegal? any implication of threat/harm/harrassment against a public figure is illegal
—-@ 33 *Marie, what is wrong with “shake ya ass fast Suzies?” The last time I
—-checked, everyone from Brittney on down tries to shake it fast! They shake if
—-fast in Rio and India. The dance team even shakes it sometimes on Sunday.
—-Young girls should shake it fast and maybe they won’t end up fat like their moms.
—-I think you’re letting your own guilt and filth stir your emotions. There’s nothing
—-wrong with dancing. You should go to Howard or Morgan and watch the half-time
—-show. They’re teaching fast ass shaking on college campuses all over America.
—-@ 35 Zion, I’ve seen studies done on your topic: black ball, black list, black
—-sheep, blackmail, and blackout!. America is the place to be if you are non-black.
—-One thing is sure, their true colors will come out eventually!
Black folks…these stories are aired so that your black asses know that RACISM IS NEVER OVER! I said this previously, YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH RACISM!!
A black president WONT CHANGE ANYTHING! HE’S A PRESIDENT FOR THE WHOLE NATION AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE ONLY GET 10% OF HIS TIME BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY 10% of Blacks in America (minus those 2% that do not recognize themselves as such *cough* Vin Diesel) !
If you don’t like it…remove it, destroy it or discard it! Just find a way to get it out of your sight! Its simple!
AND ONE MORE THING….
We shouldn’t need to ask for respect…we should simply get it!
Our mothers never asked us to love them, we just did.
Our fathers never asked us to respect their decisions, we just did!
You know why? Because we knew the consequences.
Why doesn’t the black community think this way?
I don’t understand how that grown ass man didn’t think that sh*t would be racist?
WHAT?!?!
That makes absolutely NO SENSE!!
SMH. I am disgusted.
Well….only in America, eh?! I guess Obama couldn’t have come at a better time where ignorant, in-bred, European decended cunts decide to make cookies out of a strong, spiritually sound and intellectually GROWING people…..HE’S JUST ENVIOUS B/C HE’S NOT BLACK NOR COULD HE GET THE BLACK WOMAN of his affections TO LOVE HIM!! and ‘HE’ will get what’s coming to HIM,definitely!
I have no words for the Oscar case….no more words!
I think it’s crazy ppl who GAVE THEIR LIFE to protect a country, had to end up on the streets in the first place and only get HONORED once they’ve died?! Ridiculous!
let me let you folks in on this; see what i mean. and you ol house negro’s that think MLK dream is fullfilled, now you see what i told you. ‘we’s doing alright now’, you’ve got people losing jobs, homes, pensions, life savings. IT IS A CRSIS and who is up on capital aka crooked hill asking for tax breaks tax cuts and CAPITAL GAINS CUTS? why its them theives who have just robbed us for the last eight yrs. and now they send their baggmen; boehener of ohio, and this sen mcconell who are the numbers runners/baggmen or spokesmen for the people who made a clean getaway on jan 20. the REPUBLICANS i can still see that smirk on bush’s face as he is flying out of washington and looking down on the crowd THAT DAY jan 20th. the same smirk he had on his face when he flew over new orleans and told the pilot ‘ you better NOT land this plane’ keep push’n. but he flew to ground zero and had his bullhorn moment on top of that smoldering pile w/ the dead still underneath. now i ask you; AMERICA as bernie would put it. with all this havoc going on in this country who is the only folks that have ponied up to the table DEMANDING tax cuts,breaks etc? when everyone else is suffering. them ‘good ol boys’ of the republican party these unscrupulous gangsters, theives, and money changers. who else can have the nerve to ask for this tax breaks but the profiteers. BOENENER- MCCONNELL , MCCAIN AND THE REST OF THAT PARTY. of good ol boys. hell everybody else is broke or about broke. the day of reckoning is in the wind. for these hypocrites, god won’t let this go on for to long i believe. and while you folks continue to frocklic on ol massur’s plantation living it up. don’t you know that if a pandemic breaks out them folks have got plans in place where they are not going to treat the majority of us. them hospitals will slam the doors shut w/ armed military personnel keeping you folks out. that is why a majority of them white men are making a run on these gun shops buying up anything that will fire bullets. to them good ol boys and gals, i have conditioned my mind and soul while you GOOD OL BOYS and folks arm up and reload, that i will die at the side of the road like my bro’s and sister’s over in africa who are dying everyday w/ dignity i’ll go out like that before i ask you to give me anything. I SEE HOW BLACK FOLKS WERE DID IN KATRINA……… AND ITS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN. while ya frocklic at your conventions and carrying on, gon black folks. boehener, mcconnell, rush ‘rusheeda’ limpbraugh AND PERSONS OF THIS ILK ARE plotting as you sleep that trojan horse will be at your door anyday…… just keep livi’n. did you know citi corp was brought by the saudi’s over 10yrs ago? freddie mac wants more money when its CHINA who are the majority shareholders and hold the notes to freddie and sallie mae. these wallstreet ponzi schemers and them goldbrickers and sandbaggers in congress need to go thats why they resist term limits. for the retirerment ,healthbenefits, and lobbying they get to do when they do decide to leave. how long should this crap go on ……… NOT LONG.
This is stupid.. I wish that the news wouldnt cover ignorant stuff like this. You know this is going to happen…everyone is not going to like Obama, racism is still alive and but showing this…we’re entertaining the idea and creating new ones in other people’s head…
@ #1 this is true, but I think it would be alot worse because damn near this whole world celebrated Obama so if anything happens, that person will have hell on their hands!
Is this really news worthy!?!? Who cares, it’s a freaking cookie! If it was a cookie of Bush’s face you’d all be laughing! And unless it’s actually called the “drunken negro cookie” on the menu then this is all hear-say.
That was ignorant and racists and I hope that they close bakery for good.
——–Lmao, those cookies look pretty good. All those white people were laughing.
——–They were laughing at you dumbass black people and honestly, I laugh too.
——–That’s what white people do; they cite MLK, like the Greek baker did, because
——–they understand that his message was bullsh*t and they can use it as a
——–smokescreen. It is what it is.
——–@ComplexNDope
——–Congratulations sis.
Then he has the audacity to bring MLK into this! I just have no words for this at all. I probably would have respected him more if he just admitted he was racist, but instead he insults everyone’s intelligence by acting like he meant no harm.
@ 33 MEAT Thanks for the Greek history.
@ 36 J*MARIE So true.
—-@54 Toons
—-Yeah, you remember what “Jimmy the Greek” Snyder said in January 1988: ”The
—-black is a better athlete to begin with because he’s been bred that way, because
—-of his high thighs that go up into his back. And they can run faster and jump
—-higher because of their bigger thighs.” He added: ”This all goes back to the Civil
—-War, when, during the slave trading, the slave owner would breed his big black to
—-his big woman so they could have a big black kid. That’s where it all started.”
—-Snyder was fired for this.
—-Then you have the ones like Don Imus, who called the Rutgers women’s
—-basketball team “nappy-headed ho”. There is a common thread that runs between
—-these men so that they think their entitled to make remarks and bake cookies.
—-They list their ethnicity and race as: “white”.
—-**they’re entitled**
I’m not even going to address the baker….
Judah,
Why don’t you just download firefox…IT’S FREE!!
Sheesh…
That goes for everyone else that’s still typing all those extra dashes before each line!!
can’t wait for a black pastry chef to make some greasy asshole greek face cookies…
maybe someone should just get drunk and burn his store down. I wonder how he would like that.
im disgusted..its a shame after the world is moving in a postive direction Glory be to God for Presidents Obama safe transition to the white house yet theres still igorant ppl about.especially in a country like america which is made up of immigrants.
i think the baker is ignorant n close minded and if he didt think he did somthing wrong n its only cos hes gettin negative press, death threats n no more customers thats he apologising which i wonna add was soo fake and insincere.
Ima pray for him n others like him.
watch urselves..black ppl will continue to strive believe me this year its black time!!
i just wanted to add that some greeks are prejudice n ignorant neway. in school 1 boy was extremely ignorant how i was in a gang cos im black n how i must be ghetto.. my mums a doctor and my dads a shipping heir..far from ghettto.
and when i went on a clubbing/raving golidays with my girls last summer, we walked down the strip n the locals wud take pictures and say oh chocolate girls.
they r just ignorant ppl