NAACP slams Ikea’s Juneteenth watermelon menu apology as ‘empty’
NY Post
Ikea’s apology for its controversial Juneteenth-themed lunch menu is leaving a bad taste in the mouth of Georgia’s black community leaders.
An Atlanta branch of the Swedish big box store is under fire this week for what employees denounced as a highly offensive “special menu” curated to celebrate the holiday, which marks the emancipation of the last enslaved Americans. “We got it wrong and we sincerely apologize,” Ikea reps told The Post of the problematic menu, which was hyped to staffers as “featuring “fried chicken, watermelon, mac n cheese, potato salad, collard greens, candied yams … to honor the perseverance of Black Americans.”
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