It was all simply an opportunity to make a baseless accusation, courtesy of insecure, race-baiting, human tampons.
There was no need for an apology because there's nothing racist about tossing a banana peel in the woods. But also negative points to him because it didn't take long for him to break down and apologize to his fellow students.
#BANANIA RACIST FULL#
I imagine it wasn't easy in a room full of raging frat boys and daddy issue sorority girls. One might even consider plopping banana peels around one's property to deter any college SJWs within a 20 mile radius.īy the way, major props to this fruity dude for having the balls to claim responsibility for littering. Who knew an ill-placed, harmless banana peel could cause so many college students to scatter. In fact, shortly after, many students left the camp because they didn't feel "safe" or "welcome." Too many bananas looming around. Surprise! But discovering the true cause of the incident still didn't stop students from reacting with the fervent feeling of injustice. Yeah, so turns out it was all just an accident. In the midst of the open and heated discussion, senior accounting major Ryan Swanson said he put the banana peel in the tree when he could not find a trashcan nearby. What hateful master of evil could be responsible for such a crime, you ask? Behold, the wicked purveyor of racism steps forth. "That, to me, was a slap in the face to see that banana hanging in a tree. "It was so strange and surreal to see it there," McNeil said. She said that about six feet up the tree's trunk sat a lone, fresh-looking banana peel. she was walking with friends across camp when one of her sorority sisters pointed at a tree 15 feet away. The breakfast options included a fruit cart with bananas. morning, all of the retreat's participants ate breakfast together, followed by a session where they shared their feelings on race relations at Ole Miss. Reminder, we're still talking about a BANANA PEEL.
Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi." "To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred. sent a letter to all campus chapter presidents confirming the incident. interim director of Fraternity and Sorority Life. The students shared what they found with Council leaders, sparking a day's worth of camp-wide conversation. retreat was cut short Saturday night, after three black students found a banana peel in a tree in front of one of the camp's cabins. A few frat folks were trying to have a peaceful retreat in the woods, but all that came screeching to a horrifying halt.Įnter one bigoted banana: This weekend . It's a common problem among colleges (see Oberlin College Students Protest: 'The Cafeteria food is racist!'). Apparently they had a banana peel incident. A racist food crime, if you will. In France the Banania brand is now owned by the newly founded French company Nutrial, which acquired it from Unilever in 2003.Some heated crap went down at Ole Miss this week. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Banania sponsored the Yellow Jersey of the Tour de France. Posters and reproduction tin-plate signs of the pre-war advertising continue to be sold. However, the original advertising has become a cultural icon in France. The form of the character has since evolved to more of a cartoon character. The slogan Y'a bon ("It's good") derives from the pidgin French supposedly used by these soldiers (it is, in fact, an invention). The brand's yellow background underlines the banana ingredient, and the Senagalese infantryman's red and blue uniform make up the other two main colours. Pierre Lardet took it upon himself to distribute the product to the Army, using the line pour nos soldats la nourriture abondante qui se conserve sous le moindre volume possible ("for our soldiers: the abundant food which keeps, using the least possible space"). Īt the outset of World War I, the popularity of the colonial troops at the time led to the replacement of the West Indian by the now more familiar jolly Senegalese infantry man enjoying Banania. Her image was replaced in 1915 with the drawing of a widely smiling Senegalese man. When he returned to Paris, he started its commercial fabrication and, in 1912, began marketing Banania with the picture of an Antillaise. During a visit near Lake Managua, Nicaragua in 1909, the journalist Pierre Lardet discovered the recipe for a cocoa-based drink.
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