A speaker describes watching meat chopped without a cutting board at a Chinese restaurant in a Black neighborhood, then questions why health inspectors didn't shut it down. The monologue connects food safety enforcement to race and how different communities are treated by regulators.
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believe what I was witnessing. Uh, I, I just— there was no cutting board or nothing to chop on. Since y'all ain't gonna pay attention anyway, and probably y'all, half of y'all eating Chinese food right now, or we'll eat it, or eat it 3 times a week, that's why I was more focused on the couple than I was the man chopping the meat outside. Now ironically, uh, they did not close down the restaurant, um, according to, uh, the health department. There was no wrongdoing going on, being that the Chinese restaurant was centrally located in an all Black, I'm sorry, all African American neighborhood. Mm-hmm. And so this is how African Americans tend to prefer their meat. And if they didn't like it, they wouldn't buy it here. And so they found no problem with the health violations and the codes there and have allowed the restaurant to remain open for service.