White House vegetable garden
A recent Times piece on President elect Barack Obama's kitchen cabinet mentions Roger Doiron:
watermelon on the White House lawn, as Alex Avery tells NPR:
A farmer in Maine is asking the president-elect to plow under an acre of White House lawn for an organic vegetable garden, via NYT.While Doiron (who owns four-tenths of an acre in Scarborough) is more of a suburban gardener than a farmer per se, not everyone appears to be as excited as Kim Severson about the prospects for watercress
"I think the idea to put an organic farm on the White House lawn is as shallow a stunt as is the intellectual rigor of the organic movement as a whole."
posted by Psst! at 5:50 AM
2 Comments:
I enjoy your blog on a daily basis. I find it both entertaining and informative. Today, however, I found it offensive.
Your entry - "not everyone appears to be as excited as Kim Severson about the prospects for watermelon on the White House lawn" - only helps to perpetuate racial stereotype.
This entry is offensive to Ms. Severson as it gives the impression that she made the remark herself. It's offensive to the newly elected first family as well as the larger African American community. And it it is offensive to the sensibility of the millions of voters who put Barrack Obama in the White House.
I hope this was an innocent oversight on your part.
Apologies for the oversight.
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