NY University offers  Kool-Aid and Watermelon water on Black History Month menu

New York, NY — New York University has issued a public apology and fired their director of food service after students complained that  the watermelon water and cornbread the school was serving during Black History Month was racially insensitive.

Student Nia Harris told CNN she noticed a sign for a Black History Month special menu in the university dining room and was stunned when she saw what was actually on the menu. Ribs, collard greens, cornbread, mac and cheese, yams, and two beverages, watermelon-flavored water and red Kool-Aid.

Harris said "I talked to the cook who told me 'black people put this menu together' and assured me that it was not racially insensitive,"

She emailed the dean of the school and NYU’s President Andrew Hamilton of the insensitive and “stereotypical” meal. She also posted the letter on her facebook page.

President Hamilton issued a statement saying in part, “We were shocked to learn of the drink and food choices that our food service provider - Aramark - offered at the Weinstein dining hall as part of Black History Month. It was inexcusably insensitive.”