Dang near every culture has a version of fried chicken, it is not just an African American entity:
italians - chicken parm
japanese - chicken katsu
chinese - half their chicken offerings are fried chicken with different sauces
French - Chicken Cordon Bleu
Ukraine - Chicken Kiev
Etc. It goes by different names, but it’s all fried chicken.
I should have said it's a staple in African American cuisine and has ties to AA history. It's just sensitive, white libs who frame the association between fried chicken and AA culture as a racist stereotype. It would be like saying the idea that Italians enjoy pasta is "harmful stereotype."
Correct, it’s only an offensive stereotype if it’s false. “Italians eat pasta” is not offensive. “Italians smell good and are literate” is offensive.
The room isn't rich insular white liberal racists.
Watermelon was brought to the US by African slaves. It is part of their culture. In every African American historical gallery or museum you will find images of watermelon on paintings, fabric, ceramics.
In every soul food restaurant in America the menu will feature fried chicken, ribs, collards, greens, cornbread, mac and cheese, black eyed peas, and grape soda. Pigs feet anyone?
Vices in which blacks dominate the consumer market include menthol cigarettes (Newports), malt liquor and cognac.
Hillary Clinton carries a bottle of hot sauce will just in case she has an opportunity to pander to the black voter. Of course Hillary has never used that hot sauce in her life.
Now that is racist! Now you are getting it!!
I am as woke as the next guy, but we do need to stop insisting that everyone is the "same". Equal should be the goal, opportunity should be the goal, not sameness. I lived in the deep south, yes there is a culture and it its not racist to have a culture. I sat down many times to eat with my african american colleagues and sometimes we ate the standard american diet and sometimes (often) it was precisely what they served these middle schoolers. Because that is tradition. Black people dont want to give up their entire culture and identity. Nor do germans, italians etc... Just be treated fairly and given equal opportunity as best I can tell. Just call it southern food it guess?
What do posters think about Fuzzy Zoeller comments about Tiger Woods?:
“He’s doing quite well, pretty impressive. That little boy is driving well and he’s putting well. He’s doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it. Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.”
Woods had been in the process of winning the Masters by about 15 strokes and the winner gets to choose the menu for the next year’s Champions dinner.
Good for them, way to acknowledge black history and take back harmful stereotypes. Fried chicken does have its roots in African American history, it's just sensitive wokes in the past decades who have made the association a racist connotation. I'm sure that meal would have went over better with the kids than fried chitlins and collard greens.
Good for them, way to acknowledge black history and take back harmful stereotypes. Fried chicken does have its roots in African American history, it's just sensitive wokes in the past decades who have made the association a racist connotation. I'm sure that meal would have went over better with the kids than fried chitlins and collard greens.
Would have went? Seriously?
Really? A thread about food served at a school and some azz clown is worried about grammar? Give me a break.
This happens every few years, at a minimum, and I always have the same question; what foods would be better to teach students about America? To teach them about life in a post-Civil War era, about escaping poverty and entrepreneurial spirit among African-Americans, and also about how racist tropes are created?
I'll link to an article on the topic, that includes the following:
With the Confederacy’s defeat and slavery’s end, early Black entrepreneurship was bolstered by women selling their fried chicken and other home-cooked foods to hungry white railroad passengers at train stops. Likewise, watermelon was a cash crop and a token of financial independence for the formerly enslaved. But white Southerners viewed any modicum of Black success as an affront to their own sense of dominance.
It wasn’t long before grotesque caricatures of Black people with the same foods they used to empower themselves appeared on silverware, sheet music, and salt-and-pepper shakers. Syndicated cartoons in newspapers meant that racist imagery that began in the South didn’t stay in the South. Those renderings also emphasized that since fried chicken and watermelon are traditionally eaten with the hands, Black people and these foods were uncouth and unclean.
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So, perhaps it would be appropriate to serve these foods as long as there is an accompanying, honest lesson about why they are important. But I would think that a lot of white people might consider those lessons, rooted in hard core facts, to be "woke" or "CRT."
All of those are delicious foods but the combination says that they were just going by a stereotype, which is negative not because it alleges that black people eat those three foods in particular but because they were continually caricatured in illustrations, films, tv, and minstrel shows with grotesque images of black people eating those particular foods.
I still remember the first time I ever heard a racist thing about ANY group of people (at least that I recognized). I was in the 2nd grade, and another white kid told me we shouldn't like black people because they liked fried chicken. My young mind thought, "well, I must be black then, because I love fried chicken." Who the f*ck doesn't like fried chicken?
You of all people lectured me that eating bread was like eating sugar and now I find out your diet is fried chicken. Dude…
I still remember the first time I ever heard a racist thing about ANY group of people (at least that I recognized). I was in the 2nd grade, and another white kid told me we shouldn't like black people because they liked fried chicken. My young mind thought, "well, I must be black then, because I love fried chicken." Who the f*ck doesn't like fried chicken?
You of all people lectured me that eating bread was like eating sugar and now I find out your diet is fried chicken. Dude…
1) Eating bread IS like eating sugar.
2) I didn't say my diet is fried chicken. I said I like fried chicken. I haven't had fried chicken in probably a year.
3) Finally, gotta throw healthy eating out the window SOMETIMES.
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