Fried Chicken stereotype even less funny when you find out its origin.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/22/186087397/where-did-that-fried-chicken-stereotype-come-from
D.W. Griffith's seminal and supremely racist 1915 silent movie about the supposedly heroic founding of the Ku Klux ? was a huge sensation when it debuted. One scene in the three-hor features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. (The message to the audience: These are the dangers of letting blacks vote.) Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their desks. And one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken.
"That image really solidified the way white people thought of black people and fried chicken," Schmidt said.
Schmidt said that like watermelon, that other food that's been a mainstay in racist depictions of blacks, chicken was also a good vehicle for racism because of the way people eat it. (According to government stats, blacks .) "It's a food you eat with your hands, and therefore it's ? ," Schmidt said. "Table manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect or not."
But why does this idea still hold traction, since fried chicken is clearly a staple of the American diet? Surely, KFC, Popeyes and Church's ain't national chains — — because of the supposed culinary obsessions of black folks.
"It's still a way to express racial [contempt] without getting into serious trouble," Schmidt said. (Among the Code Switch team, we've started referring to these types of winking statements as "racist bank shots.")
"How it's possible to be both a taboo and a corporate mainstream thing just shows how complicated race in America is," Schmidt said.
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The movie was very well recieved in its day...Birth of a Nation....just now remembered the title
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It never fails when i'm at some non black party, the first food they offer me is chicken.
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? ass crackas
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True both are synonymous with African American culinary and southern culture though it has more to due with convenience and geography.
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Crakkkas love the bird also. Don't let em fool u
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First known footage of the original ? ?
meh, they was prolly tricked into doing that ? . -
It never fails when i'm at some non black party, the first food they offer me is chicken.
Man shiiiit. My boy had this dinner party a year back, I roll with my next boy, we hungry as ? when we get there but they were still cooking. One of these white people offered me kale chips. Kale chips b. I didn't know what kale was at the time so we bout it. Then this happened...
I wanted to spit that ? out so bad. But I held my own. Whilst hoping there was some chicken in the cut. There wasn't.
Guess what I'm trying to say is there ain't no shame in some good ass chicken. White ppl the ones eating ? up ? . Don't let them offering you chicken make you sad. -
I never got this stereotype cause doesn't everyone love chicken?
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Shut the ? up Will.
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Da Riddler wrote: »
Obama isn't enough it would make me happy if every face in the white house was black. ? would be on c-span passing around boxes of popeyes and no ? would be given. I would be like carry on my ? . ? that fried chicken stereo type as much ? up ? white people eat. people eat weirder ? all over the world . according to dave Chappelle........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQ0zm-njyQ -
It never fails when i'm at some non black party, the first food they offer me is chicken.
Man shiiiit. My boy had this dinner party a year back, I roll with my next boy, we hungry as ? when we get there but they were still cooking. One of these white people offered me kale chips. Kale chips b. I didn't know what kale was at the time so we bout it. Then this happened...
I wanted to spit that ? out so bad. But I held my own. Whilst hoping there was some chicken in the cut. There wasn't.
Guess what I'm trying to say is there ain't no shame in some good ass chicken. White ppl the ones eating ? up ? . Don't let them offering you chicken make you sad.
kale? ? damn! I mix it with fruit to make my smoothies and put it in salad but by itself that ? is dry its like eating a house plant or a tree. I commend them for being healthy but it's a party man. that ? would have killed the mood for me I would have walked out. -
It never fails when i'm at some non black party, the first food they offer me is chicken.
I will be the first ? to accept that chicken too, with no ? given. -
But white people eat pork.
? specifically told they ass not to and they still do. smh -
I cant live without chicken man, giant fried chicken, c bezt, kfc its all good lol.
best are spiced up drumsticks from the oven.
anyone hating on chicken deserves to be shot point blank.
If I had my own country, the flag would have some sate ayam on it.
shame for them stereotypes where yall at. -
? even A&W got some good chicken nowadays...
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Black_Samson wrote: »i wanna know who the ? came up with the idea of batter fryed brocolli.... had to be a white...
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Probably some indonesians
...javanese to be exact, they fry everything over here, from cow brains to carrots, ? is absurd.
mofos offering me fried snails over here, get offended when I decline lmao -
because you eat it with your hands its a ? food?
So hot dogs, burgers, and pizza must be ? too. -
Church's & popeyes is never as full as a chick fil a @ lunch
Crackers will wrap around a whole city block for chick fil a -
earth two superman wrote: »because you eat it with your hands its a ? food?
So hot dogs, burgers, and pizza must be ? too.
Don't forget about sandwiches. -
Im hungry as hell
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