Wait, fried chicken and watermelon are racist now? WTF?
I might as well just give in and start blasting the word nigger all over the place, since it seems like I'm going to be taken as racist no matter what the fuck I do.
"Black people are lazy" is a stereotype, and a derogatory one at that.
"Black people eat fried chicken"... I'm lost. I eat fried chicken. Almost everyone I know who isn't a vegetarian eats fried chicken. And while I tend to think of watermelons more as cheap reactive targets, they also taste good.
That's just retarded. You might as well say "Black people wear clothes!" is a stereotype. "Damn! What is up with those clothes wearing niggers?" I mean seriously, I just can't even type it without laughing out loud.
"Since the Civil War traditional slave foods like fried chicken, watermelon, and chitterlings, have suffered a strong association with racist African American stereotypes and blackface minstrelry. This was commercialized for the first half of the 20th century by restaurants like Sambo's and Coon Chicken Inn, which selected exaggerated blacks as mascots, implying quality by their association with the stereotype. While acknowledged positively as soul food in the modern age by many, the affinity that African American culture has for fried chicken has been considered a delicate, often pejorative issue; While still present, this perception has been fading for several decades with the ubiquitous nature of fried chicken dishes in the US and an embrace of
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I think it really stems from the fact that at one time, fried chicken was considered poor people's food. Here's the thing that these idiots just don't seem to get - poor people's food tastes REALLY GOOD! ;)
I might as well just give in and start blasting the word nigger all over the place, since it seems like I'm going to be taken as racist no matter what the fuck I do.
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Um, they've been part of black stereotypes for decades...
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"Black people are lazy" is a stereotype, and a derogatory one at that.
"Black people eat fried chicken"... I'm lost. I eat fried chicken. Almost everyone I know who isn't a vegetarian eats fried chicken. And while I tend to think of watermelons more as cheap reactive targets, they also taste good.
That's just retarded. You might as well say "Black people wear clothes!" is a stereotype. "Damn! What is up with those clothes wearing niggers?" I mean seriously, I just can't even type it without laughing out loud.
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http://www.soupsong.com/fwaterme.html
Fried chicken:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_chicken
Especially with this sentence -
"Since the Civil War traditional slave foods like fried chicken, watermelon, and chitterlings, have suffered a strong association with racist African American stereotypes and blackface minstrelry. This was commercialized for the first half of the 20th century by restaurants like Sambo's and Coon Chicken Inn, which selected exaggerated blacks as mascots, implying quality by their association with the stereotype. While acknowledged positively as soul food in the modern age by many, the affinity that African American culture has for fried chicken has been considered a delicate, often pejorative issue; While still present, this perception has been fading for several decades with the ubiquitous nature of fried chicken dishes in the US and an embrace of ( ... )
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Wow.
Ok, well, I acknowledge that you're correct, but, damn, that's weird.
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