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Is Fried Chicken Racist?
May 22, 2013 at
05:50 AM
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Once again feathers are flying because someone (in this case a Spaniard) offered to serve fried chicken to a person of color. Now the offerer of the fried chicken is branded a racist.
Does eating fried chicken somehow diminish one's humanity? Is it somehow bad? If someone offered to serve me fried chicken I would be happy not angry because I love good fried chicken.
If a golfer of color had offered to make paella for Sergio, would that be equally racist? I think one can be an a-hole without being racist. Or if you are an a-hole to a person of color are you automatically racist?
Tiger, to his credit, has not joined this fray. Perhaps the media are the only people who care and fake offense?
"We will have (Tiger Woods) around every night. We will serve fried chicken." [telegraph.co.uk]
Fuzzy Zoeller said something similar in 1997 [latimes.com]
And any depiction of Obama eating fried chicken is racist according to some [dailymail.co.uk]
Does eating fried chicken somehow diminish one's humanity? Is it somehow bad? If someone offered to serve me fried chicken I would be happy not angry because I love good fried chicken.
If a golfer of color had offered to make paella for Sergio, would that be equally racist? I think one can be an a-hole without being racist. Or if you are an a-hole to a person of color are you automatically racist?
Tiger, to his credit, has not joined this fray. Perhaps the media are the only people who care and fake offense?
"We will have (Tiger Woods) around every night. We will serve fried chicken." [telegraph.co.uk]
Fuzzy Zoeller said something similar in 1997 [latimes.com]
And any depiction of Obama eating fried chicken is racist according to some [dailymail.co.uk]
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http://youtu.be/wJ4B7G8Rw3Q
is assuming a person likes fried chicken because they're of color racist? perhaps, even probably.
is assuming a person likes fried chicken because it's delicious racist? probably not.
I know about baked chicken but not fried.
http://youtu.be/wJ4B7G8Rw3Q
Stereotping? Definitely.
Prejucided? Probably.
Racist? I don't think so.
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You would think, but I know differently.
FTFY.