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Is Fried Chicken Racist?

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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]
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05-22-2013 at 05:57 AM.
05-22-2013 at 05:57 AM.
Are you really that ignorant to not know what that means?
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05-22-2013 at 07:07 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:07 AM.
is fried chicken racist? no, it's delicious.

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.
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05-22-2013 at 07:16 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:16 AM.
I'm guessing that the majority of people that think it's racist are white people. Although you could say that it's racist to consider this incident racist, since there were no racial undertones to his comment.
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05-22-2013 at 07:23 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:23 AM.
Quote from Count_Chocula :
Are you really that ignorant to not know what that means?
Apparently.

I know about baked chicken Evil but not fried.

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05-22-2013 at 07:25 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:25 AM.
Quote from bonkman :
is assuming a person likes fried chicken because they're of color racist? perhaps, even probably.
I disagree.

Stereotping? Definitely.
Prejucided? Probably.
Racist? I don't think so.
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05-22-2013 at 07:33 AM.
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if the person who spoke of tiger is white, he's a racist regardless of what he said.
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05-22-2013 at 07:34 AM.
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Once the chicken is dead (and fried), I doubt it is racist any longer.
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05-22-2013 at 07:35 AM.
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Once the chicken is dead (and fried), I doubt it is racist any longer.

You would think, but I know differently.
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05-22-2013 at 07:40 AM.
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What is the man on the right holding in his right hand? OMG does he like fried chicken that much?
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05-22-2013 at 07:43 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:43 AM.
You know who loves fried chicken? Everyone.

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if the person who spoke of tiger is not a liberal, he's a racist regardless of what he said.
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You know who loves fried chicken? Everyone.



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