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Is Fried Chicken Racist?

2,651 476 May 22, 2013 at 05:50 AM in News (2) Los Angeles Times
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 07:54 AM.
05-22-2013 at 07:54 AM.
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Would it have been that much work to use an animated gif? Annoyed

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05-22-2013 at 07:56 AM.
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Would it have been that much work to use an animated gif? Annoyed

Dontknow the one i'm looking at is animated.
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05-22-2013 at 07:58 AM.
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Dontknow the one i'm looking at is animated.
How you do that? It's a jpg
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05-22-2013 at 07:58 AM.
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Would it have been that much work to use an animated gif? Annoyed
was just about to post the animated one myself laugh out loud
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05-22-2013 at 08:00 AM.
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How you do that? It's a jpg
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Is that some sort of secret government code talk? Cold
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Is that some sort of secret government code talk? Cold
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05-22-2013 at 09:08 AM.
05-22-2013 at 09:08 AM.
What if I like fried chicken and my coffee black? What am I?
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05-22-2013 at 10:19 AM.
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Blocked at work.
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05-22-2013 at 10:48 AM.
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What if I like fried chicken and my coffee black? What am I?
Weird for liking your fried chicken black?
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z2g
05-22-2013 at 10:55 AM.
05-22-2013 at 10:55 AM.
OP,
Come on now. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when a person make a crack about having an African-American over for fried chicken and watermelon, it's a racist comment. Because, it's a stereotype.
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05-22-2013 at 11:01 AM.
05-22-2013 at 11:01 AM.
Laila Ali was just on Chopped All-Stars not too long ago... I can't deny that I laughed when she overcooked a meat and the judges called her out on it, she replied something along the lines of "a lot of the people I know are black, and they like their steaks well done"
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05-22-2013 at 11:06 AM.
05-22-2013 at 11:06 AM.
Quote from z2g :
OP,
Come on now. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when a person make a crack about having an African-American over for fried chicken and watermelon, it's a racist comment. Because, it's a stereotype.
But what if I was actually having a black person over for fried chicken and watermelon, and that's what the black person requested, then that would make you the racist for casting the accusation.
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