Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?

Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t understand that, though…

  Fried chicken is fuckin delicious.

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  • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s part of the cruelty. Almost everybody loves fried chicken. But growing up in the deep south, they were mocked for it in nasty ways I witnessed (but don’t feel comfortable describing).

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    • Drusas@kbin.run ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think part of the disconnect is that you don't see that same mockery in the north.

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      • arefx@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes absolutely. I went to high school in the north from 02-06 and took an elective class that was African American history for the first half of the school year and Vietnam War history the second half. My teacher for both was a black woman and the first day of class she asked the class what some stereotypes they have heard of black people were, and of course people mentioned all of them. Whe fried chicken was mentioned she said, and I quote, “No we actually don’t like fried chicken, WE LOVE IT!”. So yeah there’s that.

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone ate it too. The mockery was because

    • they were messy to eat
    • they were staples commonly eaten
    • they were made and sold by black people early in their steps of economic independence following slavery.
    • racism doesn’t have to make sense.

    If you hate someone, anything they do can be something you use to express your hate, even if you do it to.

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    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you hate someone, anything they do can be something you use to express your hate, even if you do it to.

      Yeah I think this is the big kicker right here.

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  • tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Chicken_Inn Black people and chicken was like leprechauns and breakfast cereal for a while.

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Might be more life to serving just potatoes on St Pats from that perspective.

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• just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wikipedia has fairly fleshed out histories:

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_chicken_stereotype

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