Might be more life to serving just potatoes on St Pats from that perspective.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fried chicken has historically been used to mock black culture, not celebrate it
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why?
spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
wikipedia has fairly fleshed out histories:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_chicken_stereotype
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I don’t understand that, though…
Fried chicken is fuckin delicious.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 week 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).
Drusas@kbin.run 1 week ago
I think part of the disconnect is that you don't see that same mockery in the north.
arefx@lemmy.ml 1 week 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.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Everyone ate it too. The mockery was because
If you hate someone, anything they do can be something you use to express your hate, even if you do it to.
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah I think this is the big kicker right here.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 week ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Chicken_Inn Black people and chicken was like leprechauns and breakfast cereal for a while.