Current Events > I don't understand the stereotype of black people liking chicken, kool aid, etc.

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Who the fuck doesn't???
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQ0zm-njyQ

It's based on the fact that they are cheap foods.

It's stupid, though, because fried chicken is an incredibly popular food item among lower and middle-class Americans/Canadians regardless of race. It's funny because the only time I've ever seen a black guy, an indigenous guy, and a white guy walk into a fast food joint together, it was at KFC.

Dash_Harber posted...

It's based on the fact that they are cheap foods.

It's stupid, though, because fried chicken is an incredibly popular food item among lower and middle-class Americans/Canadians regardless of race. It's funny because the only time I've ever seen a black guy, an indigenous guy, and a white guy walk into a fast food joint together, it was at KFC.

But there's tons of cheap foods. I don't hear a stereotype about them liking instant ramen or TV dinners or hamburger helper or some shit like that.
And year relative to other meats chicken isn't the most expensive but just generally speaking chicken isn't dirt cheap either.
Like shit the last time I went to KFC and got a family meal with a bucket, sides, and a drink it was like $40 and KFC is a trash tier chicken place these days unfortunately. Not saying $40 is super expensive or anything, but there's much cheaper options.
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It's a cheap food to buy while offering some kind of nutritional value unlike ramen noodles.

As for Kool aid. Idk. It's easy to make. I guess.
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Who doesn't like Chicken?
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Chicken posted...

Who doesn't like Chicken?

Vegans
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I dont get why its considered offensive....

i like KFC and watermelons. im white like snow.

so

ssj-ahmed posted...

I dont get why its considered offensive....

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I'd seen references of TV dinners to white trailer park types.
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ssj-ahmed posted...

I dont get why its considered offensive....

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Guess he found his answer
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I agree that those foods are excellent and I'm white.

I would rather drink water than have anything to do with that fucking kool aid douche
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Dash_Harber posted...

It's based on the fact that they are cheap foods.

This is incorrect.

The stereotype of Blacks liking fried chicken and watermelon comes from pre-civil-war era southern U.S. where slaves were much more popular than in the north. Fried chicken is a popular traditional food in the south, and many Black slaves grew up around southern homestyle cooking, adopting it into their own culture (and in turn creating "Soul Food", making it even better than it already was). It's akin to asking why Italian-Americans like pizza so much. Sure everyone likes it, but they made it their own.

As for watermelons, melons were a staple crop during the summertime. Freed/escaping slaves that were heading to the north supposedly took a lot of watermelons with them because it's a nutritious food that's easy to transport, and provides you with a shit ton of water when consumed, making it an ideal food to eat while on the run.
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ForestLogic posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

It's based on the fact that they are cheap foods.

This is incorrect.

The stereotype of Blacks liking fried chicken and watermelon comes from pre-civil-war era southern U.S. where slaves were much more popular than in the north. Fried chicken is a popular traditional food in the south, and many Black slaves grew up around southern homestyle cooking, adopting it into their own culture (and in turn creating "Soul Food", making it even better than it already was). It's akin to asking why Italian-Americans like pizza so much. Sure everyone likes it, but they made it their own.

As for watermelons, melons were a staple crop during the summertime. Freed/escaping slaves that were heading to the north supposedly took a lot of watermelons with them because it's a nutritious food that's easy to transport, and provides you with a shit ton of water when consumed, making it an ideal food to eat while on the run.

So are you saying it's been passed down since the 1800 hundreds?

muchdran posted...

ForestLogic posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

It's based on the fact that they are cheap foods.

This is incorrect.

The stereotype of Blacks liking fried chicken and watermelon comes from pre-civil-war era southern U.S. where slaves were much more popular than in the north. Fried chicken is a popular traditional food in the south, and many Black slaves grew up around southern homestyle cooking, adopting it into their own culture (and in turn creating "Soul Food", making it even better than it already was). It's akin to asking why Italian-Americans like pizza so much. Sure everyone likes it, but they made it their own.

As for watermelons, melons were a staple crop during the summertime. Freed/escaping slaves that were heading to the north supposedly took a lot of watermelons with them because it's a nutritious food that's easy to transport, and provides you with a shit ton of water when consumed, making it an ideal food to eat while on the run.

So are you saying it's been passed down since the 1800 hundreds?

Yep.
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oh look, it's this topic again

if anyone is really interested in understanding why this offensive, google "historyonthenet chicken watermelon."

I would link it but it has an offensive word in there and I'm not sure how the mods would handle it.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

I don't hear a stereotype about them liking instant ramen or TV dinners or hamburger helper or some shit like that.

Because the stereotypes predate those foods. You routinely see stereotypes about lower middle class and lower class people living off TV dinners and Hamburger Helper. Ramen is the stereotypical stock food of poor students.

Maybe you motherfuckers should ask black people.
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The reason the stereotype started is because after black people got freedom they would have farms and easy things to farm was chicken and Watermelon. So the attack came about because black people were bettering themselves..


But the stereotype that African Americans are excessively fond of watermelon emerged for a specific historical reason and served a specific political purpose. The trope came into full force when slaves won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks%u2019 newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people%u2019s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence. This racist trope then exploded in American popular culture, becoming so pervasive that its historical origin became obscure. Few Americans in 1900 would%u2019ve guessed the stereotype was less than half a century old.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/how-watermelons-became-a-racist-trope/383529/
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cjsdowg posted...

www.theatl....

Fake news.
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lol who the fuck would mark the Chappelle clip as offensive?

The whole point of that was "if you don't like chicken and watermelon something is wrong with you."

Tbh i hate watermelon

Tastes like nothing to me and has awful texture
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Fried chicken is Southern food and black people are more numerous in the South. I don't know by what mechanism it became more widespread amongst black people nationwide though (slaves escaping to the North, free men and descendents simply moving north, etc.)

Kool-Aid is a cheap drink and is popular amongst poor communities across the board. Black people as a group tend to be poorer and so all sorts of poor stereotypes become associated with them.

Watermelon is one that's almost entirely out of nowhere. I don't remember the exact history on it but if you googled it you'd know as much as I do.
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Vertania posted...

lol who the fuck would mark the Chappelle clip as offensive?

The whole point of that was "if you don't like chicken and watermelon something is wrong with you."

Lmao you actually got modded for that?
BabbyFAQs
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I don't like chicken because I am allergic to chicken.
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I don't fuck with watermelon but fried chicken is top 5
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Kool Aid is trash, but fried chicken is amazing.
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I could really go for some Kool-Aid flavored chicken right now actually. Not cherry though, that's disgusting...
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ssj-ahmed posted...

I dont get why its considered offensive....

- racist gimmick account who is saying this solely to rile people up
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https://blackthen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ise_so_Happy_Little_Girl_Eating_Watermelon.jpg

Pictures like this that were produced back then to perpetuate the idea of black people being lesser as well as dumb are where the watermelon stereotype comes from

Stereotypes have some strand of truth behind them. They aren't inherently offensive but people can be dicks and start blowing the stereotype out of proportion.
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PiOverlord posted...

I don't like chicken because I am allergic to chicken.

I'm sorry.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

Who the fuck doesn't???

demons
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Microwaved_Eggs posted...

Slip-N-Slide posted...

Who the fuck doesn't???

demons

@Going_Deep_08
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