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Have you read the posts on this thread. Go and read some of their other posts throughout this board. I didn’t see everyone hear was acting in a racist manner, but when you have people mentioning the people who shoot each other over shoes and mentioning fried chicken and watermelon. You don’t think that is racist or using dog whistles?
Like I said, racism exits from any and all melanin levels, even within similar melanin types. Always has, always will.
Deal with it.
If it's too much for you, stick to more benign web sites or those that are so rule bound they're pretty much just echo chambers.
Have you read the posts on this thread. Go and read some of their other posts throughout this board. I didn’t see everyone hear was acting in a racist manner, but when you have people mentioning the people who shoot each other over shoes and mentioning fried chicken and watermelon. You don’t think that is racist or using dog whistles?
Talking about fried chicken and watermelon without valid context is indeed crass dog whistles. I do not condone it.
But there is a segment of the American populace that do indeed rob and shoot each other for the latest fad sports shoes. Race is not related to it, but culture certianly is.
When I worked at Harvard in the food service department, the staff was extremely heavy on people of colour. Our employee meals were whatever was leftover from feeding the students. One black cook always set aside some of the fried chicken for her son who also worked there. And if he said it once, he said it at least 50 times within my hearing that "no one gets between a negritto and his fried chicken"... so straight from the horse's mouth.
Chinese people love pork over other meats and duck is for special occasions. The Greeks love to eat lamb. Every culture has their favorite foods. In this day of liberals trying to be so politically correct, suddenly we have to pretend that there is no such thing as (black) Soul Food???? And wouldn't it be cultural appropriation for any other race to claim Soul Food as part of their heritage and culture? Even whites from the South aka the Bible Belt don't claim Soul Food.
And fried chicken is a very important aspect of African American culture's soul food.
And in googling "soul food", here is just ONE link about it:
Although the term "soul food" has become shorthand for all African American cooking, it's really only one aspect of it. Soul food is the cuisine of the landlocked areas of the Deep South that millions of African Americans left behind when they moved North, Midwest, and West during "The Great Migration" (1910s to the 1970s).
In a Facebook post in August, Nadiyah Ali, a nurse from Katy, Texas, compared the sandwich to a rival’s: Chick-fil-A’s version, she wrote, tasted as if it were made “by a white woman named Sarah who grew up around black people.” The Popeyes sandwich, she added, tasted “like it was cooked by an older black lady named Lucille.”
Black people were saying they liked the chicken not just for its taste, but also for the feelings of home cooking it evoked. It was the type of chicken they could take to a family potluck and not get a side-eye.
“You most definitely can take a bucket of Popeyes chicken, and nobody’s going to say anything,” said Los, 27, who declined to give his last name as he left a Popeyes in Kansas City, Mo. “They’ll be like, ‘Ah, who cooked this?’ ”
And.... about watermelon, an interesting article from The Atlantic:
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.
Quote:
Slave owners often let their slaves grow and sell their own watermelons, or even let them take a day off during the summer to eat the first watermelon harvest. The slave Israel Campbell would slip a watermelon into the bottom of his cotton basket when he fell short of his daily quota, and then retrieve the melon at the end of the day and eat it. Campbell taught the trick to another slave who was often whipped for not reaching his quota, and soon the trick was widespread. When the year’s cotton fell a few bales short of what the master had figured, it simply remained “a mystery.”
But thought people were fighting over cutting in line or something. Don’t think that’s really about a sandwich. Anytime people wait in line for a long time and someone cuts, that’s a recipe for a fight.
It’s definitely the something else, but that something else is just as stupid of a reason for killing someone. The other day I read an article from my local NBC affiliate, where a guy was leaving his gym after a workout off of N. Bellfort and Hwy. 59 (not a nice area), and this guy cut him off in traffic so he flashed his lights at him and moved on. The two guys in the other car didn’t like that so they shot multiple rounds in this guy’s car. Thankfully he’s alright. But I go to the comments on the story and there were actually a couple of guys defending this action and putting half the blame on the guy who flashed his lights at them. How do you reason with stupid people like that that think they’re owed “respect” without earning it, and will kill you for any slight?
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