If you're not familiar with why fried chicken is a racist stereotype, here's some info below. Yes, most people enjoy fried chicken. That has nothing to do with the fact that there is a whole history of using fried chicken as a racial stereotype. As you'll read, it's connected to slavery and the KKK.
"I asked Claire Schmidt for help. She's a professor at the University of Missouri who studies race and folklore. Schmidt said chickens had long been a part of Southern diets, but they had particular utility for slaves. They were cheap, easy to feed and a good source of meat."
"But then, Schmidt says, came
Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith's seminal and supremely racist 1915 silent movie about the supposedly heroic founding of the Ku Klux Klan was a huge sensation when it debuted. One scene in the three-hor features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. (The message to the audience: These are the dangers of letting blacks vote.) Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their desks. And one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken."
"That image really solidified the way white people thought of black people and fried chicken," Schmidt said."
"chicken was also a good vehicle for racism because of the way people eat it. "It's a food you eat with your hands, and therefore it's dirty," Schmidt said. "Table manners are a way of determining who is worthy of respect or not."
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