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In reply to the discussion: Fried Chicken Is Soul Food & Should Be Honored And Embraced As Such [View all]HipChick
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KittyWampus
Feb 2014
OP
Is this more of how white people tell black people racism really isn't a problem?
BainsBane
Feb 2014
#4
You know, Soul Food is an interesting subject. Why close down that discussion?
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#11
A friend recently posted pictures of his friends at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles in LA
sweetloukillbot
Feb 2014
#29
So you think Mr. Miller only wants black people to buy or talk about his book
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#16
the history of how it's been used in a negative racist way should also be acknowledged
JI7
Feb 2014
#18
Where in my OP do even vaguely suggest that negative shouldn't be acknowledged?
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#151
This stupidest example hit the national newswire...no scouring was needed.
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2014
#20
You can eat it and talk about --just don't use it as a STEREOTYPE to LABEL African Americans
tblue37
Feb 2014
#63
So when Leslie Calhoun (the NBC cafeteria's African-American chef) tried to do such a menu
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#153
I've come to the conclusion I'm the only person in the northwest who can cook
Scootaloo
Feb 2014
#117
Fuck it. I like fried chicken and when I go to a soul food restaurant I'll order it.
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2014
#22
Nooooooo... "they" are saying, don't expect to not be called out on it when you serve a lunch of
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2014
#36
To be fair. A peak production (and harvesting) month for watermelons in Mexico is February.
Luminous Animal
Feb 2014
#192
I never really cared for fried chicken til my doctor told me that I should avoid it!
TheDebbieDee
Feb 2014
#28
If you're offending the people whose history and culture you're trying to honor,
gollygee
Feb 2014
#31
Hanging around two (awesome) black women could get me in trouble someday either way I put things.
Neoma
Feb 2014
#178
Had there not been many many posts explaining the issue, I might be more conciliatory.
M0rpheus
Feb 2014
#56
LOL! We'll just let today be the example that I find very close to the norm...
M0rpheus
Feb 2014
#66
My 15-year-old son is more receptive to social justice issues than a lot
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2014
#68
"pretending that serving chicken and watermelon wasn't an obvious racist insult."
Kurska
Feb 2014
#84
It is perfectly in keeping with your posts on other issues having to do with diversity
BainsBane
Feb 2014
#74
You don't understand the historical context, and you don't care that you don't know.
kwassa
Feb 2014
#77
Actually as a Jewish person I completely understand food being used to denigrate people.
Kurska
Feb 2014
#81
"It's like a tea party rally around here demographically." More than just "demographically"
Number23
Feb 2014
#108
It's going to be all right. Just be damn glad you don't have to live with these people
Number23
Feb 2014
#102
So, since he's black a loss of freedom must mean he's going to commit a violent felony??
bravenak
Feb 2014
#136
OK, but when someone talks about "losing their freedom", without any qualifier,
Nye Bevan
Feb 2014
#143
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."-MLK
M0rpheus
Feb 2014
#183
Someone thinks that when you said loss of freedom you meant you would commit a violent felony.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#159
Yes, and????? So we shouldn't talk about Soul Food, because of the ignorant?
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#51
It would be better not to assume any particular food item has any particular meaning for
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#52
Adrien Miller talks about the Sunday Chicken- it being reserved for Sundays and best pieces of meat
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#55
Well, the author cited in the OP differentiates between three different "periods" in the making of
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#150
It's *also* fodder for offensive stereotypes, and should be addressed and critiqued as such.
fishwax
Feb 2014
#79
"It's *also* fodder for offensive stereotypes, and should be addressed and critiqued as such"
etherealtruth
Feb 2014
#126
And yet how many DU'ers repeatedly "hammer" those offensive stereotypes and totally IGNORE
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#148
NBC also had to apologize for a menu that included fried chicken and collard greens
Major Nikon
Feb 2014
#106
depends on how it's done, but it hasn't been used in the bigoted way against mexicans
JI7
Feb 2014
#122
The problem I see with honoring black history month with the meal they chose
Arcanetrance
Feb 2014
#131
When racist whites stop using soul food as a negative stereotype against blacks...
MrScorpio
Feb 2014
#138
What I think people are missing is that when this recently happened, the Black Student Union at
stevenleser
Feb 2014
#152