(02-06-2019 01:14 AM)WKUYG Wrote: (02-05-2019 05:09 PM)Kaplony Wrote: (02-04-2019 12:16 AM)fsquid Wrote: Here's the difference, he doesn't have advertisers. Plus, I don't see that as a racist joke.
How is it any different than what got Fuzzy Zoeller in trouble at the Masters?
Not only Fuzzy but...
Quote:Garcia has apologized to Woods after saying at a recent awards dinner in London that he would serve fried chicken if the two rivals had dinner at the U.S. Open. Garcia called it a “silly remark,'' adding that “in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner.''
Still, the comment brought up the stereotype of simple-minded blacks obsessed with chicken and watermelon – a stereotype that dates back more than a century.
I've known an awful lot of white folks obsessed with fried chicken and watermelon. I've heard a State Senator and 3 Medical Doctors in a crowd of wealthy buds discussing whether Crisco was worth using when pure lard put a much better scald on the bird.
Toss in hoecake, fried okra, and butter beans and in the South there is precious little difference in food choices. Even collard and turnip greens on New Year's with fried ham, and black-eyed peas could easily go either way.
We have a restaurant here that is run by women from an African American church and the cost of the homemade deserts and part of the proceeds go back to their church. There is no better fried chicken in this city. They also serve cornbread, black-eyed peas, butter beans, fried okra, and banana pudding. And the lines to get in are very mixed between whites and blacks and all of them love it.
In the South race is not stereotyped by food. I lived for my grandmother's hoecake and fried chicken when I was growing up. That one made peach cobbler. My other grandmother made the best chicken and dumplings and banana pudding I've ever had.
We can play the race card on a great many things, but Southern food isn't one of them.
About the only Southern food I can think of that is more associated with African Americans is chitlins. I've had those too. They are alright, bad for the heart because they are fried, but they aren't anything I'd crave. Up North they once used the intestine for sausage casings so you Yankees don't go getting all oooooue I'd never eat those on us now because you probably already have, especially if you've ever eaten any canned meat. Vienna Sausage anyone?
Parts is parts!
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