Welp, here’s another “black people love fried chicken, right?” mistake.
The cafeteria at NBC served a menu of Fried Chicken, collared greens and jalapeno cornbread in honor of Black History, according to a photo taken by Questlove, the drummer for the band the Roots.
According to the Huffington Post, someone tweeting under @nbcu, who claims to be Kevin Goldmanclaims, NBC’s VP of Communications, said “The sign in the NBCU cafeteria has been removed. We apologize for anyone who was offended by it.”
Fried chicken coincidence? Perhaps, but that Aquafina? Now that’s just racist.
An Austrian [correction: Australian] ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken has led some angry Interneters to accuses the company of being racist.
The ad is part of a series called the “Cricket Survival Guide.” It shows a young white Australian at a cricket match sitting in crowd of black people. Everyone is cheering except the white male, perhaps to show that he is sitting in the opponent section. The white male then says, “Need a tip when you’re stuck in an awkward situation?”
He then pulls out a massive bucket of fried chicken, and everyone starts to grab pieces. After the chicken is shared, everyone seems calmer. He then looks at the camera and says, “Too easy.”
Dallas Cowboys’ Martellus Bennett recently posted a YouTube video depicting an eating contest between him and his brother Michael, in which the siblings race to see who can consume fried chicken, Kool-Aid and watermelon the fastest. In the video, Bennett refers to the contests as the “Black Olympics.”
Due to its exaggerated, stereotypical nature, the video has accumulated pages of argumentative YouTube comments and threads of both backlash and props.
According to CBS, Bennett said that he filmed the eating contests because he and his brother “were like, ‘Man, we eating every stereotype so let’s race and see who can eat the chicken the fastest, drink the Kool-Aid the fastest and the watermelon competition.’ It was all fun and games.”
When asked about racial stereotypes, he said that “That’s something we deal with every day. If we’re able to make a joke about it, it makes it even funnier to me.”
The video has a 4/5 rating on YouTube, and some of the comments include:
“Love this! Tired of a few uptight people making a big deal about everyone being PC these days.. There’s a reason there’s so many hits on here.. its funny!”
“These ignorant fools don’t have any sense of self, their culture, or their people, and, just because they can run up and down a ball field, they get to make fun in this despicable manner.”
“lmao damm yall had me rollin u crazy an that shit madddddd funny”
What do you think?
On an unrelated note, I personally think I could eat fried chicken twice as fast.
