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Fried chicken, a meat product that uses parts of chickens that are “coated with batter and seasoned, flour, and fried” (The Free Dictionary). It is popular all over the world, but is especially popular in the Southern community. However, in the African-American community, this meat product has taken on a racial meaning in the United States. It has become stereotypical for African-Americans to love fried chicken, along with watermelons, cornbread, and collard greens. This new meaning to fried chicken has affected our social community as well. The reason why this stereotype exists in the first place is hidden in history, dating back to the years when slavery was common.

Slavery is “the keeping of slaves, people who are the property of and wholly subject to another, as a practice or institution.” Slaves could be different ages, genders, and races, most slaves being African. Life as a slave was anything but a luxurious lifestyle. One of the biggest challenges for slaves was starvation. They were able to mildly aid this by farming chickens. Chicken was the preferred animal for livestock due to the fact that they were the easiest to catch, breed, and serve. Throughout the years, slaves lived off chicken, which explains why it is a popular southern food, since slavery was prominent in the southern United States region. This also became the root of the racial fried chicken stereotype, made to target the African-American community.

This stereotype still is being used to generalize the African American diet. One person who was a target to this stereotype is Tiger Woods, one of the most successful golfers in the world. Tiger Woods fell victim to the stereotype twice, each by his fellow golfers. The first being Fuzzy Zoeller. In 1997, Zoel...

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...ith Fat Joe, and all I can see is 'Burger King' and 'chicken' and 'buffoonery.' It just broke my heart. I would never just bust out singing about chicken and chicken wings. It hurt my feelings and crushed me for two days."

However, she added, "It was a mistake when you look at it at the end of the day, because people look at it as a mistake. But I did it because I thought it was something that wouldn't come out like that."

The fried chicken stereotype has taken a major effect on the community and the lives of the people within it. Fried chicken has went from a ordinary meat product to a method to diminish and oppress the African-American community as a whole, even those it is not the only race that consumes it. Hundreds of years have past, and we are still on this subject. It, along with the other hurtful and idiotic stereotypes, must come to an end very soon.

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