In American popular culture, the most effortless and most effective way to make a racist caricature of black people without saying a word is to draw images of fried chicken and watermelon. In other words, in American pop culture, fried chicken and watermelon equal black America. In October 2008, during the last presidential campaigns, a local Californian Republican Party women's club produced an e-newsletter warning that if Obama got elected as president his face would appear on food stamps (a government-issued welfare package which comes in the form of stamps and given to low-income, usually black, people; it can be used in exchange for food at many grocery stores across the country), rather than on dollar bills like other presidents. It then included a picture of "Obama Bucks" — a fake $10 bill with Obama surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon, a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, etc.
latimesblogs.latimes.com/photo…So now, the image of a successful Black American athlete (Floyd Mayweather) is being used in conjunction with.... Kentucky FRIED CHICKEN (of course)! I'm not shocked that this "artwork" was created by someone from another country (Philipino, Art Garcia), people the world over have joined in on taking their racial potshots at Black Americans, I'm more disappointed that some black folk, not only see NOTHING wrong with this racist imagery, but actually find it....FUNNY! Ha Ha! How sad and pathetic! Oh well, Happy Black History Month and congratulations, the joke is STILL on "us".
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