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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Bobaganoosh
I saw this and it was just the wrong clip
not a kfc commercial that they ran.
I'm a witness first hand. TOTAL FAIL.
HILLARY IS A TOTAL LIER! ! !
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Bobaganoosh
I saw this and it was just the wrong clip
not a kfc commercial that they ran.
I'm a witness first hand. TOTAL FAIL.
THE VIDEO IS A TOTAL LIE! ! !
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Bobaganoosh
I saw this and it was just the wrong clip
not a kfc commercial that they ran.
I'm a witness first hand. TOTAL FAIL.
THE VIDEO IS A TOTAL LIE! ! !
originally posted by: HUMBLEONE
I'm sorry but I don't understand why fried chicken and watermelon is an insult to blacks? Who (regardless of race) doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon? Why is it a "black" thing? Lets be serious, fried chicken and watermelon is just delicious! I am glad to see that George Hamilton is working again too.
Where Did That Fried Chicken Stereotype Come From?
But then, Schmidt says, came Birth of a Nation.
D.W. Griffith's seminal and supremely racist 1915 silent movie about the supposedly heroic founding of the Ku Klux Klan was a huge sensation when it debuted. One scene in the three-hour film features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. (The message to the audience: These are the dangers of letting blacks vote.)
Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their desks. And one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken.
"That image really solidified the way white people thought of black people and fried chicken," Schmidt said.
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks.
Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders.
Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.