NFL: NFL Rookie Gets Fried Chicken And Watermelon Tattoo, Lashes Out At Critics

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(06-07-2011 10:59 AM)Tandy Wrote:  I'm from the south. Fried Chicken and Watermelon are staples in the south. It doesn't matter what color you are - the stuff is good!

I think he's just poking fun at the people who are too sensitive to laugh at stupidity, racism and stereotyping. If more people would remove the "power" those stereotypes have by learning to recognize ignorance as a laughable trait they would cease to be effective and would die out eventually. More power to him for fighting ignorance with "in your face" comedy!

Yeah, a lot of black stereotypes are actually southern. The majority of African Americans live in the South, and it's one of the only areas in the country that has many towns predominantly black.

So, a ton of things that are considered black are more accurately southern. Another large segment of things considered black are more accurately "poor Southern" as the socioeconomic factors we won't get into play in.

Suffice it to say, take a white family or a black family from mid Georgia or Alabama, and there's lots of grits, cornbread, fried chicken, collard greens, watermelon, etc.

And it's all good.