Fried Chicken Is Soul Food & Should Be Honored And Embraced As Such

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116. You're missing the point

Yes, pretty much everyone who has ever put it in their mouths likes soul food (I could pass on the black-eyed peas, personally, but whatever.) Yes, that certainly includes many black people in America.

Where the line is crossed is where a team of white people slap it all together as "this is what black people eat!" Yeah, plenty of them do. Plenty pf them also eat grilled steak, or vegan raw foods, or a fast food diet, or whatever else in the world they want to eat.

That's the problem, where a cuisine is being used as shorthand for racial identity, by people not of that race. Even if well-intentioned it is shallow and can easily be offensive, especially when it is paired with a history of the same iconography being used to disparage those people.

Serving up a soul food menu during Black History month isn't problematic. Lighting the neon sign over it that says "This is how we're recognizing black history month!" is, because of how shallow and brainless it is.