I'm rather fond of it myself.

Wazz-epnin', my ghettobrotha from another motha's crizza?

I can do a swell negro impersonation, I crack up the fellas at the lodge all the time.

Haha. Since I actually like rap, I was reading a blog post about 'jigaboo' rap today; this song, one called 'Chicken Noodle Soup' (lyrics: Chicken noodle soup!/Chicken noodle soup!/Chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side!), and some other ridiculously exploitative shit were held up as evidence that black people are buying into some shit that should offend them. Shit, I'm thoroughly white, and that shit comes off as racist to me.

Fly away, white-guilt cracker.

Chicken Noodle Soup

NY Times blurb on updated 'minstrel music'

It can be argued that even though some rap artists appear to make a lot of money, they are really still in much the same environment as a house slave. The cars are rented by the major label, as is the jewelry. Of the actual record sales, artists see little, often not even enough to cover the advance from the label. Labels sign artists for multiple album deals, effectively controlling their means of income for decades. Yet they pretend to be rich; effectively they thank the slave master for giving them...nothing. Black artists typically play into stereotypes; Tupac Shakur was particularly guilty. He attended a school for the performing arts with Jada Pinkett, he was a back up dancer, he was smart. But in his recording career, he is a dangerous black man, shirtless and shouting.

wow

nocal is firing on all 3 cylinders today folks. Although the fried chicken engineers have come up with a pit-grilling chicken grilling innovation of note, this whole sterotyping bidness is 'on the hook.'

how much of a cultural identity is racist though? self-referentialism is not allowed if it fits within another group's sterotype, right?

NEWZ FLASH! JEWZ LIKE PENNIES!!!

Fried Chicken, greens, cornbread, grits, pork rinds, chicken noodle soup with soda and all of that other shit people keep misattributing to black culture are all things I grew up with and see all the time. It's not a black thing, its a poor thing. More specifically, a Southern poor thing. Everytime I hear descriptions of 'Soul Food,' it corresponds to everything my grandmother cooked growing up and my mom still makes today.

Which came first, though, chicken or egg?

On a side note, it's wierd to me how many people who grew up in the North have no idea what grits are, and have never heard of okra, fried or otherwise. (I'm at a loss to explain saltpork, and don't even bring up Big Red or Sun Drop.)

Well try to give a southerner Lox or even a fuckin Bagel. Up until the late 90's these items were from another planet and unkown in the south. Texas, I don't think has Sun Drop, but we do have carbonated prune juice called Dr. Pepper.

I like grits.

I like black people