This whole Popeye's situation makes me wonder why everybody was mad at Mary J Blige when she did that chicken wrap commercial.
Not trying to be funny.
There is a historical context on why that looked bad..
Look up Amos and Andy..
Al Jolson..
Just like Hammer and that god awful McDonald’s song about chicken nuggets..
Not to mention the shyt Popeyes pulled with Jerry Rice and a rotating chicken mask..
Fast Food restaurants have notoriously targeted the black community..
With rappity rap, smooth jazz and r&b
But look at commercials for say..
Panera Bread or Chik Fil A..
shyt is night and day..
The media(yes Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc) are now considered viable REAL sources of information..
For better or worse..
Or..
To the laymen or for people who don’t look for other sources or actually do fact checking..
The news makes money off fukkery and demonizing whole segments of the population..
You saw that with Cops, America’s Most Wanted in the 80s/early 90s..
You have several huge news station that run on 24hr cycles..
Propagating all kinds of bullshyt to the left and right..
And then you have this era of social media were just certain clips are shown to illicit hype, fear, stereotypes and all other types of emotions..
Which in turn..
Generates clicks that generate the almighty dollar..
That’s what all of this is about..
Money..
But they use black people to move the culture and to make shyt hot..
And when fukkery pops off..
It’s..
“Those uncontrollable savages are killing for chicken sandwiches”..
It’s the same bait/switch they have used since black people arrived to the shores of this bytch we call AMERIKKKA..