I could watch hours of disabled people trying hard to do normal things set to a laugh track. I am a bad person.

Pretend you are being ironic and are actually chastising others that would enjoy such barbarism.

"Finally an uppity negro that gets it!" or maybe "A blackman drops the n-bomb and doesn't recoil in horror at racist stereotypes, that means it's ok for me to use those things too!"

"AH'M IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, INVOLVED IN ANY NIGGERDOM!"

I'd argue this video is targeted at primarily two audiences: the "simple" folks in the black community and those who support, encourage, and perpetuate the behaviors of the "simple" folks and the stereotypes created therein.

Message aside, he is pretty buff.

Um.. I'm not going to google "was nigger family on upn" at work but I'm about 200% sure that this is homemade. It's not very hard to put a watermark on the bottom of a video, and unless it goes super-viral which this one hasn't since 2011, UPN probably either hasn't heard about it or won't take the time to address it or take it down. In fact, an action doing so would prove the video's point. Also Chapelle did something like this on an episode years ago oh yeah it was called "Nigger Family." A nice 50s-esque sitcom parody where the patriarch's name just happens to be "Nigger." It'd be interesting if this actually was on some UPN variety show, addressing their core audience, like the way Fox used to make fun of how Rupert Murdoch was going to kill them or something, but it's not going to happen.

Ugh.. this is way more times than I thought I'd say the n-word. I guess it does kind of remind me of sketches that In Living Color would have wanted to do, or at least hinted at, like Jeopardy but all the questions being about "you mamma" or "some specific black guy that every black guy knows" something like that, ending with a diss-off between Ed O'Neil and Jamie Foxx. But a lot's changed since In Living Color.

I think the first show to use "nigger" was All in the Family, where George Jefferson gets all reverse-racist because he found out daughter's fiancee's parents are interracial, something like that.. anyway the word comes out, and Archie has to be the one to calm everything down. After the first episode, it was either censored or just cut completely, which kind of defeats the purpose of the word. It's a strong word but not like any of George Carlin's 7.

When they started showing the episode uncut again it was like "Ooh uncensored where Jefferson says 'nigger'" like it was the episode of South Park where they could first say "shit," almost like a celebration. Same with Boondocks where it was like "woah they can say nigger. That's uhh.." but it raised many topics and did a good job of not doing it in an exploitative (*cough until this current season cough*)

Those can be defended. But this is almost like Tarantino making a Pulp Fiction spinoff called "Dead Nigger Storage Wars"

If it's any consolation, all Northern food comes from better countries. I take that back, we all love pizza with absolutely no toppings that costs twice as much.

I might be paraphrasing a bit, but there was a very candid interview on NPR not too long ago where they explored the age old question that everyone's afraid to ask, "why fried chicken and watermelon?" A lot of it is due to the fact that chicken is of course cheaper than beef, but also due to the fact that extra utensils don't have to be used, like a fork with a steak or chopsticks with noodles. The watermelon thing just came along, since it's on the same level of hand-holdability.

Of course this is still awful to think about, but that's pretty much it: Chicken tastes good so people eat it. The "meme" (?) I think started with very early film. Suffice it to say, black people weren't going to the movies, and a lot of the white people hadn't seen a black person in real life. So the movies would depict the slave owners as enjoying a candle-lit dinner with some sort of beef product and then cut to the slaves eating chicken and watermelons. "Oh so that's what they eat." It's really about the same as "All people in New England prefer the white kind of Clam Chowder over the red one." Since poultry was part of the diet, black people got generally better at making it.

A joke like "chowdah" on the Simpsons is of course fine though because.. well everything. I could see the Boondocks tackling this topic correctly, because it would probably be addressed in the way above. Chappelle Show was also able to pull it off. This is just kind of like.. I don't know it's not funny and not proving anything more than this Popeyes commercial I saw passive-aggressively watching the Oklahoma City game : Instead of the one black spokeslady it was 3 of them, like clones, immediately followed by that Progressive commercial with the cute white girl.

I almost accidentally got in trouble because I was talking about hip hop and how I don't think the sketches on albums like Tha Carter III or any Wu Tang album ever are very funny.. and she was like "so not even In Living Color or Chappelle's Show?" And I was like "NO NO NO NO NO! Just the little sketches that break up the album!!!" This kind of reminds me of one of those.

Who the fuck doesn't like watermelon and fried chicken?

Me. I'm vegan and I just don't like watermelon.

In general the vast majority of people in the world like chicken and/or watermelon so making fun of a specific group of people for enjoying food that is beloved worldwide is like making fun of the british for enjoying the taste of sugar.

As previously stated the origin of such things can be pretty complex but to a modern foreigner like myself that is how it appears.

I'm vegan too, but I'll eat the shit outta some watermelon.

As a Canadian, I'm way more confused by chicken and waffles. Can't grasp how these go together.

All you need to grasp is some chicken and waffles bro.


and some syrup too.

Recently there was this BBQ place by my house that started putting out a sign that simply said "No Small Plates." Which is funny because the majority of new restaurants on the block advertise small plates. It's a nationally-renowned BBQ place but some of the backlash was like "The owner's not even black. What's he doing with a BBQ place in the whitest city in the whitest neighborhood in town!?" My question is "why does it matter?" My family's Australian and no they do not drink Fosters and eat shrimp on the barbie. My mom and dad are from Wisconsin and no they didn't disown me when I stopped eating cheese. My heritage is Norwegian and.. well I don't know. Besides deserts, Norwegian food's pretty godawful.

The worst kind of racism is the kind where.. I think it was Churches (maybe Popeyes?) where someone had the grand idea to make everyone eating and working there Caucasian or Asian, as if to say "it's ok, the water's fine!"

The chicken and waffles thing didn't make a lot of sense to me either. Then again I grew up in Portland and there was only one place that I knew of that did 'em in Milwaukee. It's a very Southern thing. But in a lot of ways there's something to be said about something as simple as dipping your sausage in syrup. Anything savory tastes pretty good with something sweet, like chocolate bacon. A new one opened up by my house and it's called "Son of a Biscuit" (ugh) but I guess they have a vegan kind so I'm going to give it a shot. Usually I avoid those vegan options like Tofurky Jerkey or sausage where it's like "relive the halcyon days when you weren't vegan" and try to recreate the texture, etc. For me anyway it's like.. "I gave this up so I wouldn't remember what eating it was like" and instead opting for more interesting choices like curries and whatnot.

I actually take that back. Watermelon with Feta cheese on the top is really good. I just don't eat cheese and if there's ever a good vegan substitute for Feta Cheese in my lifetime, I'll probably eat watermelon again. As a kid we'd always put salt on the watermelon too, which a lot of people thought was weird so I stopped doing it. Now it's like, pretty much used for parties. Take a watermelon and make a hole in it and pour vodka right in there and eat the watermelon. That's one thing that the life-hack cheap vodka guy missed :)

...aaaaand with that, I am the whitest person ever.

I would recommend grilled watermelon to all you watermelon fans out there.

Cut the melon into quarters. Cut the quarters into 1/4" to 1/2" thick slices and cut off the rind. Lightly salt the wedges and place on a rack where the excess liquid can run off but don't let them sit so long they dry out. Give them a quick rinse. Pat them dry with paper towels and brush with olive oil. Give them a light sprinkle of black pepper and grill those babies up.

It's sweet, savory and heavenly.

Probably cause it's exotic and America has a long history of dealing with mass slavery from that specific part of the world. Just my guess.