Fried chicken and watermelon everything? Why is it that black people have a better standard of living than the Qing Dynasty people?

In America, watermelon, fried chicken, and grape-flavored sodas are definitely the three biggest taboos for black people!

Don't care if you two have a good relationship, really want someone to give it to send these three things as a gift, absolutely will be treated as a tear, and even will be labeled as racist hat and lose their jobs, into the jail, because in the United States during the plantation period, these three kinds of food has always been the favorite of black people.

And the reason for this, that is because watermelon, fried chicken has become a kind of food culture of the black people in the United States, although not every black people love to eat, but like Beijing people love to eat roast duck, in the eyes of the white people this is the black people's food.

With fried chicken, soda and watermelon, the standard of living for blacks at the time seemed to be really good, but why is this still related to racism? It all started before the Civil War.

Black people eat melon in the context of the times

In the eighteenth century, the U.S. economy is mainly based on the North-South division of the industrial bourgeoisie and the plantation economy, the U.S. manufactured industrial products, not to mention exported out of the country is the land of their own can not compete with the European products, can only rely on the high tariffs of the policy of barely hanging a life, so as not to be replaced by the European industrialization. A life, so as not to be knocked over by the European industry.

But the southern plantations were different, relying on cotton exports and cheap black slave labor, the southern plantation barons jumped to become the richest group of people in the United States. In this way, the North's industrial capitalists are red, why you Southern plantations can lie down easy to make a lot of money, we open factories to do business will have to be careful to worry about the European factories to squeeze themselves into bankruptcy.

So the conflict between the North and the South arose, and the northern bourgeoisie and the common peasantry wanted to abolish slavery and free more cheap labor. And where the Southern plantation barons wanted it, not only did they not take any notice of the Northern capitalists, but they kept expanding slavery into the Western states.

But the number of people in the South is scarce, where compared to the number of people and occupy the North, a large number of blacks have to the North camp to fall, many blacks also chose to join the northern army, the South's plantation economy is also broken, plantation tycoons accumulated decades of wealth has also been ransacked, and part of the people escaped from the South America is also therefore exiled.

Fried chicken, watermelons, and blacks

Blacks were freed from slavery, but the large black population did not have slaveholders to support, not need to find their own jobs, but the North can provide jobs is not enough to meet the huge demand for blacks, so a part of blacks began to plant and sell watermelons to make a living. Watermelons became a symbol of freedom for blacks during this time.

This caused some white people to start to criticize the negative effects of watermelons, and to discredit the newly freed blacks. Because of the low nutritional value of watermelons and their high yield, they labeled this group of blacks who were growing watermelons as ? lazy? ,? lazy, and "inferior". s.

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Fried chicken, on the other hand, is a meat that was consumed in large quantities by blacks throughout slavery and after emancipation. Because fried chicken was so inexpensive, slave owners during the plantation era were always willing to allow blacks to consume this high-calorie, low-priced meat, and by the time blacks were emancipated, blacks who didn't have a lot of money in their hands continued to be limited to consuming fried chicken.

And there's another thing about eating fried chicken, because you don't need to use cutlery, you just have to get on with it, and white people think it's barbaric not to use knives and forks. And this is not, barbarians on the head of the black people, so fried chicken, watermelon has become the black people were attacked point, even now in the United States social networking sites on the people still use this to ridicule the black people.

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Earlier American movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Watermelon Patch featured satirical images of black people with watermelons, but of course Hollywood wouldn't dare to do that nowadays when black people are right.

And grape soda, which was statistically determined to be the favorite flavor of soda among blacks, was later made into a black sensitivity.

Even in plantation-era America, because of the terrain suited to big agriculture, the standard of living for black Americans really wasn't that bad, and might have been a little better than that of the Qing Dynasty peasants in China.

But remember, never bring up black people, fried chicken, and grape soda in front of black people?