Fried chicken, watermelon and everything? Why is the living standard of black people better than that of Qing people?

In the United States, watermelon, fried chicken and grape-flavored soda are absolutely three taboos for blacks!

No matter how good the relationship is, if someone really wants to give it these three things as gifts, it will definitely be regarded as a slap in the face, and even be labeled as racist, lose their jobs and go to prison, because these three foods have always been the favorite of black people during the American plantation period.

The reason for this is that watermelon and fried chicken have become a food culture of black Americans. Although not everyone likes to eat them, just as Beijing people like to eat roast duck, in the eyes of white people, this is black food.

There are fried chicken, soft drinks and watermelon. At that time, the living standard of black people looked really good, but why was it related to racial discrimination? This has to start before the civil war.

The background of black people eating melons.

/kloc-in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, the American economy was mainly divided into industrial bourgeoisie and plantation economy according to the north and south. At that time, American-made industrial products, not to mention being exported abroad, could not compete with European products even on their own land, and they had to rely on the policy of high tariffs to survive, so as not to be knocked over by European industries.

But the plantations in the south are different. Relying on cotton exports and cheap slave labor, plantation tycoons in the south became the richest people in the United States. In this way, the industrial capitalists in the north are jealous. Why can you make a lot of money easily by lying on a plantation in the south? We must be careful to worry that European factories will push us out of the market.

As a result, the conflict between north and south also appeared. The northern bourgeoisie and ordinary peasants hope to abolish slavery and liberate more cheap labor. However, the plantation tycoons in the south were unwilling, not only ignoring the capitalists in the north, but also expanding slavery to the western States.

The south is sparsely populated, much more than others, occupying the just north. A large number of blacks defected to the northern camp, and many blacks chose to join the northern army. As a result, the plantation economy in the south was smashed, and the wealth accumulated by plantation tycoons for decades was looted, and some people fled to South America.

Fried chicken, watermelon and black people

Black people have been liberated, but this huge black group, without the support of slave owners, does not need to find a job by itself. However, the jobs provided by the north were not enough to meet the huge demand of blacks, so some blacks began to grow and sell watermelons for a living, and even watermelons became a symbol of black freedom in this period.

This caused some white people's dissatisfaction, and they began to publicize the negative effects of watermelon to discredit these newly freed blacks. Because watermelons have low nutritional value and high yield, they detained these black watermelons? Lazy? 、? Inferiority? Hat.

Racists gave the White House a watermelon field during the Obama administration.

Fried chicken is the meat that blacks have been eating in large quantities from slavery to liberation. Because the price of fried chicken is very low, slave owners in the plantation period have always been willing to let blacks eat this kind of meat with high calorie and low price. After the liberation of blacks, blacks with little money could only eat fried chicken.

And eating fried chicken has another feature, because you don't need to use tableware, you can get started directly. White people think it's barbaric not to use knives and forks. And that's not to mention, barbarians have been detained on the heads of blacks, so fried chicken and watermelons have become the points where blacks are attacked. Even today, people on American social networking sites still laugh at blacks.

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Early American movies, such as The Birth of a Country and Watermelon Land, used watermelons to satirize blacks. Of course, now black people are right in Hollywood, and they dare not do so.

Grape soda, after statistics, is the favorite soda flavor of blacks, and then it has become a sensitive place for blacks.

Even in the plantation era in the United States, because the terrain was suitable for large-scale agriculture, the living standard of black Americans was really not much worse, and it might be better than that of farmers in China.

But remember, never mention blacks, fried chicken or grape soda in front of blacks?