this video released my inner asian as I realized that chicken is delicious and that black people remind me of how Osama bin laden stole our peoples eyes….in context of course. I mean asian eyes friggin pwn your face off. Whoever does not like this video is literally sexist due to the fact that charles darwin invented the confederacy of the united nations inside of the outback steakhouse in Australia, or as we asians call it CHING CHONG CHEWY BAHH. I am sorry, that was quite off topic mainly because this morning I ate a giant salad made entirely of cereal and milk. I call it captain crunch. As for the others who disagree, we the united nations of america decree that black people should like stereotypes about chicken, i mean what if asians werent made fun of for our way we name children? Wouldnt it be great that I, an asian man naming his child Tyrone “OJ” Simpson after his great uncle Tyrone “Norris” Chuck!? In retrospeak, I hope all of you people who claim this racist be thrown into a pit full of forks made entirely out of mexican food, so you may know the pain you people have caused me.

Reading these comments, I now know why blacks will never raise from the ranks of blind consumers. “Just relax” some of you say. “It’s just fun,” you comment. Do you even know the history behind these lyrics? The lyrics are ok because a black person made them…as if self-degradation is acceptable nowadays?!

There’s a difference between being funny and embracing and FLAUNTING a racial sterotype. What makes this all worse is the utter LACK of anything positive. Where are the songs about liking to eat a classy meal? Where are the songs where we talk about loving and respecting our women and not asking them to be a FB or we’re not calling them hos? Where are the songs where we DO NOT self-degrade? Those are few and far between…and that’s why songs like, “Fry That Chicken” are no credit to black empowerment.

There is indeed much work to do if the mentaility of my young black brothers and sisters is such that they couldn’t recognize negativity if it hit them in the face.

Wow. I was going to say she did this song obviously out of humor but like you said you could not find any humor there. Your one of those “FEW” that laugh at boy scout jokes example “What did the bear say to the bee? HONEY!” stupid right? Now for the “MANY” that actually get this humor when we try to show it to you its not funny because it is as we were telling a joke to a stupid person. You know the type you say “GET IT?” after saying the joke. Ya in blut terms stupid people wont get it. Maybe in two years.

okay. get a life. pleasee.

that video is funny as everrr

Get a real job. It’s funny.

just because it was a black person singing it does not make it racist against black people its for people that like fried chicken i think its prejiduce how some people turn it around and say that the song is used against black people because im sure there are plenty of white people and spanish and asian people tht like fried chicken just as much

What about Ludacris album “Chicken and Beer”? It has fried chicken on the cover and in his video “Number One Spot” (Which is a great song) that parodies Austin Powers movie there are scenes where he is dressed at Fat B (Pretty sure I can’t type the whole name because of what the B stands for) from the movie he is eating a bucket of fried chicken in the music video….

How many movies, actors and comedy shows and skits and singers poke fun at their OWN stereotypes (No matter what race they are) I think the black community pokes fun at themselves and their stereotypes all the time and just certain people get slammed for it while when other comedians and artists get the Ok when they do it and some are great and Classic but when others do it it is Validating Stereotypes and it wrong… If you slam Ms Peachez “Fry That Chicken” that means you have to slam ALL people, famous or not, from ALL races who slam and poke fun at their OWN Race…. I could see the issue if it was a bunch of white folks with black face doing this then you would have an issue..

And comedy shows like SNL and Mad Tv and other shows not only poke fun at their own race but other race stereotypes… I have even seen Dave Chapel poke fun at Asian stereotypes and others besides his own as have other comedians and actors and singers but it is funny and Ok for some but not others…What you have here with all the articles is people that are probably racists themselves and they are saying these things to make themselves look like they aren’t but it really just goes more to prove how ignorant they are…

Plenty of black people that are famous in whatever way… music, comedy or movies and T.V. shows poke fun at their OWN stereotypes from the stereotype that All Black Men being Huge in the lower region, and the one where most Black females have a gang of kids like maybe 4 or 5 before they are 17 maybe they started at 11 or 12, to the one where the only place you see blacks is on the corner selling drugs, and they also poke fun at the fact they love fried chicken… It is just Chicken people…. I am white I love chicken and have no problem with Blacks or the fact that they like chicken just like everyone else…

The video was just suppose to be funny and it has become this serious issue when we need to spend more time discussing REAL Issues like maybe getting Whites and Blacks that are racist to get along and quit hating each other because of what color the other one is…That is an issue ..

Hating a race because of what color ones skin is or the KKK killing Black people is a serious topic but just let Ms Peachez sing about and eat her chicken because she is Black and speaking as a Black Lady that loves Chicken and it is Food and we all have to eat no matter what color we are….

Yeah I don’t get the controversy. I am white I will admit it but a racist I am not. I have black friends and I don’t get the problem? I know stereotypes have black people on a porch eating watermelon and chicken but I eat chicken too and unless you are a vegetarian everyone of us do. It is not like Only black people eat chicken. I saw the newspaper articles on the internet that was saying that if someone other than black people did this it would be stereotyping but her doing it was just saying the stereotype was right. Validating it if you will.

And one person even said she was wrong in validating the stereotype that black people eat chicken. Come on, well don’t you? I know I do and I am white. It is Chicken we are fighting about. Food. Not hanging of black people (Which is a serious topic and wrong) we are not talking about the controversies of blacks ot having the right to vote or a white person saying the N word. We are talking about a Black Lady making a funny video about Fried Chicken. She was having fun with her family eating chicken. Oh and by the way I am not making a racist remark by saying this so please do not get offended because it is not being said to stereotype anyone but I go to KFC and especially on Sunday I see black people coming from church in their pretty dresses and nice suits and stand in line for chicken and what is the big deal. They have to eat to and they like chicken just as much as whites.

We are making out like Chicken is such a hot topic of race and it is FOOD. People get a grip. What I don’t get is one guy that thinks she is wrong called Dave Chapel Great and her wrong because she validates stereotypes. What comedian doesn’t? Anyone seen his show? He does it all the time and I thought if you did it about your own race it was all in good fun? What is the difference in her singing about loving fried chicken and him or any other comedian or show like Mad TV or Sat Night Live doing it? Maybe because she isn’t as big and famous as others? Who knows why Ms Peachez can’t sing about her fried chicken but other black comedians, Movies and shows can poke fun about black and chinese and other race stereotypes and it is classic, funny and OK.

It is no more right or wrong, depending on your view , for one to make a joke or a Skit like on SNL or MadTV or Dave Chapel about stereotypes than what she did by making an all in good fun video. She wasn’t white she is black too like all other comedians like Dave C and Eddie Murphey. On Mad TV they have an Asian Guy that does a skit called the Average Asian.

And all comedy shows do that about their own race so I do not get all this seriousness over a music video about chicken. Where have we come as a society when all we can find to argue about in the race wars is about a BLACK lady making a song and video about Chicken. I say lighten up and wait for someone to cause a serious issue with race to write your articles about. Are newspapers That hard up for a story?

OKay..Akon’s - Smack That, Akon’s - Love you, Busta Rhymes - Touch It, and the song that rebirthed raunchy, the whisper Song (Ying Yang twins)...All the above songs contained lyrics that are completely rediculous (listen to un-edited versions) That’s the true song not the radio versions. And then we get Chicken Noodle Soup and Fry that Chicken.  It’s very refreshing compared to what MAIN STREAM HIP-HOP has come to. Coming from a DJ…Thank you Ms. Peachez…& Young B. for songs that are innocent and humorous in nature.  Because Big Booty, Dub’s, Drugs and Guns..is really getting played-out we need break sometime and Fry That Chicken is good one. We need another silly rap like..ahh Rappin Bill..no, no The Rappin Duke..Duhuhh, duhuuuhh. Duh,ha,ha,ha,huuuhhh.

Dj Brotha Ivan

I think this video is just funny. Period. I don’t no why people are saying this is racist and offending. It’s just funny. It’‘s not like it’s directed to a certain group of people. Learn to laugh and stop being so serious. Everything these days have to be critized for either one reason or another. Just shut up and laugh. Sheesh!

What’s the difference between Ms. Peachez rapping about fried chicken, and Wierd Al rapping about being “white and nerdy”??......I dont see anything racist about either songs, and actually find the songs to be quite funny. You just need to take the fried chicken rap with a grain of salt…I mean, a black woman made the video….if it were white people rapping about it I could see what all the fuss is about. Lighten up people…geeesh!!

I just watched this video and I find it hilarious. I’m not a minority, but I have no problem with this. First of all, it was made by black people. If it were a bunch of white people dressed up as black people, then that would be a major problem.

There is nothing wrong with making fun of yourself. I find “You Might Be A Redneck” jokes hilarious too, and I probably fit most of the jokes. There’s nothing wrong with laughing at yourself, especially when it’s such a gross stereotype.

“If your two best friends are Skeeter and Possum, you might be a redneck”. This is funny to me because my roommate and I already had the nicknames Skeeter and Possum when we heard this. So, yeah, that’s just funny!

This is very shameful.  Even though it has a catchy beat and a nice tune, this is ignorance at its worst.  I am amazed that someone would even put this on the air at all.  Things like this is why dave chapelle left his show.  Things like this is why you havent heard from chris rock in a while.  Only the ignorant will find this funny.  There is a thick line between laughing with and at someone.  I was just waiting to hear the sequel “eat that watermelon”.  Why i am sure plenty of whites and a few blacks even found this hilarious, this is tasteless, if only because they threw children in there who have not yet had a chance to even learn their own culture

I saw the video on YouTube.com, and I was utterly not offended, and I’m black.  I, actually, thought that the video was the most hilarious thing, since so many people think that black people are crack-smoking, baby making, fried chicken eating people.  It was just a silly play on a stereotype.

This video was all in good humor! I have seen it and no where in it does Ms. Peachez talk of being racist or even hint at racisim. In fact one lyric quotes “White meat, dark meat, doesn’t even matter.” To those of you out there that are offended, I have looked for every possiblity of this snog and or video being racist and can not find anything that would point to that. I genuinely believe that this video was made in the same regards as any Wired Al Yankovic video. It was ment to entertain. And nothing more.

Dear Mr. Asim, I say the video by Ms. Peachez and read your article.

Sorry, but a person singing about frying chicken and washing your behind is not as bad as Gangster Rap. They glorify drug dealing, killing and robbing in the community.

Mr. Asim have you seen Gangster Rappers lately? They are dressed in their buffoonery and acting “ignanant” is worse than some person singing about cooking chicken. Wearing long hanging bling. Where is your outrage over 50 Cent and mindless murder and gang violence in other videos and songs? I am a minority person and Gangster Rap, along with drug dealing, is destroying not only our community, but other minority communities.

I believe there are worse things than Ms. Peachez frying up some chicken. Have you seen how many young minority children have been bamboozled by modern day “Steppin’n'fetchin’s” peddling mindless Gangsters Rapper and acting like fools. They are filling up our prisons and not getting a good education because of this new buffoonery.

Now that is a disgrace. Why not write about that?

I think the negativity the author is finding in this video is his own implicit racism.  The video looks like innocent fun to me.  If Japanese made a video where they are singing about eating sushi, would he claim it was racist?  Or would he just think it ws Japanese culture?  Fried chicken is southern black cultural food.  Would the raw fish in a sushi video somehow have implicit sexual meaning to him?  I’m sorry, I don’t see the problem here.  Why don’t you go after real racists instead of wasting time on poorly made amateur videos.

It’s wonderful, I just saw it! I wish I was there with the happy folks eating her wonderful fried chicken, RELAX!

Jabari,

I had of course heard of the “YouTube.com” phenomena.
My teenagers will email me various comical videos
from time to time. Your “Fry That Chicken” report
enticed me to see what was so disturbing. Not that
I’m a sucker for a train wreck but you’re well grounded
and worldly wise. What could possibly upset a man
with Nina Simone in his audio collection?

Well I went to YouTube and watched the video. Not
the whole video, I jumped ahead and found it as you
described and it was indeed disturbing. If you scan
the other video titles that are collected there you
quickly realize this is not the MENSA video vault.
“Fry That Chicken” stands side by side with
“Mom Spanked the Gay Out of Me”,
“Lazydork’s Road Trip and 15 Minutes of Fame”,
“Canadian Thanksgiving Mess” and
“Birth of The Evil Bunny”.

What’s to keep anyone grounded in their racial or
ethnic histories? Everyone, young and old are exposed
to the limitless freedoms of the new media. Every
kid with a picture phone is an “artiste”. Every bigot
with a camera crew and $110,000 got to “film history”
back in 1915. The saving grace is that with time many
voices were heard in the film industry and with modern
media many voices are heard from the very launch of
the technology. ThatÂ’s a good thing.

Take heart Jabari, with most things there is good with
the bad. Collected on YouTube.com with all of the
mindless gibberish, political lampooning, anime epics
and picture phone confidentials, there is hope.
Hope for sanity, subtlety, history, elegance, intellect
and respect. Yes, there are dozens of live video recordings
of Nina Simone. Type her name into the search and you’ll
find she’s there.

“Nina Simone - For All We Know - 1961” is hauntingly beautiful.