Apparently chicken was the only animal slaves were permitted/could afford to raise. This association along with the popularity of minstrels led to restaurants such as this:
According to The Marist College Circle To answer this question we would have to travel first to 18th century Scotland, where the Scottish, unlike their English brethren, would fry instead of boil their chicken. Scottish immigrants who eventually settled in the southern parts of the United States continued this tradition, now frying using the high-calorie and inexpensive lard easily accessible on their homesteads. Their hard, agrarian lifestyle made the cheap, high-calorie food a staple.
Fried chicken was eventually assimilated into general southern cuisine, which saw the transference of these tastes to slaves who worked on southern plantations. African slaves who were cooks became familiar with this dish, and even added a few new spices not present in its original inception. And as it had been an economical and highly accessible option for the Scots years earlier, so it was for African slaves who had to use leftovers and wastes for cooking, often frying the cheaper meat of the chickens they were allowed to keep.
Or it be one important missed fact.....
IT'S DELICIOUS!!!
However, Black People MUST stop singing about chicken! It doesn't help the cause by any stretch of the imagination. Just hum a ditty in your head.
In this undated family photo Kendrec McDade, then a high school student is seen wearing his Aztecs Football team uniform. McDade was shot by police after being chased and making a move, reaching into his waistband, according to police. The police were chasing McDade, believing him to be one of two thieves who had just robbed Oscar Carrillo, who had told police that McDade was armed.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office hasn't said yet whether they'll be charging Oscar Carrillo, 26, the man who lied in a 911 call about a thief having a gun. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to talk to him; they’ve requested an immigration hold because he is believed to be in the United States illegally. They can hold him indefinitely, but if the DA's office plans to charge him, they must do so before he is deported.
Kendrec McDade, 19, was fatally shot March 24 by Pasadena police Officers Jeffrey Newlen and Mathew Griffin after Carrillo lied about McDade being armed with a gun. Newlen and Griffin have been placed on paid leave pending the investigation. Some immigrant rights activists are upset that Carillo, who alleges he was the victim of a crime, could now face deportation for alerting police.
Carillo has since admitted that he lied about the gun, but the incident has unearthed racial tensions in the Pasadena community over the police department’s relationship to the African American and immigrant communities.
Two men lay dead and neither Carillo or Zimmerman have been charged .
Trayvon Martin wasn't the first and Kendrec McDade definitely won't be the last. Will it ever end?