Comments on: KFC…I don’t like what you think of the black family! http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/ Freedom to live, love, prosper, and go to the 8am Sunday service to watch football afterwords... Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: kdub http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-86 kdub Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:24:42 +0000 http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-86 You know what is funny about this...I have shares of <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=yum" rel="nofollow">YUM Brands</a> in my stock account. Now that is a trip. (YUM Brands = KFC/Taco Bell/Long John Silver/Pizza Hut) You know what is funny about this…I have shares of YUM Brands in my stock account. Now that is a trip. (YUM Brands = KFC/Taco Bell/Long John Silver/Pizza Hut)

]]> By: kdub http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-85 kdub Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:43:51 +0000 http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-85 First, I fall into the stereotype about chicken. If "you are what you eat" then I'm a 5lb rotissouri chicken, steroid injected, and covered in lemon pepper seasoning... But, I think that the black home without a father in it is a bad thing. If I saw someone walking around with 3 kids I wouldn't think.."where is the dad, she must be a single mom" all I think is..."sure glad we only got 2 kids!". Now if I looked in a window and see a table set for 4, mom, 3 kids, and no one else around then I might think that was single mom. I can't make any assumptions on how someone will interpret this commercial but the subtle message is there for me. First, I fall into the stereotype about chicken. If “you are what you eat” then I’m a 5lb rotissouri chicken, steroid injected, and covered in lemon pepper seasoning…

But, I think that the black home without a father in it is a bad thing. If I saw someone walking around with 3 kids I wouldn’t think..”where is the dad, she must be a single mom” all I think is…”sure glad we only got 2 kids!”. Now if I looked in a window and see a table set for 4, mom, 3 kids, and no one else around then I might think that was single mom.

I can’t make any assumptions on how someone will interpret this commercial but the subtle message is there for me.

]]> By: Sheeba http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-83 Sheeba Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:12:07 +0000 http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-83 It's maddening that any marketing folks would even think to suggest that perhaps only single mothers are the head of black families--but do we see things differently because of our own negative perceptions of ourselves? Example, if this commercial was a white woman, no father, we wouldn't think anything else of it? Maybe we would, maybe we wouldn't. When I watch TV with my boys during the day I see so many commercials of white women at home with the kids picking up juice from the counter with Bounty and the like, and I don't think anything of it. You know that hilarious T-Mobile commercial when the white dad tells the boyfriend getting ready to take his daughter out that he is watching him because they are near each other on his daughter's top 5? I never even thought, where is mom? The problem is we don't question single white parents in commercials because we assume, dad has GOT to be at work while mom is cleaning, or perhaps mom is cleaning up the kitchen while dad sends little Judy off on her date. When I saw the second commercial you posted I was thinking maybe dad was working late--a common scenario in my own home. Let me clarify--I do not in any way shape or form condone negative perceptions of the black community or believe that black fathers are absent, but I do believe that sometimes we are sucked in by the hype. I'm not unaware either--I was once a single black mother myself, but being married to and loving a good black man now, I know that not every single black woman alone with her kids is in fact a single mother. I go out frequently with my three young children while my husband is working, and he works 14 hour days, so it usually is just me and the children. I know that many assume that I'm a single black mother. But it hurts me more to think that my own people would perceive me in that fashion immediately too--it's as if to say they don't even have enough faith in us to believe that we do marry, there are black dads who work long hours, or that there are black women who are stay at home mothers--not just shopping in the middle of the day because they are dodging jobs and collecting food stamps. I'm not excusing the marketers who are making the claim that all black families lack fathers, but I am saying that as black people we need to stop making the same claim because we know better. Single mother homes are indeed prevalent in the black community, but they are not the totality of the homes in the community. Personally, I was more pissed at the stereotypical "black folks love them some chicken" stereotype. I don't even care for KFC myself...sigh. Great post! Certainly made me think! It’s maddening that any marketing folks would even think to suggest that perhaps only single mothers are the head of black families–but do we see things differently because of our own negative perceptions of ourselves? Example, if this commercial was a white woman, no father, we wouldn’t think anything else of it? Maybe we would, maybe we wouldn’t. When I watch TV with my boys during the day I see so many commercials of white women at home with the kids picking up juice from the counter with Bounty and the like, and I don’t think anything of it. You know that hilarious T-Mobile commercial when the white dad tells the boyfriend getting ready to take his daughter out that he is watching him because they are near each other on his daughter’s top 5? I never even thought, where is mom?

The problem is we don’t question single white parents in commercials because we assume, dad has GOT to be at work while mom is cleaning, or perhaps mom is cleaning up the kitchen while dad sends little Judy off on her date. When I saw the second commercial you posted I was thinking maybe dad was working late–a common scenario in my own home. Let me clarify–I do not in any way shape or form condone negative perceptions of the black community or believe that black fathers are absent, but I do believe that sometimes we are sucked in by the hype.

I’m not unaware either–I was once a single black mother myself, but being married to and loving a good black man now, I know that not every single black woman alone with her kids is in fact a single mother. I go out frequently with my three young children while my husband is working, and he works 14 hour days, so it usually is just me and the children. I know that many assume that I’m a single black mother. But it hurts me more to think that my own people would perceive me in that fashion immediately too–it’s as if to say they don’t even have enough faith in us to believe that we do marry, there are black dads who work long hours, or that there are black women who are stay at home mothers–not just shopping in the middle of the day because they are dodging jobs and collecting food stamps. I’m not excusing the marketers who are making the claim that all black families lack fathers, but I am saying that as black people we need to stop making the same claim because we know better. Single mother homes are indeed prevalent in the black community, but they are not the totality of the homes in the community.

Personally, I was more pissed at the stereotypical “black folks love them some chicken” stereotype. I don’t even care for KFC myself…sigh.

Great post! Certainly made me think!

]]> By: Vanessa http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-76 Vanessa Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:22:55 +0000 http://www.web2freedom.net/2007/10/25/kfc-im-going-to-push-col-sanders-down-the-stairs-next-time-i-see-him/#comment-76 I felt the same way when I saw the new commercial. I've seen the same single mother depiction in other advertisements and I dont like it. When I go out with my friends or observe people in my community, I do see far more single black mothers and it's troubling. Sometimes the truth does hurt. Great post. I felt the same way when I saw the new commercial. I’ve seen the same single mother depiction in other advertisements and I dont like it. When I go out with my friends or observe people in my community, I do see far more single black mothers and it’s troubling.

Sometimes the truth does hurt.

Great post.

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