That Chicken Foolishness...

I'm not going to post links to the videos, frankly I don't want anyone else to see them. Suffice it to say there was chicken on sale, some places didn't honor the sale, some places ran out, and black folk provided the train wreck type entertainment we're known for...lots of ebonics and neck rolls and statements that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I'm puzzled....there is no store bought, restaurant bought fried chicken better than my granny's!! The fried chicken at the Peachtree restaurant in KCMO is a close second to granny's, but granny is still and always will be champ. Since she's the one that taught me how to fry chicken, i can sizzle a mean bird myself. This lends me to wonder, didn't everybody's granny fry chicken and teach them? Do that many people's grannies not fry good chicken? Yea, yea, I know it's convienent to just pop by the drive thru and pick some up...but it's worse for us and not as good....aren't we smarter than that? Ugh...as usual...i digress...sorry

What puzzles me even more...is how we all decry being stereotyped, yet when situations like this arise, we fall for the foolishness every time!
Maybe this is my old school way of thinking...but I was raised not to act a fool in public unless physically threatened...I can't say I was always able to maintain that standard, but 97% of the time I'm on point. I'm sure SOME of these people, under normal circumstances, are perfectly rational people.
Another thing I'm puzzled by, and forgive me for being the eternal optimist, is how we can still act a fool like this knowing it's being recorded and the footage of you acting a fool is now available for all to witness. The closed-minded right wing white elitists see this and it fuels their fire against President Obama. Even if we don't agree with it, every black person in America is a representation of him to closed-minded white people..why have we not been inspired? Even if we disagree with him politically, his personal accomplishments and dedication to family should make us want to do better. Seriously...there's two wars, an economic crisis, possible pandemic, people are losing faith and killing themselves and others....and niggas actin' a fool over chicken is NEWS?!?! This CAN'T be life ya'll!