Even thought I am certain there are KFCs located in various parts of Iowa, the 50-year-old personality Flavor Flav (William Drayton, Jr.) probably wants to bring real fried chicken to the region.Of course, when a character like Flavor Flav decides to open up something as stereotypical as fried chicken restaurant in a state that is 96 percent white, the issue of race is not too far behind it.
I don't know what Flavor Flav's intentions are in Iowa, but I am sure this was nothing more than another way to make money and to make sure his name is still in entertainment news. He is not trying to "blacken" white folk, as some people on Twitter mentioned. To even make that assumption is again perpetuating the stereotype that "African-Americans love fried chicken."
To debunk this old and silly stereotype, I have several African-Americans friends who have never had fried chicken, don't like it, and/or are vegetarian, just like in any other racial group. Also, fried chicken is a part of American cuisine (as well as with many other cultures across the world).
All because a celebrity who happens to be African-American and has an uncanny love for fried chicken and decides to open an establishment to a predominantly European-American state does not mean he did a bad market study since they lack in African-Americans. Maybe Clinton, Iowa doesn't have any restaurant that serves fried chicken and people have been craving it for while (duh).
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