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President Obama has found himself embroiled in one fried-chicken row after another. First there was the “Obama Fried Chicken” incident of 2009, in which a Bangladeshi immigrant who claimed to ...
Both eateries called themselves Obama Fried Chicken, one in Brooklyn and the other in Harlem, according to the New York Daily News. It has most people balking at the use of the President’s name ...
Brooklyn‘s Obama Fried Chicken is at the center of controversy, again. This time its owner probably won’t be accused of racism, but maybe greed. Though the chicken joint is featured in the new ...
Did Michelle Obama appear on a show whose audience is primarily composed of African Americans and tell them that they needed to vote straight Democrat and reward themselves with fried chicken if ...
The image of President Barack Obama as Colonel Sanders advertising a fried chicken restaurant would immediately be flagged as unacceptably racist, but that seems to be exactly what has popped up ...
This is not the first time President Obama has been used for the promotion of chicken. One Brooklyn restaurant changed its name from Royal Fried Chicken to Obama Fried Chicken, claiming it was out ...
Two New York City fried chicken restaurants in predominantly black neighbourhoods are under fire for putting President Barack Obama's name on their signs. City Councilman Charles Barron said on ...
A recently released music video for "Popular Demand" by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video ...
A Whole Foods supermarket in New York has removed a depiction of President Obama that several neighbors ... to put down black people - watermelon, fried chicken," neighbor Woody Henderson told ...
Rather, and perhaps more shockingly, Rik Cordero, the director, said the "Obama Fried Chicken" owner wouldn't sign the location document unless he was paid $3,000 -- in cash. Click through to read ...