Fox's Brian Kilmeade Asks Black Co-host If She Makes Kool-Aid

[LiberalArkie]

A "Fox & Friends" segment on peach cobbler appeared to get uncomfortably tense when anchor Brian Kilmeade asked co-host Harris Faulkner if she serves Kool-Aid with her meals.

The question was dished out as Faulkner, who is African-American, presented her recipe ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

After Faulkner mentioned that a summer version of her cobbler can be prepared as well, Kilmeade, who is white, asked, “Do you make Kool-Aid?”

As the video above shows, the lively chatter among the four hosts came to a brief halt as Faulkner reacted.

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Note: My viewpoint. I don't know how fried chicken, watermelon and Kool-aid got associated with being racist (I understand it) because it is Southern. So I guess some people are slamming blacks for being from the south? As blacks moved north for the good paying jobs and less segregation they naturally took southern cooking and southern tastes with them.

[yeoman6987]

1. For 24 years in the navy we had special meals for special occasions

For MLK day we did have fried chicken collard greens, and other special dishes. Everyone loved it and never complained. I retired in 2011 so I don't know if it is still done. The lines were very long due to popularity. As far as Kool aid? I haven't had that since I was 12.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. You may not have drank it

but I'd wager that 'bug juice' was readily available on the mess decks.

[yeoman6987]

8. Well that is very true.

[unblock]

5. what was "bug juice"? sure tasted like kool-aid

[Igel]

14. The stuff we had in scouts was made from concentrate.

It was liquid, and already contained the sugar. Just add water.

[Kingofalldems]

15. What the hell does that have to do with Kilmeade's racism?

[UTUSN]

21. When I told an Army vet about Kool Aid, he mock-"cried"

We were trading Vietnam bits. I said we had milk. He said, "You had MILK?!1" I said yes but tended to run out toward the end of the month, whereupon we had Kool Aid. He twisted his face all up and said, "You had KOOL AID?????!!!1"

[louis-t]

2. She should have bellowed "OHHHH YEAAAHHH".

I don't get the connection...

[LiberalArkie]

3. It is my guess if you are up north and want good southern cooking you have to

go to a "soul food" restaurant.

[packman]

6. This is a new one on me also -

Growing up we drank Kool-Aid because it was cheap and satisfied our sugar cravings. Hell, a popular thing was throwing Kool-aide into a punch bowl and ginger ale to make a sickening sweet drink. Seems I recall making popsicles and slushiees out of it. Haven't had it for years though.

[treestar]

7. I didn't know cool aid had any such connotation

I remember drinking it and making it as a kid. It was ten cents a package. We learned to measure how much water went into it.

[TwilightGardener]

9. I didn't know that Kool Aid was racial in any way. I still

make a few pitchers now and then because my college kids live at home now, and it's cheap for them to guzzle.

[xfundy]

10. Kool aid is a black thing now?

Drank it when I was a kid. The modern version is Crystal Light!

As for fried chicken, collards, turnip greens and watermelon, you best not stand in my way when it's being served. Soul food is real food. Nothing comes even close.

[gratuitous]

11. It's not so much did any individual eat or enjoy something

It's the implication that because a person is black, he or she automatically has fried chicken, collard greens, watermelon and Kool-Aid at a holiday meal. At least Kilmeade didn't ask her if she had red drank.

[dumbcat]

12. In my 6+ decades on this planet

I have never heard of Kool-Aid being particularly connected to black culture.

[Fla Dem]

17. +1000. New one for me too. nt

[madville]

13. I remember a Kool Aid reference

In the movie Friday. "Y'all got Kool Aid and no sugar or peanut butter and no jelly".

I'm drawing a blank on a negative racial meaning. I am from the South and have heard the fried chicken and watermelon slurs in my life but never one about Kool Aid.

All we drank growing up was Kool Aid, Sweet Tea, and powdered lemonade, so basically sugar water.

[Igel]

16. It's necessary.

The ill-will present says that the (white) person who asked a (strange) question of a (black) person must have racist intent. The information in () provides the grounds for assuming and imputing racism, but the assumption was already there in the landscape.

Since it had to be a racist question, that means associating Kool-Aid with African-Americans must be racist even if the association was previously unknown (or merely suspected). "Do you have wine with that?" would probably be taken to imply ripple or whatever the current cheap drunken-stupor inducing wine is for skid-row bumbs.

Listen to that sound you hear. Nothing? No sound at all? Really?

Because that's just what a dog-whistle sounds like.

Remember that. Every time you hear nothing, it's a dog-whistle. Or at the very least a potential dog-whistle.

My family didn't have Kool-Aid. (Had trouble getting my parents to buy it.) We had sweet tea instead.

[LiberalArkie]

20. The black people & white I knew way back would have never taken the Fried Chicked and

watermelon as anything but a Southern insult. If you were a southerner both were part of your diet like cornbread, collard greens etc.

[Kingofalldems]

18. I bet he has never asked Ms. Hasselback if she makes kool-aid.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. Doesn't everyone at FOX drink Kool Aid? n/m