Stereotypes are everywhere in our culture. One of the most common stereotypes of African Americans is that they are from the south, and that they eat corn bread and fried chicken. In this photo, a African American is "Accusing" a white man of stealing his food, or his fried chicken. The white man, of whom we do not see, is suggesting that he doesn't care about the black man. There is a third person in the photo, a referee, who is trying to calm down the black man. This leads us to see that the black man, who is over-protective of his food, may be poor and not able to support himself.
In seeing this photo, I had a feeling that the black man was angry with the white man. The ways that his eyes are fully opened, and how he is pointing and yelling makes me feel like I would be in danger of this man. There is a point that has to be made about how the white man, whom we cannot see, is standing his ground. If we go back to the Southern United States, we see that many black people have tried to rebel against white people. We see that there is a black man angry at a white man, and this reminds me of the general stereotypes of how white people are above black people.
This image conducts our image to feel that the black community is angry and mad at the white community. It leads us to believe that the black community and culture is filled with poor people, and that they are over-protective about their food and their objects. It also leads us to believe that when a black man gets angry, there is nothing that is going to stop him, except for more black men, hence the refs.
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