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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Actress Keke Palmer’s company whose mission is to ‘elevate black creators’ funded a show about an Asian girl at a black college called ‘Southern Fried Rice’. She’s now responded to viral backlash against the show from black people who say it's "anti-black" and Asians who are also upset. Let’s react!
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| 0:00.0 | Kiki Palmer's getting flamed on the internet for a new show that she's released with her media company, KTV. |
| 0:05.0 | Now, KTV claims to uplift black voices and black stories, but its new show, Southern Fried Rice, features an Asian girl who goes to a historically black college. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, many black people are upset about this show for a multitude of reasons, so let's talk about it. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, you better. Yeah, you better. |
| 0:23.6 | Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. |
| 0:28.6 | Yes, today we're talking about Kiki Palmer and Southern Fried Rice. |
| 0:32.6 | Yes, I know, a very creative name for a show where an Asian goes to an HBCU, Southern Fried Rice. Now, |
| 0:39.7 | I'm going to get straight to the point here. I just have to watch at least the very first few |
| 0:43.4 | episodes of this show to sort of get my footing on what's going on here and I'll describe it to you. |
| 0:47.6 | The show follows a young Asian girl by the name Coco who gets accepted to an HBCU. Now, of course, |
| 0:52.9 | she's going to be an Asian in a predominantly black university, |
| 0:56.0 | and this causes a lot of conflict. |
| 0:58.0 | She gets there, and while she does feel in place because she is adopted by a black family |
| 1:03.0 | and grew up in black culture, she does experience a bit of conflict. |
| 1:06.0 | And some of the students there not really vibing with her presence, |
| 1:09.0 | one of them being her roommate at the college. The show grapples with black culture and the adoption of said culture by other races. And Coco in the show, I should also note, has a best friend who's a 17-year-old black girl who happens to be pregnant. And she's grappling with the idea of having this baby or not having the baby and going to college. That's really about all you need to know for right now. |
| 1:31.4 | We're going to get into the criticism of this show because I hopped on TikTok and Instagram and I kept seeing video after video of people flaming Kiki Palmer for putting this show out. |
| 1:35.8 | So let's find out why. |
| 1:36.7 | This first one says a show about Southern Asian American women titled Southern Fried Rice. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay. rise. Okay, so no commentary there, but let's read the comments. |
| 1:52.0 | One person says the black and Asian community staring at each other because neither |
| 1:55.6 | of us asked for this. |
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