In the south it's not only blacks eating fried foods, most eat it. I don't believe fried is bad, it's the fat used for frying. Most people use the cheapest oils, classified as vegetable oil so people think they are healthy. Most restaurants and packaged foods use canola, cotton seed, soy and corn oil. Most people think when they are buying crisco/lard it's still from the hog, nope it's from crappy seed oils. It blows my mind how many people still aren't educated on this subject. Even ice cream and chocolate has that bad oil unless you pay more for the quality products. Nothing will change in America until the companies are forced to change. That won't happen because someone is getting a kick back. Look up heart association story promoting canola oil. I know a family that has three breast cancer survivors and they still don't understand why they got cancer. They believe the doctors, "genetics is why"! They still have margarine in their fridge.