Well, it didn't take long for the Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to cave to pressure from politicians and community leaders in dropping the president's name from its title. Manager Mohammad Jabar, a lawyer and university instructor in Bangladesh before moving here in January, announced that the restaurant will now be known as "Popular Fried Chicken." A manager for the Crown Fried Chicken across the street (where they simply have a photograph of the president on their plexiglass divide) said to the Times, "He used the name. He used black people.” There's no word on if the original Obama Fried Chicken will follow suit, but the Times did find an Obama Beauty Salon where they sell Michelle Obama wigs for fifty dollars. An eighteen-year-old woman enjoying a last meal before the name change saw no reason to get rid of the name and said, "Why not? It’s history. All these stereotypes. People got to relax.”
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