On Sept. 18, 2023, far-right pundit and conspiracy theorist Anna Perez debuted her new show, Wrongthink Primetime, on the Rumble channel of white nationalist Stew Peters. During the inaugural episode, Perez reacted to a story about food deserts and the possibility of opening city-owned grocery stores in Chicago by claiming that Black people “love fried food.”

She also blamed her local grocery store’s lack of fresh produce on Black customers because, she says, they refuse to buy healthy food like fruits and vegetables.

Calling food deserts a “made-up problem,” Perez told viewers that “the Left” was “trying to turn this into somewhat of a race issue.” She claimed that Black people are not “the victim” and added that she doesn’t “know a whole lot of Black people that don’t love fried food” — which she said isn’t a “thing that I’m being racist about.”

Perez, who lives in Washington D.C., says she resides in a “more gentrified area,” half of which is “pretty Black.” She said that the produce at her local grocery store “absolutely sucks,” and said this was the fault of Black shoppers.

“And the reason why that is is because they don’t tend to get a whole lot of shipments of produce because people don’t buy them,” she said. “Because the majority of people that they’re catering to are Black people. So why in the world would they waste money on produce — fruits and vegetables — if no one’s gonna buy it? I mean I wanna buy it, but I’m not Black.”

While she admitted she was “speaking in generalities,” she went on to claim that Black people will “tell you to their face that they love fried chicken.” She then recounted how her father, a sales rep in Philadelphia, had offered to get the nursing staff at a “pretty Black hospital” something for lunch and asked them what they wanted.

According to Perez, he offered to buy Mediterranean food, which a nurse turned down. Doing an impression of her, Perez recalled her saying, “You know us. You know what we want. We want fried chicken! We don’t want none of that!” Perez then said that the “idea that we’re depriving the Black community of healthy fruits and vegetables is retarded because they don’t want it anyway.”