Context. The commenters getting upvoted are defending this racist meme by local social media personality and racist idiot “The Kiffness”.
The commenter that got 270 downvotes is the one calling out the racism.
Yes, many people in South Africa are still so racist that they do the fried chicken stereotype thing and insinuate that this is a tactic that black majority political parties use to “buy votes”.
Someone explained to me once that the reason that fried chicken and watermelon are used in racist stereotypes is because they’re messy finger food, that you don’t need a knife and fork to eat, and can leave crumbs all over your face. It’s trying to hint at ideas of Africans being “primitive savages.”