Racist attack!!!

[Sprayber]

Damn. You mean last year at the 4th of July party when I handed a black friend of mine a slice of watermelon, I was being a racist.


I'll remember this next time. One question. Should I be offended when someone offers me some white bread instead of wheat?

[Verto]

I'll remember this next time. One question. Should I be offended when someone offers me some white bread instead of wheat?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Caligastia, just accept that it's an insult in the US and get over it. No, I don't think most Black people would just accept the watermelons. Most Black people would actually take it as it was intended, as an insult.

If they do that, the racists win.

[Dr Strangelove]

If any of you had lived in the deep south prior to the invention of air conditioning you'd know what a seeming godsend a cool watermelon was on a hot summer's evening.

[Verto]

Why Rhett, whatever do you mean?

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Verto
Why Rhett, whatever do you mean?

I mean that watermelon seed spitting contests are the perfect excuse for a kid to take his shirt off. The parents practically beg them to strip.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

When black footballers first started appearing in British professional football teams, the sectors of the crowd most lacking in foreheads would throw bananas at them, sometimes accompanying the action with "Oooo! Oooo!" ape impressions.

A harmless display of animal appreciation coupled with gifts of fruit, Cal?

[notyoueither]

Cali. Buy about 20 watermelons.

Drive down to Harlem and start handing them out.

You might discover that racism can be in the eye of the beholder.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Ron Jeremy
When black footballers first started appearing in British professional football teams, the sectors of the crowd most lacking in foreheads would throw bananas at them, sometimes accompanying the action with "Oooo! Oooo!" ape impressions.

A harmless display of animal appreciation coupled with gifts of fruit, Cal?

Course not. I can see that is an obvious display of ignorant racism, but in the story I posted there was no evidence that the gift of watermelon was intended as an attack on anyones race.

[Q Classic]

i've never heard of it used as an insult in atl...

then again, most of the black here really do like watermelons, fried chicken, collard greens...

the last two are good. watermelons, for all their virtue of being juicy, taste like arse.

[Q Classic]

oh! i know why...

it's racially motivated because they're all americans, and being an old asian woman, she must be one of them vietnamese saboteurs who threw grenades into helicopters and...

[drake]

OVER SENSITIVE BS

[Q Classic]

now that i think about it, most southerners, black, white, and non-white, also like fried chicken, collard greens, and watermelons...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Course not. I can see that is an obvious display of ignorant racism, but in the story I posted there was no evidence that the gift of watermelon was intended as an attack on anyones race.

It is rather likely that whoever set her up to this did intend the melons to be an insult, even if the old woman herself had no idea what it meant.

Caligastia, you know some Black people. Why don't you ask them about the whole watermelon thing? In fact, all of you who don't understand, why don't you do the same?

Q Cubed, watermelons do not taste like arse.

[Dan Severn]

However, racists used to say that Black were nothin' but a lazy bunch of cottin' pickin', watermelon and fried chicken eatin' . . . etc. It's an insult because it is meant to be an insult. (I know, that's circular, but the psychology of racism isn't logical).


Gee, and yet somehow, I've never heard any of those insults, except cotton pickin'. And that's not a racial thing, it's like saying f#ckin'.

Fried Chicken is great, BTW.