re: Football coach fired for allowing students to eat watermelon

I don't understand. What do you mean? Watermelon is delicious.

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Why do you guys act like the watermelon stereotype is a facade?

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Does this include every application, use, and/or consumption of that product?

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Why do you guys act like the watermelon stereotype is a facade?

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Alright - I'm just going to say it - my father loved collard greens and fried chicken. Although he had black hair and dark eyes, he was whiter than sour cream. I grew up eating watermelon and fried chicken. I honestly believe it is a southern thing.

I mean, the next thing you're going to tell me is that white people aren't going to be able to cook on their front porches or make elaborate, improvised repairs to things, because that would be suggesting these stereotypes are facades.

I'm not saying that black folks have to "get over" everything. Let's talk about the residual effects of slavery - let's talk about the important issues - lingering deficits in black education and continued high rates of black poverty. You know I'm going to push back, with fact-based arguments, evidence, and suggest that black illegitimacy and black criminal activity are 100% discretionary on the part of members of the community. Those are things black folks don't have to "get over" without a lengthy discussion, though.

But, black folks are going to have to get over watermelon and fried chicken. frick it - use me - say, "Ace Midnight is so white, he's clear - and he loves him some watermelon and fried chicken - he'd eat it every day in a perfect world."

Boom. Done. Then we can move on to some real, significant issues - not one an overly sensitive subset of a larger group gets upset about, virtually nothing.