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re: Football coach fired for allowing students to eat watermelon
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:22 pm to FT
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:22 pm to FT
quote:
And I mentioned why you don't really see black people eating watermelon in public.
I see it all the time. The 2 black guys that work for my dad plant a watermelon patch by one of our farm shops every year and usually give us a couple of them in exchange for some deer meat. They grow some damn good watermelons
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Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:23 pm to onmymedicalgrind
quote:I'm calling bullshite on the hypothetical right there! There is no group of humans conceivable where none of them like watermelon. None!
a group of whites and none of them liked watermelon
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:24 pm to Y.A. Tittle
I don't eat watermelon or chicken amongst a mixed crowd
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:26 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
I don't eat watermelon or chicken amongst a mixed crowd
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:27 pm to StrongSafety
For fear of what?
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:27 pm to tysonslefthook
quote:
Black people find a way to make every facet of our society a racial issue, then wonder why so many white people don't like them and do their best to not hire them.
And there we have it! It comes out!
That's why we make everything about race
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:28 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
I don't eat watermelon or chicken amongst a mixed crowd
You need to loosen up a tad.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:29 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
I don't eat watermelon or chicken amongst a mixed crowd
You should stop being a pussy.
I've been around many black and white folk together before where those things were begin eaten. Nobody things anything of it. It's just people eating popular southern food
The reason we can never move past race relations is because people like you make it about race instead of just seeing it for what it is. It's fricking food. It's good. You eat it if you like it, or don't if you don't like it. The race of the people around you eating doesn't matter one bit
It may surprise you, but white people don't stand around and go "oh look it's a black guy eating chicken, point and laugh hahahahaha"
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:30 pm to StrongSafety
quote:Well StrongSafety, if it means more fried chicken and watermelon for me, I'm all for it.
That's why we make everything about race
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:31 pm to StrongSafety
Some black people most certainly do that. What has come out? What's the gotcha?
If you're assuming he meant every single person of African decent, you're just being pedantic. Everyone speaks in stereotypes all the time. White people are bad at dancing! If it's something even worse than that, it's all in your head. You're being oversensitive (again), looking for something that's not there (again), and ironically feeding into the exact stereotype he mentioned (again).
If you're assuming he meant every single person of African decent, you're just being pedantic. Everyone speaks in stereotypes all the time. White people are bad at dancing! If it's something even worse than that, it's all in your head. You're being oversensitive (again), looking for something that's not there (again), and ironically feeding into the exact stereotype he mentioned (again).
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:34 pm to deltaland
Correction--if it's a mixed group of oeople I don't know, I'm using my fork and knives.
If it's my friends, which is composed of a wide variety of people, than I chow down.
There were smothered turkey wings at work the other day that I didn't touch. But I was eating with 3 other AAs.. One brother devoured his wing like he was at wingshack
If it's my friends, which is composed of a wide variety of people, than I chow down.
There were smothered turkey wings at work the other day that I didn't touch. But I was eating with 3 other AAs.. One brother devoured his wing like he was at wingshack
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:36 pm to onmymedicalgrind
In the first half of the 20th century huge numbers of blacks migrated from the south to the northern industrial centers in search of jobs and took their southern roots and traditions with them. The southern diet is one part of that heritage that lives on. What a New Yorker might call "soul food" would be more familiar to this board as "home cooking" and is more likely to bring up fond memories of Sunday dinners at our grandmother's table than malicious racial stereotypes. The watermelon and fried chicken stereotypes exist but they are very much northern stereotypes and largely meaningless in the south.I'm not going to change my diet or behavior over classless behavior I'm not party to.
At the end of the day, watermelon is still delicious. Also, I'm an a-hole.
At the end of the day, watermelon is still delicious. Also, I'm an a-hole.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:37 pm to deltaland
They reported hearing monkey sounds.
I'm
Not saying people can't eat foods in the company of others. I'm not saying that at all, nor am I saying an all white group can't eat those foods.
But people need to have perspective and awareness. Im not gonna go to a gay bar and say homophobic jokes and not expect someone to have a problem with it
I'm
Not saying people can't eat foods in the company of others. I'm not saying that at all, nor am I saying an all white group can't eat those foods.
But people need to have perspective and awareness. Im not gonna go to a gay bar and say homophobic jokes and not expect someone to have a problem with it
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:37 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
Correction--if it's a mixed group of oeople I don't know, I'm using my fork and knives.
If it's my friends, which is composed of a wide variety of people, than I chow down.
That's not really a "correction" that's basically the polar opposite of what you said.
Thanks for coming clean ... I guess.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:37 pm to StrongSafety
quote:Well, that's a bit better.
Correction--if it's a mixed group of oeople I don't know, I'm using my fork and knives.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:38 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
One brother devoured his wing like he was at wingshack
And that's exactly what you should have been doing, if you like wings. Man, the only bad thing I'd think about you while eating wings would be if you wiped your hands on your pants instead of the napkin sitting by your plate.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:38 pm to shinerfan
It's from that, but the stereotype is from slavemaster depicting slaves as simpletons that could be easily satisfied with "delicacies" like watermelon.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:42 pm to StrongSafety
quote:
But people need to have perspective and awareness.
I contend, we'd probably all be better if we strove for complete and total unawareness.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:42 pm to StrongSafety
I consider watermelon a delicacy, and it easily satisfies me. Traditional Irish, Scottish, kosher food, etc. also has roots in oppression. Lots of cultures were given scraps and had to make do with what they had, and now those foods are staples. And they were demeaned because of those foods. Slaves and slavemasters are all long dead.
This post was edited on 10/23/14 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 10/23/14 at 5:45 pm to genro
I agree.
Open dialogue is encouraged. But I know alot of black people believe if we're at the table discussing these matters, that everyone else has to do a lot more listening than talking and "telling others way to do."
Open dialogue is encouraged. But I know alot of black people believe if we're at the table discussing these matters, that everyone else has to do a lot more listening than talking and "telling others way to do."
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