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Where did the black people/watermelon stereotype come from?

Not that I never eat pizza but I usually don't, if we're playing poker or something and everyone wants to order some pies then I'll have a slice or two... I like it better when it's cold actually.
 

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trixiechick said:
When a mommy swallows a watermelon seed, the baby grows in her tummy and makes her real fat then she pushes it out her hoo-hoo and collects gubment checks and cheese.
There is something seriously wrong with you :jump:
 
Since the earliest days of plantation slavery, the caricature of the dark-skinned black child, his too-red lips stretched to grotesque extremes as they opened to chomp down on watermelon, was a staple of racism's diet. Over time, the watermelon became a symbol of the broader denigration of black people. It became part of the image perpetuated by a white culture bent upon bolstering the myth of superiority by depicting the inferior race as lazy, simple-minded pickaninnies interested only in such mindless pleasures as a slice of sweet watermelon.
 
That's bullsh!t... the book I'm reading on Churchill, one of his commanding officers described Churchill as "he works like a ni****" and meant it as a complement.

Calling slaves lazy???
 
BirdOPrey5 said:
That's bullsh!t... the book I'm reading on Churchill, one of his commanding officers described Churchill as "he works like a ni****" and meant it as a complement.

Calling slaves lazy???
If you didn't whip them, they were.

Look at Africa. All they do is fawk, and kill eachother.
 
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