Where did the black people/watermelon stereotype come from?

[Cop2BeInDC [JU]]

x2

:datewait:

 

[BirdOPrey5 [JU]]

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.

 

[Avid [JU]]

:datewait:

Who are you?!?! STOP STALKING ME!!!!

 

[storydude [JU]]

Dandelyn... you missed the lets change Amanda's name fun earlier...

Awww. I was wanting to hear some of her fivehead rants.

 

[Cop2BeInDC [JU]]

Awww. I was wanting to hear some of her fivehead rants.

Lol... sorry to disappoint. :windycat:

 

[Tinker [JU]]

Hoo-Hoo makes me laff

Hoo-Hoo makes me sticky

 

[Cop2BeInDC [JU]]

Who are you?!?! STOP STALKING ME!!!!

to take a cue from Trixie...

*stalk, stalkity, stalk, stalk*

 

[skeptic [JU]]

I don't like watermellon either.

 

[Taggart [JU]]

I hate watermelon too btw.

The stereotype comes from the fact that nearly all black people devour it like Church's fried chicken.

So do most white redneck Southerners.

 

[Hedley Lamarr [JU]]

Have some vintage cartoons on DVD from the 20's and 30's, the have black people eating watermelon in them, so it has been around a while.

 

[chronos [JU]]

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

 

[Atl XJ [JU]]

So do most white redneck Southerners.

i must not hang out with rednecks then.

 

[techwrtr2 [JU]]

There is something seriously wrong with you

It comes with being a delight.

 

[will_m [JU]]

Freaks.

I concur.

 

[grigsby [JU]]

1908 Postcard with watermelon theme:

 

[BirdOPrey5 [JU]]

He looks mighty happy... I am jealous.

 

[Stu Pidasso [JU]]

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.

 

[BirdOPrey5 [JU]]

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???

 

[GoldenJeeper [JU]]

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.

 

[Brock [JU]]

I'm growing watermelons in my garden. Honkies love 'em too!