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I know the connection, but can't figure out why it is negative. I like that food. it's southern cooking.
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Originally Posted by natalayjones
I'm sorry but any adult American who says they haven't heard of the reference to black people and watermelon/friend chicken is either socially retarded or lying through their teeth.
I know the connection, but can't figure out why it is negative. I like that food. it's southern cooking.
I don't really know either, think it might have something to do with minstrel shows where they used to do black face. I remember as a kid seeing a picture of a little black boy, with this big toothy grin sitting on a tree stump barefoot with a piece of watermelon bigger than his head. Back then I didn't even understand that it was a bad thing but I didn't like it.
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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 *****ninnies interested only in such mindless pleasures as a slice of sweet watermelon.
the only reason I can really think of fried chicken being negative, is that it might be looked at as slave food. deep frying was a method of tenderizing the though cuts of meat the slaves were offered. I wouldn't mind someone stereotyping me for eating fried chicken. who got the bojangles?
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Originally Posted by natalayjones
I don't really know either, think it might have something to do with minstrel shows where they used to do black face. I remember as a kid seeing a picture of a little black boy, with this big toothy grin sitting on a tree stump barefoot with a piece of watermelon bigger than his head. Back then I didn't even understand that it was a bad thing but I didn't like it.
the only reason I can really think of fried chicken being negative, is that it might be looked at as slave food. deep frying was a method of tenderizing the though cuts of meat the slaves were offered.
apparently you didn't see the comic joke with lipstick on a pig among others.
Yup, lipstick on a pig when referencing the Bush and McCain economic policies in a stump speech (a simple google would do) had so much to do with Palin...and is an apt analogy for the Obama food stamp...
but oh so delicious. I eat greens too in case anyone wants to make fun of me. whitey eats his greens and he even uses wiley's greens seasoning. that stuff is the BOMB!
but oh so delicious. I eat greens too in case anyone wants to make fun of me. whitey eats his greens and he even uses wiley's greens seasoning. that stuff is the BOMB!
Hey, I like grits, that is if they are prepared correctly.
I post this only in answer to a question I have seen raised. There are some things on the page that may offend but, I offer it only as explanation of the connection to negative connotations
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huh? wha?
