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Can you imagine if a conservative said this?
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OK, here is something I claim ignorance on. I have heard references before, but...
What is the intended slur between watermelons and black people? Must be a regional thing.
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 03-09-2010 at 10:36 AM.
Popeye's TV ads uses a black lady with all the cool urban tics to flog Popeye's .
Where's the outrage?
I disagree
watermelons are delicious
A black man who can't sell watermelons, that's a bad salesman.
If all this "didn't matter" Jesse Jackson and al sharpton would be on welfare. Ahem.
It really only matters if a conservative said this. They're all racists.
I don't understand it either, maybe the conservatives are making an issue out of a non-issue to create the impression of liberal bias? Watermelons are delicious, they shouldn't be politicized.
Also, Dan Rather had a Houston police officer shoot him up with heroin for a story, so I can't hate on him until I get to sit down 1 on 1 with him and get to know him better as a person.
This wino wonders whether watermelons are racially radioactive per se, or whether racial derogation was at work at all in what Dan Rather said.
It is urged, I suppose, that mentioning Obama in connection with watermelons at the very least discloses an unconscious racial animus, if it is not an overt slur.
Short story: I'll take or leave the free psychologizing as I please. It's free. Plus, the fake outrage over Rather's "racist" remarks is not too convincing.
As to Rather's overt slur that the MSM supposedly missed?
There wasn't one.
The thing is, there is some derogatory connotation between blacks and water melons. I just don't know what it is.
Maybe those who made "tea bagger" a derogatory term knows?
I'm guessing it started back when one of the more popular varieties was the ######head watermelon.
New York Times 6 July 1895...
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It doesn't even make sense. Who cares what the seller's race is? It's the consumers. It's not "An Eskimo could sell ice to . . ." It's "he could sell ice to an Eskimo."
So it would have made more sense if Rather had said, "he couldn't sell watermelons to blacks." Obviously racist, but definitely makes more sense. The way he put it makes me scratch my head.
Maybe he was saying, "Obama can't even sell delicious, wonderful watermelons, which practically sell themselves." I don't know.
I think it's more Rather's age than anything else. Not to mention that part of his schtick is including forced colorful provincial metaphors in his reporting. I'm not exactly a fan of Gunja Dan, but this doesn't really merit a racial witch hunt.
Yes, I do agree that had a "conservative" media figure uttered this, it would have been perceived differently in certain quarters.
Still, much ado about nothing.
What is the frequency, Kenneth? is gettin ol' for sure.
But the spoons in the pot haven't created a tempest, yet.
Watermelon is native to Africa.
Slaves ate watermelon because of the water.
Watermelon was an easy crop for poor southern blacks to grow so it was a favorite. Also the same goes for chicken.
Take your pick.
poor word choice but I'll let it slide because he's not a republican
I learn so much from this forum. Chickens are native to Africa, are an easy crop to grow, and slaves ate them for the water.
"derogatory connotation between blacks and water melons"
water melon is cheap/sweet carbs (95% water and the rest is sugar), grows reliably just about anywhere in the US where there were slaves, right next to the cotton ("your cotton-pickin' hands" is racist).
probably all the world's poor raise "free range" chickens wandering around their little patch of property eating bugs, pretty much self-maintaining.
Frying chicken in peanut oil, another slave-region product, was cheap cookin.
same with non-muscle animal food like chitlin (pig tripes), pigs being another cheap, self-maintaining, whatever/garbage-eating food source for the world's poor.
"Chickens are native to Africa"
IIRC, they have been genetically traced back to South Asia aka India
I need to learn how to grow chicken. jk
I agree. I don't think Obama could sell watermelons.
If you were a conservative, you'd be crucified for saying that. Or so I've heard.
that only works if it's original. Re: Rush v. Reid case of 2010.
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