6ohMax
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Nah I'm sweet son
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lol so might i
the thing is my hearts numb ..... I'll feel nothing.
so lets focus on one thing for the next week.
@Trousers
have any of your close friends have a serious painfull medical problem which is playing on your mind ....... AGAIN
UncleBuck
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i believe the whole watermelon thing is a remnant of the days of slavery.
the stereotype that African Americans are excessively fond of watermelon emerged for a specific historical reason and served a specific political purpose. The trope came into full force when slaves won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks’ newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence. This racist trope then exploded in American popular culture, becoming so pervasive that its historical origin became obscure.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/how-watermelons-became-a-racist-trope/383529/
not sure about fried chicken tough.
Blue Wizard
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Singlemalt
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"
fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence"....thats a damn big stretch.
Pretty much everyone who has ever had it, other than perhaps Sunni, loves fried chicken
Trousers
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Some say cucumbers taste better pickled.
Trousers
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I tried to take this to private messages so others would not be subjected to your childish need for attention and your entitlement issues.so lets focus on one thing for the next week.
@Trousers
have any of your close friends have a serious painfull medical problem which is playing on your mind ....... AGAIN
You obviously think I am a sock and are quite obsessed with me.
Why would I make a sock 3 years ago?
Who do you think I am?
Why do you feel it necessary to abuse the ellipsis so?
Why do you let me live in your head rent free?
Why are you avoiding my questions?
UncleBuck
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the article goes on to explain why...
Not that the raw material for the racist watermelon trope didn’t exist before emancipation. In the early modern European imagination, the typical watermelon-eater was an Italian or Arab peasant. The watermelon, noted a British officer stationed in Egypt in 1801, was “a poor Arab’s feast,” a meager substitute for a proper meal. In the port city of Rosetta he saw the locals eating watermelons “ravenously ... as if afraid the passer-by was going to snatch them away,” and watermelon rinds littered the streets. There, the fruit symbolized many of the same qualities as it would in post-emancipation America: uncleanliness, because eating watermelon is so messy. Laziness, because growing watermelons is so easy, and it’s hard to eat watermelon and keep working—it’s a fruit you have to sit down and eat. Childishness, because watermelons are sweet, colorful, and devoid of much nutritional value. And unwanted public presence, because it’s hard to eat a watermelon by yourself.
we imported our racism!
Trousers
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first bite ..... abit of pain right, not much correct
lol
do you want to put your love knife into me?
nobody else is complaining im ruining a socks day just like the sock did 2-3 hours ago to yessica then strangely got de- railed in its trolling anticts with the MAINONE.
if ya cant take it, don't give it.
start shaking
MightyMike530
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UncleBuck
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apparently, the fried chicken thing has origins from the same place as the racist watermelon trope, with one exception.
like watermelon, chickens were a staple of the freed slaves' diets because they were easy to keep and feed. fried chicken is also associated with uncleanliness, owing to its messiness in eating.
but fried chicken was solidified into racial history thanks to a film glorifying the KKK.
D.W. Griffith's seminal and supremely racist 1915 silent movie about the supposedly heroic founding of the Ku Klux Klan was a huge sensation when it debuted. One scene in the three-hor features a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected officials acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. (The message to the audience: These are the dangers of letting blacks vote.) Some of the legislators are shown drinking. Others had their feet kicked up on their desks. And one of them was very ostentatiously eating fried chicken.
"That image really solidified the way white people thought of black people and fried chicken," Schmidt said.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/22/186087397/where-did-that-fried-chicken-stereotype-come-from
Unclebaldrick
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Shut the fuck up Fuzz-Nuts.