My history lobe is a bit rusty but after emancipation, black folks grew a lot of watermelon because it was easy and cheap to grow and it sold well. It was a symbol of the time as well as former slaves reaching financial independence. As usual, shitheads will turn any symbol against it’s people as a tool of oppression (see DEI as a recent example) so watermelon was associated with black people in the worst way. Now the racism has died down a lot but to this day some people will say (and think) that black people love watermelon and think of it as a poverty food.
It goes way deeper but that should be the semi-accurate gist.
Kind like an e-pi where accuracy is the name of the last guy to mention how incomprehensible me explanation is.
We’d all be dead if they hated us. We will be by our own act if we don’t stop asking for it.
Narcissism is like opium. Especially when the CIA loads it with fentanyl and shoots you in the head twice, telling everyone that it was your choice to die.
Looking it up it looks like it originally spread from a racist context. Not sure how reliable Know Your Meme is but here’s one of the pages I was looking at. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/finally-synthetic-watermelon
Seen plenty of other bad ones on the Facebook and the Twitter before I quit though.
Wait, there’s a WATERMELON racist stereotype? What’s wrong with liking watermelon? Everyone likes watermelon, right?
There’s also a fried chicken stereotype for African Americans. I think it had some historic context too.
Racists are weird, never mind.
Do racists not like watermelon?
My history lobe is a bit rusty but after emancipation, black folks grew a lot of watermelon because it was easy and cheap to grow and it sold well. It was a symbol of the time as well as former slaves reaching financial independence. As usual, shitheads will turn any symbol against it’s people as a tool of oppression (see DEI as a recent example) so watermelon was associated with black people in the worst way. Now the racism has died down a lot but to this day some people will say (and think) that black people love watermelon and think of it as a poverty food.
It goes way deeper but that should be the semi-accurate gist.
Kind like an e-pi where accuracy is the name of the last guy to mention how incomprehensible me explanation is.
We’d all be dead if they hated us. We will be by our own act if we don’t stop asking for it.
Narcissism is like opium. Especially when the CIA loads it with fentanyl and shoots you in the head twice, telling everyone that it was your choice to die.