White people hating on watermelon is like the most white people thing ever. Watermelon is fucking delicious.
The weird thing is no one ever says watermelon or fried chicken is gross. Yet people will use Black people eating them as a pejorative. It never made sense to me.
It’s like the joke You know who loves fried chicken? Black people You know who else loves fried chicken? Literally every fucking body else We may love it more because we can season it, but then I have every poster from the south defending their fried chickening ability.
I was getting irrationally angry thinking you were insulting my mom's fried chicken, just reading this.
way predates that. See the Ice Cream Truck Song for reference. (most ice cream truck songs come from minstrel songs, tbqh)
My dad has shit like this in his office and it makes me irrationally angry. Thankfully I don’t live there so no one in my personal or professional life connects me to that shit. I’m burning that shit at the first opportunity. Those things don’t even belong in a museum.
This may be a hot take, but stuff like that DOES belong in a museum. Important we dont forget how people are/were treated with stuff like this. It DOES NOT belong anywhere outside of a museum where it can be celebrated or seen as a valuable collectable.
there is a whole weird crypto bro thing about seed oils https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7djay/the-newest-bitcoin-diet-trend-is-hating-seed-oils my brother avoids seed oils and now I am sure he heard it from some terrible chudy source
It's not something that I've seen on a daily basis down here. But the watermelon trope is one of those things that I remember learning super young. I definitely hesitate to eat the stuff in a public setting.
Buying caricature figurines and displaying them in your house because you're racist is a weird way to show you're racist. "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE SO MUCH I BOUGHT A STATUE OF ONE."
I know. Lots of things are. I fact he got so much push back on that specifically was weird. As if there's a weird right wing thing about it.
I remember eating pancakes here as a young kid Sambo’s Restaurants: The diner chain’s story – and how it got that controversial name Sambo’s was a popular chain of family restaurants that offered diner-style table service. The business started in California in the late 1950s, and expanded across the country throughout the 60s and 70s. With a wide menu, Sambo’s was able to offer something for almost everyone — dinners of everything from filet mignon to fried chicken, and breakfasts like the Papa Jumbo special (juice, eggs, bacon or sausage, and six pancakes) and a cottage cheese & peach salad. At its peak in 1979, Sambo’s had an incredible 1,117 restaurants in 47 states. Spoiler Just two years later, however, the company declared bankruptcy, and most of the locations were sold or closed. While not wholly responsible, the restaurant’s controversial name certainly contributed to its ’80s demise. Although the founders maintain that the word “Sambo” originally came from combining the names Sam and Bo — for Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett — it immediately called to mind “The Story of Little Black Sambo,” a children’s story from 1899 about a dark-skinned boy, some mean tigers, and a whole lot of pancakes. Initially a popular book, it took time for many people to process, and then protest, the fact that the character names were also racist slurs against dark-skinned people. In 1951, the Rochester, New York branch of the NAACP was among the first to request the book’s removal from school libraries, saying that Sambo was “not good for human relations and democratic principles.” Still, six years later, Sambo’s Pancake House opened up its doors in Santa Barbara, California. Instead of choosing another restaurant name, the founders decided to lean into it — even making their first mascot a little black boy — and used the tagline, “The finest pancakes west of the Congo.” Sambo's Pancakes 1958 Whether to somewhat appease critics or to build the foundation of a new branding campaign — or both — by the middle of 1960, the restaurant had a new mascot. This version of the Sambo character was a light-skinned Indian boy who wore a turban, and would appear as the face of the brand for more than two decades. Despite changing their icon, the company name remained controversial. Main Sambo's mascot - Indian boy with pancakes Since at least 1972 (as seen in one of the articles below) there was considerable pushback about “Sambo’s” racist overtones, although the company maintained that the negative feedback was minimal. So, with a lot of money already invested in the brand, and to avoid losing their momentum, management chose not to change the name. In November 1977, syndicated columnist William Raspberry weighed in, writing, “the name ‘Sambo’ is taken by black Americans across the land as an insult. It’s hard to imagine that Sam Battistone doesn’t know that. “Nor is it surprising that the company has had few formal complaints, although it presently operates in some 45 states.” Raspberry concluded, “I’m not likely to write you a letter of protest if I assume that you know you’re insulting me and that you simply don’t give a damn.” Fast-forward to June 2020, when there was just one Sambo’s left — the original restaurant in Santa Barbara, now owned by Battistone’s grandson Chad Stevens. At long last, the company said, it was time for the little Indian boy to go — and to take his name with him. As posted on the Sambo’s Instagram account: “We are changing the name of our restaurant, what the future name will be is still uncertain, however it will not be Sambo’s… “Our family has looked into our hearts and realize that we must be sensitive when others whom we respect make a strong appeal. So today we stand in solidarity with those seeking change and doing our part as best we can.”
but they aren’t statutes of black people, they are caricatures. They are racist interpretations of black people. It’s no different than buying a confederate flag.