Posted on 08/28/2008 4:16:14 PM PDT by steveo
Jim Thrasher and his wife were enjoying the California State Fair this weekend until they came upon the Colusa County exhibit.
For the African American couple from Sacramento, the exhibit's depiction of "Waldo Watermelon Seed" conjured up painful images of the Jim Crow era.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Mrs. steveo and I were at the fair and walked right by this display and didn’t think a thing of it.
Mr. Thrasher and company are working overtime in their attempts to be offended.
‘Jim Crow era’
Those evil Democrats have left a legacy that still hurts people today. Have they no shame?
Congress recently established National Watermelon Month. Where’s the outrage?
If that other character was black, they’d complain about the lips.
I can understand why they would think it was offensive.
But, OTOH, how about not being so damn sensitive and realize this country had moved beyond your painful memories and almost nobody will give it a second thought.
In other words, grow up already. Not every white person is racist
And now for some ole work songs.
They would probably not like this one either.
Ok a watermelon seed is black and the exhibit is going to be modified. What flipping color are you going to make the watermelon seed? This s**t is getting out of hand. When will people begin to stand up to it. I guess when we can no longer call nighttime dark because it offends someone. Sheesh...........
(LOL!)
I stole this from another FReeper
Conservatives don’t care about race and ethnicity. They care about principle, they care about individuals and their rights and responsibilities as individual citizens.
The DNC is the party of racial politics, group politics, racial and ethnic obsessions. Conservatives care about you as you.
Not everyone gets it, and not everyone is ever going to get it. If you are ready for color-blind citizenship, you’re almost a Republican. If you think color-blind citizenship is unrealistic, impossible, even undesirable, then you are probably a Dem, and the DNC is frankly where you belong. If you define yourself by the color of your skin, whatever color it might be, if you define yourself by your ethnic or cultural antecedents, then you are probably a Dem and God bless you. If you define yourself as you, and as a citizen, you are probably headed our way politically.
You know, the GOP was born in 1854 as the original abolition party. The Democrats of the time were pro-slavery, and the Whigs were “pro-choice” on the matter. Christians who were fed up with a party that would not take a stand abandoned the Whigs, and formed their own minority party, the GOP. A decade later, slavery ended.
For the next hundred years, the GOP position was color-blind citizenship. The Dems were the party of the Ku Klux Klan (the Klan was historically the terror wing of the Democratic Party), they were the party of Jim Crow race repression, lynch mobs, fire hoses, night riders, and all that went with it.
It was Woodrow Wilson, Dem, who made Jim Crow (race repression) into federal law, and Coolidge, Repub, who repealed it. It was FDR, Dem, who refused even to sign anti-lynching legislation.
It was Eisenhower, Repub, who sent the troops into the south in modern times to put down Jim Crow. It was the Repubs who backed Civil Rights laws to put an end to Jim Crow.
When you look at old photographs of lynchings and firehoses putting down demonstrators, you and your friend should be aware that there is not a Repub to be found in those photos. That was a Dem phenomenon.
Now that Jim Crow is effectively dead, the DNC continues to deal in ethnic politics, collective politics, group politics. They are still the race-obsessed. Its the only way they know.
Look at the current race between Clinton and Obama; the race issue is thick in the air among Dems. Repubs care what their policies are, they could not care less about their ethnic background. If you believe as we believe, you are one of us. If not, not.
Our position continues to be what it always was. Color-blind citizenship. We’ve never changed.
16 posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:00:41 PM by marron
ping
Did any of the rest of you hear the African-American woman giving Hannity absolute hell about using the term “Kool-Aid Drinkers” last week?
Amazing.
So what color should a watermelon seed be?
“The images in advertisements of blacks eating watermelon with their hands “connotes a kind of savagery,” she said. Turner, 53, remembers African Americans eating watermelon with forks in public to combat that notion.”
shhh....dont tell anyone...I’ve been known to slice off a piece and eat it with my bare hands. Savagely I might add.
One more thing. What color is a watermelon seed and what color is a pumpkin seed? That’s what I thought.
A hearty AMEN to that. I have seen tasteless stuff that offended me and I just muttered "A-holes" and moved on. These people constantly whining and wringing their hands leads me to instinctively recall the picture in post #7 and blow them off.
cuz you just aren’t ‘racially sensitive’ enough.
You should probably immediately go to confession if you are Catholic. If not, just vote Obama because that is what other guilty white liberals are doing this year to appease their angry gods.
Good golly. I am sick to death of people being offend by watermelon.
Condoleezza Rice, thuggin' for democracy (more liberal racist imagery) (LA Weakly 1-20-05 Conal)
Note that this image was still active earlier this year. (at the time of the vanity fair cartoon controversy). I guess someone must've followed back to the discussion on FR or something (it had been online for years).
Watermelon seeds are black and that's all there is to it.
Surely this is a joke. Anybody anywhere that has ever cut open a watermelon has found black seeds and white seeds, coexisting in harmony, waiting to be spit at 60 mph out of some kids mouth. Whimpy whiners just looking for something to offend them.
Surely this is a joke. Anybody anywhere that has ever cut open a watermelon has found black seeds and white seeds, coexisting in harmony, waiting to be spit at 60 mph out of some kids mouth. Whimpy whiners just looking for something to offend them.
It would not surprise me at all if, in the near future, we see an organized movement to ban the watermelon as a “racist fruit.”
Thanks for re-posting that. It was brilliant and perfect.
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