Posted on 06/08/2016 9:24:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
We've been told to look for racism everywhere these days, so I'm just asking the question.
Only if they serve watermelon.
Ya know...I'm 72 and from Upstate NY. All my life I've eaten watermelon and NEVER connected it to blacks until we got into this administration which sees racism at every turn and every word...but disregards reverse racism.
Never connected the confederate flag as racist either. They were citizens just like the Northern Army. Their dead is no different than our dead.
As Shakespeare said: “Do not be a niggard of your speech.”
Is KFC Halal?
You think Ali would just say “pass out the KFC and enjoy”? Was he so caught up in racism himself that he couldn’t?
When anything can be racists, everything can be racist. The word has become a political weapon, not what it actually means.
When anything can be racists, everything can be racist. The word has become a political weapon, not what it actually means.
Look up some old Florida postcards. Lots of watermelon and stealing corn racist themes.
I think there’s a kosher version of it authorized in Israel.
However I doubt they are going to pass it out at the memorial. (The concessions might offer it... I doubt that all the attendees are themselves Islamic.)
Why do:
Asians tend to live in mostly Asian neighborhoods?
Hispanics tend to live in mostly Hispanic neighborhoods?
Blacks tend to live in mostly Black neighborhoods
Whites tend to live in mostly White neighborhoods?
Gays tend to live in mostly Gay neighborhoods.
Birds of a feather flock together?
Just maybe we are all racists.
T’was an old stereotype of darker bretheren enjoying watermelon...
http://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M0bacd5ebb648f153aed1bce257d3f641H0&pid=15.1
Agreed on the confederate flag. The lengths they are going now to hide it amount to having their ears covered blabbering “I can’t hear you!” Idiocracy...
If their giving out fried chicken, I want to go.
I hang with Center of right folks who share my beliefs and IT geeks also I live in a Mixed area that is very safe, I look for culture regardless of color, I do not hang around crap.
It has always been a political weapon.
Yeah, and ship in a truck full of Fla watermelons.
Ever read an old poem called KENTUCKY LARNIN? It is about a little colored boy who steals a watermelon and shames his “good Christian mammy”.
She goes on for several verses about how she is shamed because he stole it. “And because you stole it, you don’t get a piece!”
“WY IT”S GREEN!”
Then she goes on for several verses on how to tell a ripe melon from a green melon.
I knew a woman fifty years ago who could recite the entire poem from memory.
Yeah, I lived in Fla in the 50’s...lol.
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