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To: Jamestown1630

you have to be black to love fried chicken and watermelon?


57 posted on 10/09/2017 8:27:04 AM PDT by SPRINK
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To: SPRINK

I had never heard of fried chicken being associated with historical depictions of black people which they now find demeaning; but watermelon was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype

I don’t personally know any black people who would even think about this. We have parties, we bring watermelon - and fried chicken.


58 posted on 10/09/2017 8:47:57 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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