Watermelon

[Plane]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/jacqueline-woodson-responds-to-racist-joke/ar-BBg7qre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon

   Watermelon, Banjo , Fried Chicken, Uncle Remus and about fifty other articles connected with the legacy of being African American have a poison about them from being associated with bad jokes .

     This is not fair to the Watermelon , which has been in cultivation since at least four thousand years ago in ancient Egypt , perhaps longer in Southern Africa.

     Jokes made in ill will have produced and allergy to some legitimate heritage.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Watermelon is very popular in my neighborhood.
After the harvest, several people bring it to a street near me and sell it out of the back of a pickup truck.
It is available in all the supermarkets as well.
 What I have not seen here is yellow watermelon. We have the red ones with and without seeds, small and round and large and egg shaped.
I have always liked watermelon.

My neighborhood is very diverse. There are five chicken places within walking distance of my home: KFC, Church's, Popeye's, Pollo Tropical and a Haitian chicken place.
I like fried chicken, too. Pollo Tropical and the Haitian place has grilled chicken.

I have not seen any examples of Black people avoiding eating watermelon or fried chicken.

Banjos are different. I have not seen a Black person play a banjo except in Washington State. Banjos are seen as hillbilly instruments for hillbilly music.

My father played the banjo in a Dixieland Band when he went to Texas Tech.

[Plane]

   My Uncle made good money raising yellow meat Melons in Alabama , people came from afar to buy a pickup load.

    The Banjo comes to Dixie by way of Africa , where it has its origin, neither Africa nor Appalachia should ruin it.

     I get surprised at some of the things that make people sensitive sometimes, when I was a kid , I looked forward to a massive dose of watermelon and hardly ever passed a Sunday afternoon without having a big slice , with or without salt.

     I was in high school before I learned that there was in some quarters a stigma attached.

[kimba1]

the largest consumer of watermelon and fried chicken is Chinese. my friend who is black trips out that anything that is watermelon flavored is the bulk of what I eat. I pretty much clean out safeways watermelon drinks. I know most of the best fried chicken places in san Francisco. if it has the word melon I`ll more likely give it a try

[Xavier_Onassis]

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Cawy makes watermelon soda here in Miami. I am not that fond of soda, but this is better than most. Originally the can had a black girl on it. Someone complained, and she was replaced with a gar-toothed  freckled White kid, but they still sell the soda with the Black girl on it in Haiti.