<p>“Watermelon HAS BEEN USED”.</p>
<p>This is my problem with African-Americans: over-sensitivity and a rather unhealthy attachment to the past. “A century ago people associated watermelons with simplicity and lack of education, so let’s never look at another watermelon again, even though there is absolutely nothing about a watermelon that actually suggests simplicity and lack of education!”</p>
<p>Why should everyone else walk on tiptoe to avoid “offending” African-Americans, when AAs say their fair share of stupid things to people of other minority races? Why on earth would you allow the past to forever color your view of the present? How on earth would you ever succeed when you never look to the future?
Look at Jews - they’re hands-down the most discriminated race/ethnicity on the planet. There is practically no continent where Jews haven’t been a target at some point in history. Just last century a maniac just got up and slaughtered six million of them. SIX ACTUAL MILLION. But how many butthurt Jews do you find? I think that’s directly related to their overall success, up to the point that a tiny strip of desert land surrounded by hostile nations is one of the most influential states in the world.</p>
<p>I don’t have the time or the energy to react when someone refers to “African” food or “African” culture or “African” words. And I still don’t see how watermelons are derogatory. It’s like the notion that people who eat soy products are hippie health nuts. Some people just like the taste of soy (I wonder why). Some cultures thrive on soy (Japan). Do you see Japanese people crying that everyone thinks they’re hippie health nuts?</p>