Being Black and hearing republicans laughing it up at watermelon jokes at my exp

[CC27]

bigtree

...how that feels after a lifetime stretching from the promise of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, to the revival of Jim Crow racism as a political play in the Trump era.

We were so close to turning the corner on all that, and purging most of the old racists through attrition like we did in my old grocery workplace.

This is Jim Crow cosplay which intends to be a permanent feature in our social discourse. The way we drove most of the kinds of abominations underground after the material gains of the Civil Rights era was through public shaming and humiliation of regressive bigots who insisted on continuing the divisive nonsense.

There is no effective legal recourse. This is on us to drive it to the ground again, and there are more of us out here today who will make it clear they aren't tolerating any of it.

I recall integration of a particular school in the South in that segregated past where ALL of the white students were pulled out of classes by their parents when a handful of black youth were admitted. Those black youth attended classes in a virtually empty school that year.

The next year, however, the majority of the white students had been allowed to return - and time and history marched on.


But that progression didn't happen in a vacuum of indifference or apathy. There needed to be leadership from the top to make clear that the nation wasn't going back to forced segregation and the discriminating against minority Americans with impunity.

It really is remarkable how our insistence on progressive change has the potential to move mountains of resistance, in the end. History tells us this.


___When I think of watermelon, btw, I immediately recall my mother telling me how she would spend summers in her youth in Molena, Ga, working with her father and sharecroppers in a melon field, and how she would love to crack open a warm watermelon and eat it with the juice running all down her front.

Just a beautifully evocative memory that reminds me of the awful distortions that these slanders contain in their denial of the wonderfulness of Black people's lives, our actual joy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219618452

All righty then.. 🙄

[Old n Grumpy]

I don’t think I ever heard a water melon joke looks like the poster is really digging deep.

[CC27]

I don’t think I ever heard a water melon joke looks like the poster is really digging deep.

The watermelon joke was really bizarre in my opinion

[SVPete]

I don’t think I ever heard a water melon joke looks like the poster is really digging deep.

I think "republicans laughing it up at watermelon jokes" happens in some laws-of-physics-violating perpendicular universe. Or maybe in bigtree's -iverse. I haven't seen or heard any such "jokes".

When the demand for racism exceeds the supply, fakes and chimeras supply the lack.

[DUmpDiver]

how she would love to crack open a warm watermelon and eat it with the juice running all down her front.

Your mom is a slob.

[DefiantSix]

how she would love to crack open a warm watermelon and eat it with the juice running all down her front

Your mom is a slob.

You're talking to a DUmp'Rat. The nut didn't fall very from that tree.   

[jukin]

Well DUmmy bigtree, hearing that Kumallah kept black men in prison longer than they should have been to use them as free/cheap labor must really piss you off.

[Tess Anderson]

I don't know what Ron is talking about and I haven't heard a watermelon joke in decades. Guess he's too old (64) to defy the DNC. Even that dumbass Kamala will win Maryland, I'm more interested in the Senate race there.

[FlippyDoo]

My late maternal grandfather loved watermelon. Even grew them. I wonder if he knew he was black?

Oh, lest the DUmmie forget, it was the democrats who had the Klan as their militant arm. It was the republicans who fought and are still fighting to free blacks.

[DefiantSix]

My late maternal grandfather loved watermelon. Even grew them. I wonder if he knew he was black?

Oh, lest the DUmmie forget, it was the democrats who had the Klan as their militant arm. It was the republicans who fought and are still fighting to free blacks.

Was dear sweet grand-mama on your Irish setter side, or on your sky-rat side of the family?

[SVPete]

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Oh, lest the DUmmie forget, it was the democrats who had the Klan as their militant arm. It was the republicans who fought and are still fighting to free blacks.

It was the Democrats' 1924 MSG convention in which the delegates voted against a resolution to condemn the KKK, because not a few delegates were Klan members and friends of Klan members.

[FlippyDoo]

Was dear sweet grand-mama on your Irish setter side, or on your sky-rat side of the family?

  Grandma was a lovely pigeon. As for grandad, I loved him dearly, but he, quite literally, could be a bit of a horn dog.