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PC truly gone mad.
LOL. Damned if you don’t, damned if you do. The good news is there is a strong undercurrent in society that is absolutely sick of this constant blame and victimhood game, and it will surface into the open eventually.
One professional victim complains and another tradition dies?? The shame here truly falls on the heads of the museum
Is watermelon salad a tradition? If so, please provide the historical context.
Black people like Watermelon just like any other group.
In retrospect, seems like the Museum did not have bad intentions. Yet, is is appropriate they retracted it and apologized. Too bad I see the expected racism from people claiming there’s nothing wrong. And, “21 R”, the “strong undercurrent in society” you’re referring to are racists – there, I fixed it for you. And, TFG has normalized racism so that people like you no longer see the need to hide your racism, so it is already “surfaced”.
This same sort of thing happened a few weeks ago with an IKEA that put together a Juneteenth menu, developed through the food suggestions of black employees (fried chicken, watermelon, collard greens). Still blasted as culturally insensitive. You just can’t win.
If the worst evidence of racism we can identify is watermelon salad, we truly have a subset of the population desperate to find racism in everything…then to harness it for a power play.
It must be a day that ends in Y to face racism allegations. Thankfully with each allegation, the sting gets muted. After all, when everything is racist, nothing can be racist.
If “TFG” normalized racism–why do the allegations of racism seem to have increased fifteen-fold in all these other countries where TFG had no political sway? Furthermore, even if Randy’s cult uses this scapegoat (“his normalization of racism spread across the world!) , what can possibly explain the growing diversity between the TFG electorate of 2016 (which was no less racially diverse than any other GOP pres candidate) and the TFG electorate of 2020 (the most racially diverse GOP vote in 60 years)? They can’t answer these questions because there’s no answer that accords with their orthodoxy.
So all blacks eat fried chicken, watermelon and collard greens? And these items were never eaten by whites, particularly whites in the South?
A reasonable explanation of why this ‘watermelon’ issue has raised the ire of so many has been noted in comments to this article.
Many felt the menu item was inappropriate and some voiced their opinion. One must note that inappropriate is not racism. Think of bringing a ham or alcohol to certain events — sentiment appreciated, item not so much.
For those who are not black this may perhaps seem trivial, overblown, PC run amok. Perhaps akin those those who are not male and earn 80 cents to the dollar of male colleagues for the same work. Trivial, insignificant, and PC as adjectives for the aforementioned conundrum is indeed subjective, depending on the reader.
“Perhaps akin those those who are not male and earn 80 cents to the dollar of male colleagues for the same work. ”
Trivial, insignificant and PC are just three potential adjectives. “Verifiably false” is another–the key involving that 80/100 ratio to “same work”. Women are not paid 80 cents to the dollar for the same work. If they were, they’d have legitimate discrimination claims. They don’t.
Perhaps, to satisfy the equality-of-outcomes death cult, we should address the inequity that consistently reveals that men comprise over 90% of workplace related deaths? Maybe we should kill a few women on the job just to level the playing field? The reality of course is that men disproportionately take dangerous jobs which inevitably pay more–and one of the main reasons I’m not seething with jealousy over men on the “80 cents to the dollar” gibberish.
If you’re hellbent on finding unfairness, you always will find it. That we have people decrying watermelon salads just shows how desperate people must be in looking for it.
The history of Juneteenth centers around a horrible period in history.
Would atrocities committed against certain ethnic groups during World War 2 be marketed and attached to consumables?
Think before you answer.
There is nothing wrong with french fries, bratwurst, pizza, tacos, or even hot dogs, just like there is nothing wrong with watermelon. For crying out loud, if a red melon is going to cause a black woman to have a meltdown, then there should be no food with any history, i.e. French, German, Mexican, etc. etc. served at all. This is the year 2022… move on.
Lefties get “triggered” at the mention of any word in the English language or any food that is in many groceries and households in the US!
Larry David did an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm on this very subject.
The watermelon has been used as a racist trope since the days of Jim Crow, and those who pretend it has not are being purposely disingenuous. I say that because I don’t think anyone old enough to read the IBJ can be that ignorant, but just in case, see either the Wikipedia article “Watermelon Stereotype”(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype) or the December 2014 article in “The Atlantic,” “How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope” (https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/how-watermelons-became-a-racist-trope/383529/).
What I find amazing (in addition to the protestations above) is that no one at the Children’s Museum quashed this embarrassing idea before it came to fruition.
I demand that every white employee of the children’s museum be fired including the executive director anybody in management and be replaced with african-americans. That’s the only way I will be happy and satisfied. I need resignations immediately.
Anybody notice that all the comments complaining about “political correctness” come from white people? Of course. They are in the best position to be the judge of what is and is not appropriate no matter the event, the audience, or the circumstances. They are also the ones most likely to promulgate the conspiracy theory that Democrats (urged on by minorities) are implementing an active, ongoing and covert effort to replace the white population in the United States. Shades of white supremacy?
Wow! Brent is truly a god among men, somehow knowing the race of everyone who writes here. If you’re not lecturing other whites on this site, you’re lecturing minorities who don’t necessarily appeal to the grievance politics that you need to gain capital. Nothing more white supremacist than urban progressives seeking to help the minorities that they see is little more than crippled puppies…as long as the minorities toe the line of victimhood.
Brent, the “Great Replacement” theory that you cite is mostly just your beloved bogeyman Tucker literally extracting clips of Democrat bigwigs literally stating that this is their precise intent: recognizing they can’t win on their ideas, they hope to saturate the country with minorities so they can create their one-party state paradise.
Not that there’s any real threat of a “great replacement”. Only a leftist would be dense enough to think that people view the world a certain way because of their race, ethnicity, or national origin.
What!?!
White people can not comment on this topic??
Your attitude is as racially divisive as anything I’ve ever read.
WHO DO YOU think you are trying to peolle what they can and can not
say or speak to. That’s elitist and arrogant!!!!
So stupid I guess I get a cracker with my salad I should protest.
Is “cracker” a racially insensitive term too?
Indiana–the “middle finger” of the south…
Since when??
Yes, truly, the Indianapolis Children’s Museum is run by a bunch of semi-literate bumpkins.
In my opinion, most of the comments above are an embarrassment to the State of Indiana.
I have to think that it is common knowledge that the watermelon has been used to disparage black since the days of Jim Crow. If you really need to see examples, just look at the Wikipedia article entitled “Watermelon Stereotype.” If you want to delve deeper, find the article in “The Atlantic” magazine from December 8, 2014 by William R. Black. Pretending that this is not the case, or that black people should not be offended, seems to me to be on par with claiming that the Confederate flag just means “pride in southern heritage.”
Frankly, I’m amazed that no one at the Children’s Museum had the good sense to quash this idea before it came to fruition.