Originally Posted By danyoung >The problem is not that African Americans are shown eating watermelons. Rather, the problem is that Blacks are portrayed as contented Coons, Toms, Mammies, and Picaninnies, with all their hopes, dreams, and fears sated by eating watermelons under the shade of great trees.< This! ^^^
Originally Posted By mawnck Update - was digging through a table of clearance valentine candy today, and found the Spongebob version of the Dig 'n Dips valentines. Based on those: Strongly suspect that the offending package is one of the individual valentines from inside a box of 'em. Strongly suspect that the princesses are seen in various different combos on the valentines, and for all we know there may be one with Tiana on the vanilla side. Strongly suspect that I will be checking other Rite Aids this weekend to see if I can find the Disney Princess version of the stuff and find out for sure.
Originally Posted By basil fan >>blacks were portrayed as lazy, stupid servant half-people who like to whistle and dance a lot. Watermelon (and to a lesser extent, fried chicken) are part of this stereotype. This is true. But nobody freaks out if a black character is shown dancing. Whatsits Galore <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/disney.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ney.html</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>This is true. But nobody freaks out if a black character is shown dancing.<< You don't get to pick and choose what a culture freaks out about.
Originally Posted By basil fan Evidently not. I so wish we could get past the freak-out stage, where folks of every colour would look at past prejudices, shake their heads, and move on. Disney Glitches <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/dglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...tch.html</a>
