What does it mean for black people to eat watermelon?

In fact, before the abolition of southern slavery, white farmers in the southern United States kept a large number of black slaves. At that time, the man's main agricultural output was cotton and watermelon. Black slaves did a lot of heavy agricultural work but received no pay at all.

If the white slave owners felt that the black people had done a good job, they would not give them dollars as a reward, but reward them with watermelons while they were resting. Therefore, in American culture, the meme of asking black people to eat watermelons represents That's the context.

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After the Civil War, the southern slave owners were defeated and the black slaves were liberated. However, the newly liberated black people did not receive any education and did not have any survival. With skills, he can only grow cotton and watermelons.

As a result, a large number of black people chose their old profession, which was to make a living by growing watermelons. At that time, the white group in the South was very discriminatory against black people. Black people's love for eating watermelon became a mantra for the white group to mock black people.

After hundreds of years of accumulation, this mantra has become a collection of negative images such as low IQ, easy complacency, laziness, and talkative talk.

Han culture cannot explain why black people cannot eat watermelon, just like Han culture cannot explain why halal culture cannot eat pork. But lack of understanding does not prevent us from respecting. The Chinese will not force Muslims to eat pork, nor will they force African Americans to eat watermelon, because this is called quality.