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Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 10:42 am
Quote:Fox & Friends dresses up black child as watermelon for Halloween segment
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During a Halloween costume segment, President Donald Trump’s favorite morning program showed off some ideas for this year’s Halloween holiday.
And while white children were dressed as robots and rainbows, one black child was forced to wear a costume that some might consider to be racially insensitive.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/lucas-i...n-segment/
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 11:13 am
As a non-American I don't get it. What's racially insensitive about a water melon?
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 11:22 am
(October 22, 2017 at 11:13 am)Mathilda Wrote: As a non-American I don't get it. What's racially insensitive about a water melon?
How watermelons became a racist trope
Watermelon stereotype
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 11:24 am
I dressing as a slice of Wonder Bread.
With Mayo.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 11:29 am
This is why conservatives don't take accusations of bigotry seriously. Stop sharing this shit.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 11:48 am
Should anyone honestly care if conservatives take racism seriously. I mean they not going to anyway .They will just mount the usual excuses.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 2:11 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 2:23 pm
I also wouldn't be making tropes about blacks picking cotton either.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 3:34 pm
Fox triggering loads of people. Regressives triggered by a watermelon costume (and the kid might not even be black. Hard to tell) Fundies triggered by the kid wearing the rainbow costume.
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