Re: Race card....

["Jason Jones" <jdjones1@midway.uchicago.edu>]

In the South water-melon farms were staffed by a lot of black slave labor.
and today they are staffed by very under-paid minorities.  It is extremely
difficult work.

There is also a stereo-type that black people love water-melons and fried
chicken.  Not sure where this came from... old adverts?

ps:  on a completely unrelated note, anyone see Stromile Swifts last
perfomance? I really think our K. Brown is going to be like him.....


Jason David Jones.
-----Original Message-----
From: Orion <johnlyell@hotmail.com>
To: Cecil Wright <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>; Ryan Lee
<rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com>; Celtics@igtc.com <Celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Race card....


>No that I want to extend this volley, I am interested in how melonhead is
>construed as racist?
>
>Am I missing something? I call my son this all the time when he does things
>without thinking.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
>To: "Ryan Lee" <rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com>; <Celtics@igtc.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Race card....
>
>
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Nobody called you a racist, at least I didn't.  You could be a visible
>> minority yourself for all I know.
>>
>> But the fact is that I find the term offensive.  It is offensive to me as
>a
>> black person.  Though it offends me, and I have asked for folks to stop
>> using it for that reason, I have not called you a racist.
>>
>> As I said in my original post, I did not think you would understand why.
>>
>> Let's get back to basketball.
>>
>> Cecil
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ryan Lee" <rlee_at_channing@yahoo.com>
>> To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:37 PM
>> Subject: Race card....
>>
>>
>> > I stop checking e-mail for 2 days to prep for a new
>> > job and I get called a racist for calling Walker a
>> > melonhead?!?  Just who the hell do you people think
>> > you are?  You get frustrated because you can't
>> > suppress what I say so you call me a racist to stop me
>> > ?
>> > This is stretching here folks.  I didn't even call him
>> > Watermelonhead or use any indirect or direct epithets
>> > but yet you fools were able to make an inference like
>> > this?  The only thing I have derided him on is his
>> > lack of game and poor strategy.  What next?  If I
>> > describe a player as a workhorse on the court, are you
>> > gonna take that as me calling that person a slave?
>> > You guys really went too far on this one.  Melonhead
>> > is a common phrase to describing someone with a large
>> > head or someone who is stupid.  I could have used
>> > pumpkinhead but melonhead sounds funnier to me and
>> > it's alot shorter to type.  Don't tell me none of you
>> > have heard this phrase on TV.  Get a clue melonheads.
>> >
>> > R
>> > Find a job, post your resume.
>> > http://careers.yahoo.com