Word: watermelon
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...Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...
...small controversy erupted in Lowell House last week, when house resident Mellody R. Hayes '99 issued a complaint about a poster hanging in the serving area of her dining hall. Hayes and some members of the dining hall staff found the poster, which depicts several black figures carrying watermelon and other fruit above their heads, offensive. "The poster was racist," Hayes said. "It was building on stereotypes of black people enjoying watermelon...
...background is an important factor in this controversy. Can one argue that the poster is racist, if the artist was depicting scenes from his own life in Haiti? Though it is more likely that Fritzner's work is honest and meaningful rather than a portrayal of blacks as watermelon-eaters, given the loaded image of this poster and the stereotype it evokes of Southern blacks, the Lowell House dining hall may be an inappropriate place to hang it, particularly because it was purchased by the former dining hall manager as a nice piece of decoration. Nonetheless, these issues are debatable...
...poster was racist," said Hayes, who is black. "It was building on stereotypes of black people enjoying watermelon...
...open jaws. The last step before releasing the specimen is to tag it, a job Meyer assigns to me. I take a steak knife and stab an inch-long, inch-deep incision into the shark's back--no easy task, considering that its skin is as thick as a watermelon rind and as tough as leather. The shark doesn't even flinch. "That's nothing," Meyer reassures me, "compared with the wounds they inflict on each other during mating." I slip a barb-tipped wire with a white plastic tag into the incision and tug hard to anchor...