Asclepias
Diamond Member
OOOOOHHHHHH YEEEAAAHHHHH!!!!Kool Aid is the original "grape drink". A sugary, cheap, easy to make drink. The stereotype has been around for decades. You don't remember people being pissed off about the commercial with the black people playing basketball and the Kool Aid Man comes out?As I've noted backthread, in order for something to be a stereotype, it has to be widely known. If we have to go Google it, it's not widely known. 'Widely known' is something we don't need to Google.
That isn't a value judgment; it's simply the way it works.
Thats not what widely known means. And whether you know about it or not doesnt affect the state of anything. Things dont disappear based on your knowledge of it or your penis would be gone.
That doesn't make any sense.
Look at it this way -- if Kilmeade -- who I understand has a long history of saying weird shit -- had said, "do you serve it with fried chicken and watermelon? They remind me of summer" --- you wouldn't have anybody here claiming they never heard of fried chicken and watermelon as racial stereotypes.
But Kool Aid?
No, this has to be a regional thing or some kind of inside joke. A stereotype means everybody gets it.
In what way is that "racist"? I don't get it.
It promotes the stereotype that all Black people do is play basketball and drink Koolaid. It would be like me making a commercial showing white people trying to play basketball (not very well) and the Tang man coming out and giving them super powers so they could compete.