Esmeralda
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Ah, yes. Wiki, the be all and end all of knowledge.Maybe this will help some of you who seem to have great difficulty processing this thread:
Stereotypes and generalizations about African Americans and their culture have evolved within American society dating back to the colonial years of settlement, particularly after slavery became a racial institution that was heritable. The early blackfaceminstrel shows of the 19th century portrayed blacks as joyous, naive, superstitious, ignorant, and musically inclined—characteristics related to the way slaveholders in earlier years believed them to be.
Such scholars as Patricia A. Turner note "stereotyping objects in popular culture that depict blacks as servile, primitive, or simpleminded and explains how the subtle influences of such seemingly harmless images reinforce anti-black attitudes".[1] As with every other identifiable group, stereotypes continue today. African Americans are often portrayed as violent, lazy and very religious. They also are portrayed as having a love of fried chicken, watermelon, corn bread, Kool-Aid, waffles, sweet tea, and grape drink.
More: Stereotypes of African Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have never heard of any connections to the African American culture of waffles, sweet tea, kool aid or grape drink. Seriously, you have to be reaching, really reaching to make these things an issue. If some people want to think in those terms, racists assigning these things in a derogatory way to the black culture, that is their problem, but these ideas are not wide spread and there is no awareness of this in the general public. I eat waffles, I like sweet tea, corn bread, and watermelon. These are things that only someone who is very racist would think about as being sterotypical to black culture. It's a very limited number of people who might have any awareness of such ideas.
I just can't see the guy purposely making a racial slur directed at his colleage on a national/internatiional television program, a guy who would be aware he is insulting this woman. It doesn't make any sense.
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