Furthermore, the label that black colored everyone loves chicken has its beginning in colonialism and its discourse that is racist birds was indeed essential in diets of slaves into the Southern states (Demby, 2013). The exact same counts for melons: free black colored individuals in america grew, consumed, and offered watermelons, and also by doing this, they made the melon symbolic of these freedom. Southern white individuals, who rejected their freedom, made the good fresh fruit symbolic associated with the black colored peoples dirtiness, laziness, childishness, and undesirable existence (Ebony, 2014). These remnants of biological racism are described as embodied racism by Weaver (2011, p. 67), that is racism with an order-building and propensity that is hierarchical plus a invention of modernity alongside of this growth of competition itself. These memes be seemingly innocent, but they are in reality embodied in racist ideas developed centuries ago, to be able to justify dominance that is western disguised and justified when you look at the idea that it is simply a joke.
von Valeria Tyumeneva