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| Lodge Pro 345 | Mar 4 2010, 05:47 PM Post #196 |
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. There is like a 54 page Tiger Woods thread - take it over there. , |
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| chatham | Mar 4 2010, 05:57 PM Post #197 |
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Cultural uses of watermelon: In Vietnamese culture, watermelon seeds are consumed during the Vietnamese New Year's holiday, Tết, as a snack.[29] Stereotypical caricatures may depict African Americans as being inordinately fond of watermelon.[30] The Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill on 17 April 2007 declaring watermelon as the official state vegetable, with some controversy as the watermelon is a fruit.[31] The citrulline which exists in watermelon (especially in the rind) is a known stimulator of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is thought to relax and expand blood vessels, much like the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, and may even increase libido.[32] Fans of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL started a tradition of hollowing out a watermelon and wearing it as a makeshift football helmet (the color of the Roughriders is green). During the 2009 Grey Cup in Calgary (between the Montreal Alouettes and the Roughriders, thousands of watermelons had to be imported to Calgary supermarkets to prevent a shortage being caused by Rider fans.[33] The town of Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia holds a biannual festival celebrating all things melon. |
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| chatham | Mar 4 2010, 06:01 PM Post #198 |
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Watermelon is native to Africa and was most likely brought over to this country by African slaves and Europeans. It is one of the more healthy foods containing many antioxidants. It is also an excellent source of sugar and an important source of water for survival. |
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| darby | Mar 4 2010, 06:02 PM Post #199 |
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Isn't it cool how some LS posters can continue to make direct ad hominum comments towards long time members with impunity and others get times out for simply disagreeing with the silencing demographic... I think that "justice is blind" lady is peeking a bit.. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 4 2010, 06:14 PM Post #200 |
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"Stereotypical caricatures may depict African Americans as being inordinately fond of watermelon." Such caricatures never saw our family photos when I was a child eating watermelon from end to end, seeds and all, slurping up the juice and loving every minute of it. Watermelon was a family treat. We would get in the car and drive to an open air market, my father would select the melon and we would drive home, cut it up in the back yard on a table and the rest is history. I will never understand how certain innocent things from my childhood have become associated with racism. I also could never understand why my parents salted it before eating, either. The vision of it brings a smile to my face. |
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| chatham | Mar 4 2010, 06:22 PM Post #201 |
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HIstory of same food at the Compton party. Watermelons are native to Africa and are a source of sugar energy, water for thirst, important vitamins and antioxidants. As a native food of the African people who were forced to come to American, can anyone deny the fact that that blacks would prefer watermelons as a sweet and healthy source of food, even today? Can certain foods be a genetic favorite? So let me say shame on anyone who thinks that watermelon is a racist food. I do tell my customers at the farmers market the history of food, including why blacks like watermelon. Knowledge is a powerful thing. WATERMELON: Watermelon is thought to have originated in southern Africa, where it is found growing wild, because it reaches maximum genetic diversity resulting in sweet, bland and bitter forms there. Alphonse de Candolle, in 1882,[1] already considered the evidence sufficient to prove that watermelon was indigenous to tropical Africa.[2] Though Citrullus colocynthis is often considered to be a wild ancestor of watermelon, and is now found native in north and west Africa, Fenny Dane and Jiarong Liu,[3] suggest on the basis of chloroplast DNA investigations, that the cultivated and wild watermelon appear to have diverged independently from a common ancestor, possibly C. ecirrhosus from Namibia. Southern food historian John Egerton has said he believes African slaves helped introduce the watermelon to the United States. Texas Agricultural Extension horticulturalist Jerry Parsons lists African slaves and European colonists as having distributed watermelons to many areas of the world. NUTRITION; Watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 92% water by weight.[8] As with many other fruits, it is a source of vitamin C. Notable is the inner rind or the watermelon which is usually a light green or white color. This area is edible and contains many hidden nutrients that most people avoid eating due to its void taste. The amino acid citrulline was first extracted from watermelon and analysed.[9] Watermelons contain a significant amount of citrulline and after consumption of several kg an elevated concentration is measured in the blood plasma; this could be mistaken for citrullinaemia or other urea cycle disorder.[10] Watermelon rinds are also edible, and sometimes used as a vegetable.[11] In China, they are stir-fried, stewed, or more often pickled. When stir-fried, the de-skinned and de-fruited rind is cooked with olive oil, garlic, chili peppers, scallions, sugar and rum. Pickled watermelon rind is also commonly consumed in the Southern US,[12] Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.[citation needed] In the Balkans, especially Serbia, watermelon slatko is also popular.[13] Watermelon juice can also be made into wine.[14] Watermelon is also mildly diuretic.[15] Watermelons contain large amounts of beta carotene.[16] Watermelon with red flesh is a significant source of lycopene. A traditional food plant in Africa, this fruit has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care.[17] |
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| darby | Mar 4 2010, 06:25 PM Post #202 |
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I hope to see y'all in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, every 2nd Saturday in August. |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2010, 06:27 PM Post #203 |
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Jones' "official statement", FWIW (I have no idea who J. Jones is nor what his background is) : http://www.jiggaboojones.com/Compton_cookout_Final_Official_Statement_jiggaboo_jones.htm Compton Cookout: Official Statement Ladies, Gentlemen, people of the media & the element of sub human trash who started this crap: Earlier this month we wanted to give a special thank you to several of my fans on My Street Team in San Diego for their continued support of our videos, shirts & DVD’s. As we have done several times and several places before. A few days before the event we were unable to get a full screening copy of the DVD in time for the event. With the wheels of the event already in motion it was thought it would still be fun to have the party they invited some friends from UCSD and it went off great and it was a good time had by all. A few people who were rowdy participants from Nigga Nite 2009 showed up, and we turned them away, because we didn’t want any fights or Police Involvement. Over the next few days some hate mongering black people had told a pack of lies about our event stating that a White Fraternity and several members of the KKK threw a Racist party that made fun of black people. This lie was quickly soaked up by people with some kind of political agenda to spread hate and discontent among people who attend UCSD. The divisive few told a “Woa is me” tale of how all blacks at UCSD are almost lynched in trees seemingly everyday. Members of the media ate this up because this type of story sells papers, gets people pissed off and keeps them tuning in. Blog sites went crazy and facebook fascists took their laptops and started the witch hunt that would ruin the reputations of several good hearted people and their families with their inaccurate statements. Several fans called my phones, lit up voicemail and emails wondering why I wasn’t coming out to defend the members of my San Diego Street team. The odd truth was the supposedly offended people purposely never contacted any of them. Instead they targeted a few people who were at the event and or invited a bunch of UCSD students (conveniently only the white ones) were singled out as racists. As I jumped in and pulled the curtain back exposing the fact that it was never a racist event and explained the whole mix-up, I was hung up on, called an uncle tom and was accused of getting paid off to “Cover for the Racists”. People even tried to say that the picture on the original facebook invite wasn’t really (me) Jiggaboo Jones, stating it was a woman wearing a Jiggaboo Jones T-Shirt. Believe it or not people actually clung to this as they grasped at straws realizing that they were in fact marching and protesting about a damn lie. What about the fact that my myspace blast spoke of this with pictures already posted from Nigga Nite 2009? Notice how they never removed the original Compton Cookout Photo from their discussion groups? What about the original Nigga Klan photo from Nigga Nite 2008, all of these questions would get pushed aside in favor of saying that I am trying to get 15 minutes of fame… (How the hell??) I refuse to stand by watching the reputations of my fans used as some professor’s political stepping stone? I have gone on national radio shows to expose these political hacks for what they really are. To my fans at UCSD I am sorry this came out like this - I never wanted anyone to be branded as a KLAN member for simply drinking a few beers and having a few laughs with a mixed crowd of people and laughing about the stupidity of racial tensions in 2010. To those who protested and “Walked out” I am sorry but you truly are the victims of an elaborate deceit waged to trick you all into a frenzy. The Compton Cookout was simply a great chance to knock down the walls of racial division and to get all sides to enjoy poking fun at all elements of racial tension. Some of these groups like The “Black Student Union” and their connected “political activists” won’t allow this progress because it threatens their very existence. They simply can’t have events like this because it undermines their foothold and exposes the fact that they are obsolete and in soon need of being disbanded. These political hacks played to your fears and suspicions instead of letting you all in on the whole story. The really sad part is many of you ran into the streets with “Torches & Pitchforks” without thinking about the fact that maybe someone had been withholding valuable information. This reminds me of something so familiar…. You won’t find any weapons of mass destruction here either. [ Scoff ] Sadly, your marches and demands for blood have only worsened racial tensions at UCSD. If you really wanted to diminish racial tensions sit down at each others benched & tables over a coffee, soda or more politically correct a bottle of water talk about why you think the other is wrong and put a face and personal experience to that who you think has wronged you. Admittedly I am just a nigga, but I am smart enough to have figured this much out, none of you with your supposed education and fancy titles are anywhere close to this. As I have promised my fans since day one, there will be no phony retractions coerced apologies for anything that I, the Nigga Klan (NK), my fans, or the LANSD have done. We have done nothing wrong and I continue to demand the phony “Offended Persons” go fight their political fight with someone else. To those of you who target us, we fight unconventionally, we retaliate with unpredictable perfection, our tools are unexpected and you should never underestimate the power of items that come from the 99 Cent Store. Proudly, The Number One Ni----rin America….. Jiggaboo (M.F.) Jones S.A.B.B.D & L.A.N.S.D. Edited by Quasimodo, Mar 4 2010, 06:28 PM.
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| Mason | Mar 4 2010, 06:30 PM Post #204 |
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When I think about Nooses, I think about the Old West. When I think about Watermelon, I think about my Father, who loved it. There is somehow a denigration when others impose their associations on us, overriding our own. Demanding the world be viewed the way they prefer to view it. . |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2010, 06:33 PM Post #205 |
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http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-03-03/local-county-news/yates-ire-about-racism-at-ucsd-is-misguided/print/ Yates: Ire about racism at UCSD is misguided (snip) The simple fact is that the reckless actions of a misguided few are dragging an entire university through the mud. (snip) Of course the whole notion of a “Compton Cookout,” is a bad idea. Having any party (whether it be a “white trash” party, a “ghetto” party, or whatever) that perpetuates negative stereotypes about a certain group of people can be seen as irresponsible and insensitive. But it is what’s happened in the wake of the party that has created the most animosity, not the party itself. Let us not forget that the entire atmosphere of racial unrest was started by a fledgling “comedian,” (and that word is used slathered in sarcasm) who was trying to promote a new DVD. The perpetrator, named Jiggaboo Jones, said in a recent YouTube video [1] that he encouraged people to “come down and be black. You can put some shoe polish on and for that night, you can be an honorary ‘n-word,’ for the event.” He later claims that the event was not racist and there was nothing about the event that was racist. You know, aside from the shoe polish thing. The school came out quickly and admonished the party — which was not sanctioned by the school and held off-campus — and the notion that there is a sense of racism on campus. Jones, who’s MySpace page lists his name as Nipsey Washington, later defended the party again with an official statement [2] on his Web site, and on the Roger Hedgecock radio program (audio below). (snip) Since then, there have been several incidents to fan the already growing flames of hate and distrust burning in Torrey Pines. First, there was the KoalaTV program that discussed the fallout from the party, in which its editor, Kris Gregorian, 25, dropped the N-bomb. KoalaTV, a student-run, closed-circuit station, has a reputation for inciting controversy across campus, all in the name of “free speech and the First Amendment.” Gregorian, as seen in a column by the Union-Tribune’s Michael Stetz [4], has proven himself to be at best an insensitive, agitating windbag, and at worst an antagonistic bigot. After his comments, the school has since closed off all funding of KoalaTV and dozens of other UCSD-based media outlets, including print publications and radio stations, which makes you wonder what “principle of free speech” is being exhibited because of Gregorian’s remarks. Two days later, after the university planned a campus-wide teach-in, members of the Black Student Union led a walkout [5]. They were unsatisfied with the university’s response to the incident, with one member saying, “The university and our community will not be fixed by a two-hour teach-in.” (snip) If tensions across campus weren’t already high enough, they reached a boiling point last week when a noose — one of the abhorrent symbols of the gross injustice, violence and oppression that black people endured for many years in America – was found hanging [6] in the school’s Geisel Library. On top of that, on Tuesday, the university issued a statement saying they were investigating the discovery of a pillowcase, which had been fashioned into a Ku Klux Klan-style hood [7], which was placed atop a statue outside of the Geisel Library late Monday night. (snip) It was later learned that the noose was left by a student, a minority student at that, who later apologized in a letter [8] written and published in The Guardian, UCSD’s campus newspaper. “As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,” the student wrote. The student claims that she and her friends were “playing with a rope” when one of them tied it into a noose. “I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD. I left soon after with one of my friends for Geisel to study, still carrying the rope,” she wrote. “After a bit of studying I picked up the rope to play with, and ended up hanging it by my desk. It was a mindless act and stupid mistake. When I got up to leave, a couple hours later, I simply forgot about it.” Hmmmm… forgive my skepticism. I know I certainly like playing with nooses all the time while I’m studying, right after I’m done scrawling pentagrams on my notebooks and folding origami swastikas. (snip) What if Washington had chosen to throw his vile party at another school, say UC Irvine, or Cal State-San Marcos? It’s likely that there would have been the same public firestorm on those campuses, likely the same foolish pranks that followed, the same stringent adherence to free speech, and the same outcry from those discriminated-against individuals and groups. If that had happened, would the scant 2 percent of black students at UCSD feel any more unsafe and victimized today than they did in January? Or at any time last year? If there is really an abiding sense, as black students at UCSD claim, of marginalization (or at worst, outright racism) that is exhibited toward them, then I’m glad that these events have held up the mirror to this injustice. Often times it takes controversy and public shaming to lead to positive change. (Now here comes the big ‘but’ …) But, if these are solitary incidents that, while completely inappropriate and insensitive, have become exponentially worse given the current climate, then perhaps it’s time that people see this for what it is: an unfortunate situation that was caused by one man’s tactless and offensive beliefs, crude humor, and inflated sense of self-worth and importance. San Diego, and specifically UCSD, are now in the spotlight because of it. And that’s an injustice in and of itself. |
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| chatham | Mar 4 2010, 06:36 PM Post #206 |
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RIght on!!!! |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2010, 06:43 PM Post #207 |
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Radio interview with Jones explaining his concept of race-mixing parties (which he has held since 2005), in an atmosphere which encourages discussions about race in an informal (zany and over the top) party atmosphere: http://www.jiggaboojones.com/Compton_cookout_Final_Official_Statement_jiggaboo_jones.htm Edited by Quasimodo, Mar 4 2010, 06:59 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Mar 4 2010, 06:55 PM Post #208 |
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![]() Local newspapers reported a rise in crime during the production of this movie. Its documented by the Los Angeles Police Department, local Authorities and the media. Jiggaboo Jones had a one man impact lowering the arrest rate while crime soared and left everyday citizens scared, angry and confused. Even if you are a law-abiding citizen you need to see this video to educate yourself enough so you don't become a statistic. Buy the today DVD and protect yourself tomorrow. A Comical look at the fools who comit street crime. Jiggaboo Jones and his band of thugs and hustlers show you all the game thats fit for DVD. |
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| wayne fontes | Mar 4 2010, 06:57 PM Post #209 |
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I think people need to back it down a bit and reflect upon what purpose a forum serves. It's for discussion which will inevitably lead to disagreements. A group of people constantly agreeing with each other will be boring and is inherently dishonest. It can't happen unless people adopt some form of self censorship. People need to keep their own feelings in perspective on boards. The person on the other end may have just as strong feelings and both can be valid depending on what end of the spectrum they focus on. In the case at hand Joan looked at the actual content of the invitation and Caroline focused on the back story of the invitation and how the BSU leveraged it to make demands. Neither could be called factually wrong. Every one needs to develop a little thicker skin and realize when you wake up tomorrow your life will be completely unaffected by what happens on this board. Your kids will still need you, your spouse will still love you and the dog will want it's bowl of food. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 4 2010, 07:03 PM Post #210 |
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" Your kids will still need you, your spouse will still love you and the dog will want it's bowl of food." Okay, who walks the dog? To the larger point, Wayne. I have read this thread multiple times over the past two days. You have specifically mentioned Joan and Carolyn in your post so I will specifically reference them. There are points in each of their posts that I completely agree with. There are conversely other points that I don't. Isn't this the purpose of a good conversation - the exchange of ideas without judgment? I hope we can achieve that here and often times I think we really do. I hope no one leaves the board, but comes back with a strong voice to speak and a patient ear to listen. |
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