That’s a pretty good summation of what i feel. I have stayed in America for 1 month of my life and am no way connected to the USA now, but still, I have heard of the KFC and watermelon connection. Granting the benefit of the doubt, she is still a moron.
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I think you’re probably over-analyzing on the ‘buck’ thing.
Funny fact - the only time I’ve ever heard the word used that way in the real world was two late-30’s black men talking about high school black kids. At the time the ‘over-sexed’ thing didn’t occur to me, but thinking back to the context, I guess that part was in there too…
-Joe
I wasn’t joking; I’ve heard/read the “Obamabots are all drinking the Kool-Aid” bullshit so often, it’s the first thing that came to mind. I was aware of the fried chicken/watermelon/ribs stereotypes as “black food” but had never, in my sheltered Northeast liberal enclave, encountered the idea that Kool-Aid is also an African-American staple.
Huh. Learn something new every day.
On preview: Thanks, Tamerlane, you’re spot on.
You know, neither did I and i’m black and from Delaware. We used to drink Hi-C when I was a kid. My folks hated making kool-aid.
So when people on the SMDB post and call Obama supporters “kool-aid drinkers” is that a racial insult?
Actually, the association of fried chicken/watermelon/Blacks is easily found in newspaper articles from the late 1800s.
While the term “buck nigger” is found in the 1800s, it probably wasn’t used in a sexual way until the 1900s.
There was a time when the watermelon was considered mildly poisonous to whites, but safe for blacks to eat.
No, it’s a “you are a cult member” insult referring to the followers of Jim Jones and the incidnet in Guyana where he and his followers committed mass suicide.
It’s not touchy to stand by your words when someone rudely tries to correct you and fails. It’s what most people would do.
I wouldn’t call his post rude. Nor would I disagree with it. While your use of it was, in and of itself, perfectly valid, it does stick out like a sore thumb in a political thread. The word reactionary does have a particular meaning in politics, and it’s not made up. Your post was kind of like someone else using the word liberal when he means a style of 18th century philosophical thought.
Tamelane is one of the least rude posters on the boards. And one of the more learned. I didn’t see anything rude about the information offered, or the way in which it was offered.
As to failing to correct you on your use of a term which, today, isn’t used much to describe that which you think it described, well, so it goes.
I’m pretty sure the word “buck” is used by at least one good old boy in the movie To Kill A Mockingbird, and possibly the book too, to describe Tom Robinson.
Oh, I’ve seen it a bazillion times in Harry Turtledove books. I’m talking about real life and in person.
-Joe
I think you’re incorrect, but if you can give me some basis for it, I"ll reconsider.
Blink Tsk. Really?
As far as the use of the word, it’s hard to say the first definition and literal meaning of a word is wrong, but that’s the SDMB for you, I guess.
I may have been victim of an urban legend. I remember being told this long ago, and it jibed with some other stuff people believed in the past (i.e. it was once thought that blacks were immune to malaria), but I’ve done some searching online and I can’t find any references to it.
Ah, ok, gotcha.
I missed which dictionary you’re suggesting has your use of the word as it’s first meaning. Refresh my memory.
Maybe that’s why some people salt it? 
Or is that a southern thing too?
Actually, it was Flavor Aid.
That’s because I didn’t say. But since you’re so concerned, the Webster’s Unabridged that I keep on my desk. Would you like to compare penis size and/or urination distance now, sir?