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>>533899most eyes are colored anon
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The point of a stereotype isn't in its specific details. But if I could theorize, whiteys saw black people as having big lips which they thought was "feminine" then added the red thing in there because red lips are also seen as feminine in the West. Idk. White people apparently think big lips are a gendered thing, even though having thin lips is one of the most fuck-ugly facial features you could have regardless of gender. As for chicken and watermelon, it comes from traditional foodways of freed African slaves in the southern US as others ITT have pointed out.
No.533994
>>533887Did they have liquid smoke in the 1800s
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>>533853Black people do like fried chicken and watermelon but so do southern white people and caijuns and creoles
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>lips
Black people tend to have fuller lips than white people, which made whitey insecure (the invention of lip fillers has betrayed this) so they made the lips a thing to mock black people for. In caricatures things are exaggerated, so they made the lips look grotesque - bright red and puffy. It's also partly inspired by minstrel shows where black people were portrayed by white people in blackface where they left the mouth unpainted (sometimes painted white) to exaggerate since it was theater makeup meant to be seen by people far from the stage. This was in turn inspired by clown makeup since the point was to portray black people as foolish and funny. It's not supposed to represent reality, but to play on deeply ingrained cultural imagery.
>chicken and watermelon
Like other people said, it's poor people food, but there's also some more to it. Watermelon is quite messy to eat, so portraying people eating watermelon is an easy shortcut to portraying them as unwashed barbarians for being sloppy eaters. Chicken less so, but fried chicken is usually greasy and eaten with your hands too, so compared to a lot of foods is pretty messy so has a similar effect. Collard greens are also associated with black people since they were a popular food item but they don't get emphasized in stereotypes because you can't really milk that for racist comedy. Another aspect is that these are sort of "comfort" foods and stereotypes of black people tend to emphasize laziness and hedonism contrasted by supposedly temperant white christians.
>I know chinletism isn't supposed to make sense but even as a child I never got how these got so prevalent.
Just because racism is dumb and the actual narratives don't make sense, doesn't mean that there isn't an explanation for how those narratives were developed and why they caught on. It's fine to be curious, and it's good to look into these kinds of things and how and why they function.