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2. Explain why watermelon jokes are racist and what stereotype Woodson says that these jokes indulge.

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They're stereotypical because a lot of black people you may meet don't even like it. A lot of older generations of black people grow up disliking it because as children they would eat it a lot because it was affordable easily accessible. They were also joked on for eating watermelon by white people, so to beat that stereotype they stopped eating it.

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