We all know of the stereotype of Black people and watermelons...I just learned there's a cruel irony at the bottom of that racist imagery.
Watermelons hail from and grow native in a region spreading from the Congo north and west along the old slave coast. Watermelons spread first to Egypt and North Africa along trade routes and then into the Middle East,…
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