The folks at the California State Fair defended their display of a smiling watermelon seed. The "Waldo Watermelon Seed" drawing was removed this week after the couple said the image evoked negative stereotypes about Blacks.The exhibit was intended to celebrate Colusa County's seed-producing crops, which generate $30 million a year. The youngsters at a county juvenile hall created a display honoring watermelon, cucumber, pumpkin and tomato seeds.
Veronica Hannon Thrasher and her husband objected to the "Waldo Watermelon" caricature, which they said looked like "a happy Black slave eating watermelon."
The county attorney said the wards had wrongly been cast "under a cloud of unintended racism."
Well villagers ... you be the judge. Is the display racist in nature? Or did the State Fair over-react by having it removed? What say u?
