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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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It would only be racist if it was a white guy leaving watermelon gifts on black porches.
If it were a black guy leaving watermelons on black porches, Afro-American solstice fruit Santa. It would become racist again if white people tried to participate by leaving stereotypical black cultural gift offerings akin to milk and cookies for Santa.
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“Racially insensitive,” perhaps, but just trying to participate in someone’s culture is usually pro-social. Only as a form of mockery would I call that racist.
Hence the leaving of "stereotypical black cultural gifts". You can imagine what white people would leave as a gift for a black person, that they only understand from popular culture.