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    1. …in reply to @undefined
      @tanehisicoates Racist watermelon trope arguably dates to white resistance to emancipation right after CW. E.g. wcaleb.rice.edu/omeka/items/show/98
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    @tanehisicoates Re: last tweet, @W_R_Black could say more; wrote paper about the joke's historical relationship to power struggles in South.