Man, that sucks. Watermelon is amazing.

White folks should celebrate the fact that freed slaves brought this to our tables. Your history of it reminds me a bit of the low country rice fields of the early 1800s.

The plantation owners had NO idea how to grow rice. They relied on the skills of the West African slaves they tortured for the crop. It's only now that we are seeing a wee bit of credit being given to those West Africans. There is so much buried history. Each article like this helps unbury just a little more of it.