Oreo, Watermelon, Banana

Riddle: How is a banana like an oreo and a watermelon?

Answer: They all have different colors outside & inside.

Thus:
They can all be used Politically,
to describe people whose actual principles and
actions differ from what they claim to be,
either For Real, or else in the Opinion of the Users.

Known uses:
Oreo: "black on the outside, white on the inside."
.. Used by activists to slur compromisers, and also to
.. slur people of obvious African descent who have
.. become successful in America.
Watermelon: green on outside, red on inside.
.. Used in 1959-60 by non-Communist Castro supporters
.. as a warning that Communists were trying to take over
.. Castro's government. Then it happened, as we know,
.. and the warning-users fled to America.
Banana: yellow on outside, white on inside.
.. Used now by a Chinese newspaper to slur Americans of
.. Chinese ancestry, and particularly the departing USA
.. Ambassador to China.
.. "Many" Chinese are objecting to this particular use.
http://news.yahoo.com
credited to AP (Beijing)

Howard True Map-addict

Another is apple (red on outside white on inside) used by Native Americans for those who embrace white culture and become successful very similar to your Oreo.

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The Oreo designation has actually been fairly effective in a totalitarian sense in discouraging African Americans who dissent from the party line from publicly saying so. I'm less familiar with the effectiveness of the other slurs but I assume that they have a similar chilling effect. Sigh......

Apples are good for you!

So are bananas.

HTM

pokermind wrote:Another is apple (red on outside white on inside) used by Native Americans for those who embrace white culture and become successful very similar to your Oreo.

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