Christopher Adams
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How Do You Eat a Watermelon? A Review of Talk to Me
- By Christopher Adams
- Published 08/4/2007
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Youtube, that succubus that has ingested countless hours of my life, features a public affairs clip from the early 80's with an African-American man in a leisure suit. He holds a butcher knife and carves watermelon chunks, while discussing the cultural variations in its consumption. Lecturing as he luxuriates in a high-backed rattan chair, his thick gold chain draping between his open white dress shirt, he appears to be a long-forgotten SNL parody. But the clip is of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Green, a legendary radio and TV broadcaster from Washington, D.C. Partially due to shoveling food and to his thick mix of Southern dialect and Black English, more than one Youtube visitor has commented, "What language is that? What is he saying?"
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