🍉 THE WATERMELON MAN — A LEGACY THEY NEVER TAUGHT US ABOUT 🍉 Before machines, before big corporations, before farming became “content,” there were Black men who carried entire harvest seasons on their backs — men like Amos Thomas, a real Southern watermelon contractor. This episode is more than a story. It’s a memorial. A piece of Florida and Southern history that rarely gets told. For decades, Black migrant workers traveled from Florida → Georgia → South Carolina → North Carolina → Virginia,

Watermelon Man (1970) is a comedic and thought provoking film by Melvin Van Peebles. Highly recommended for viewing. Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland, Howard Caine, Kay Kimberly, Kay E. Kuter Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) is a middle-class white man whose views are somewhat sexist and racist. Every morning, he catches the bus and along the way he taunts and harasses Black people. His wife (Estelle Parsons) is a liberal woman that empathetic to the