[Jamal]

The crew chief knew exactly what he was doing, he was feeding the sterotype that all "Ns" love watermellon, Its a wonder he didn't have some fried chicken and some red kool aid to go along with it. Your refusal to join in and eat the watermellon was the equivalent of being an Uppity "N" to the crew chief and subsequently to the rest of field Negro's. You should have stuck to your guns and gut feeling instead of caving in to the pressure of the overseer and the field negros IMO.