I love both. Love chicken and watermelon and I'm white Irish. I think it was not well thought out, but I don't think it was a racist remark.
I, however, live in NJ and the sports reporter out of NYC on the 5:00am morning news opened his sports cast with the story. All three other anchors made such a face that I sent them an email about acting holier than thou. They're so biased up here. I mentioned to the New York sports reporter that he NEVER mentions anything when BIG MOUTH Shockey opens his mouth. He sent me an email back thanking me for writing and basically brushing it off, signing it "your friend, Duke Castiglione."
Anyway, just my input.