http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/detroit-firefighter-fired-for-bringing-watermelon-to-station

Earlier this month, 41-year-old Robert Pattison went to introduce himself to his fellow firefighters at Engine 55 at Joy and Southfield in Detroit. Second Battallion Chief Shawn McCarty calls it a tradition for firefighters. “It’s not mandatory, it’s voluntary,” he says. “You come in bearing gifts. The usual gift is doughnuts, but you are allowed to bring whatever you want to bring in.” And Pattison, a probationary firefighter, decided to bring a watermelon wrapped in a pink ribbon. We’re told some African-American firefighters were instantly offended, since 90 percent of the people who work at Engine 55 are black. FOX 2: “Is it racially insensitive to bring a watermelon into a fire house?” “To some people,” McCarty says. FOX 2 spoke to Pattison by phone, who claims it was not a joke – and he did not mean to offend his fellow firefighters. But he clearly did. Fire Commissioner Eric Jones says the Fenton native was officially discharged. “After a thorough investigation, it was determined that the best course of action was to terminate the employment of this probationary employee.”

Commentary by Justin Igger

Ah, hell nah! If a white person give a black man a watermelon with a pink bow on it, that’s the same thing as calling him the N word. Fo real.

That white mufucka lucky he didn’t get his ass beat. Knowmsayin.

Niggas I be knowin woulda raped his white ass. Then ate his watermelon for dessert and spit they seeds at him while he laying on the ground bleedin out his asshole. I ain’t lyin. I put that on errythang.

Them firefightin niggas must be soft or sumpin. Letting that white man bring them a watermelon for a present and not beat him with they thick ass water hoses and shit.

It’s 2017. If a white man even say watermelon around a black person, that be hate speech. And hate speech is a hate crime. So this man shouldn’t have just been fired from his job. He should be in the federal penitentiary with a bunch of swole ass niggas doing life. Bet that racist cracka wouldn’t be talkin bout no watermelons then. Knowsayin.

I remember back in the day when this fat white hoe came to my homeboy birthday party. Errybody pose to bring something to eat and shit. This dumb bitch brought a big ass watermelon from her grandaddy garden.

I was like, “What the fuck is wrong witch you? You gonna come to a nigga’s birthday party and bring a mufuggin watermelon? Is you crazy?”

She was like, “I thought black people loved watermelon?”

I say, “We do love watermelon. And fried chicken, too. But when a white person bring a watermelon or a bucket of thighs to a black party, then it be like they yellin the N word and shit.”

Fat bitch say, “Well, I would never say the N word. I have mixed children and only date black guys. I was just trying to be nice.”

Then I tricked her ass. I told her, “I don’t balee you. You racist and shit.”

She say, “I swear I ain’t.”

I say, “Prove it.”

She was like, “OK. How?”

I pulled out muh dik and she proved it while I ate a slice of her grandaddy watermelon. Sheeit.