Early 1900s, racist imagery was widely used in consumer products even Valentine’s Day cards and relied on caricatures and stereotypes to create humor. Harvey Young, Jr., an Associate Professor at Northwestern gave a talk on racist V-Day ephemera and had this to say:
They capture in a material object the racial discourse occurring at the moment…You can really get a sense of how common and everyday and widely accepted these cards were. It gestures to this past moment when racism was more apparent in society.Look at those joking jokester white folks and their joking its just a joke! jokes.
Jesus Christ.
White folks have one fuck of a sense of humor.
That last one…lynching us was just a game to them. Not even a glimmer of shame.
I’m gonna go with the gold digger and the idea of a black woman’s choice in this era as well as her caricature advertising sex and choice means in a landscape of romance for white foll
yep. white folks and their jokes…
this all looks awfully familiar. They been doing this since forever
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