A question of racism...

Mark Wein said:
As racist as the posters are, they depict a time in America's history when things like this were allowed. I don't think you're a racist for owning them, since they are a collectible and I think that history should be preserved as long as it's kept in context....I wouldn't hang one in my living room (the "racist ones") but I think they should be preserved...
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+1

Kerouac said:
My neighbor hung a confederate flag in his window the day after a black family moved in across the courtyard. Apartment complex never said a word. :facepalm:
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Just :facepalm:

Prages said:
Reminds me of a story about my grandfather.

He's 81 years old, and worked in the coal mines for about 40 years or so. Where we lived (my grandparents just lived a few houses down from my parents), everyone was a white coal mining family. There was one black family (the Blackstocks...really, that was their last name) in the next town over and my grandfather worked with that guy for 40 years. Now, my grandfather is about as far from politically correct as one can imagine, but he and Blackstock (nobody called him Ed, even though that was his first name) were best of friends.

Well, my grandfather got one of those 'lawn jockey' statues holding a lantern for his yard:
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The next time Blackstock was at his house, my grandfather said to him "Blackstock, did you see I got a statue of your grand daddy out in the yard?" :facepalm:

A week later, Blackstock had the same statue in his yard, only he painted his white. He made sure to let my grandfather know that he had his grand daddy in his yard too. :grin:
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:grin:
 
mosiddiqi said:
Just :facepalm:
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I live in Southern Ohio... I hear racist ignorant shit like this all day long. I even had a student say "nigger" in a lesson once and I kicked his ass out and told him he could come back when he was more mature and understood why that wasn't cool. :(
 
Kerouac said:
I live in Southern Ohio... I hear racist ignorant shit like this all day long. I even had a student say "nigger" in a lesson once and I kicked his ass out and told him he could come back when he was more mature and understood why that wasn't cool. :(
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Well, the UK is far from perfect on that score..but London is such a multi cultural place.. I think the biggest thing I've noticed is that as recently as 10 years or so ago, Lisa and I would get stared at by some people in public..both asians and white people..a mixed race couple was still too much for some to take apparently :facepalm:...but that hardly ever happens now, there are so many mixed race couples and kids.
 
mosiddiqi said:
Well, the UK is far from perfect on that score..but London is such a multi cultural place.. I think the biggest thing I've noticed is that as recently as 10 years or so ago, Lisa and I would get stared at by some people in public..both asians and white people..a mixed race couple was still too much for some to take apparently :facepalm:...but that hardly ever happens now, there are so many mixed race couples and kids.
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I find that for the most part the UK shows are far more open than American tv shows are about showing inter-racial coupling and just going on about their business and not even making any kind of notice of it.

It's kind of cool.
 
Sad Navigator said:
Yep. I think it needs to be contextualized before you hang it in your living room though.
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true :)

micwalt said:
I remember a restaurant in my youth called Sambo's. The menus had cartoons of "Little Black Sambo" printed on the back. And this was in California in the mid-'70s.
:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::
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I remember Sambo's

There is still one in Santa Barbara: http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/



mosiddiqi said:
Well, the UK is far from perfect on that score..but London is such a multi cultural place.. I think the biggest thing I've noticed is that as recently as 10 years or so ago, Lisa and I would get stared at by some people in public..both asians and white people..a mixed race couple was still too much for some to take apparently :facepalm:...but that hardly ever happens now, there are so many mixed race couples and kids.
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I always thought that it would be more common in the UK (London at least) since you have so many people from what were colonies in the previous century that have been mixing for hundreds of years at this point....
 
I guess me and Mrs. P are a mixed race couple, though I never really think of us that way. I'm sure some people do though.


I'm not worried though....Mrs. P could kick their asses if they started something. :embarrassed:
 
Preserving the stuff is fine I think. A buddy of mine I clerked with at the appellate court was marrying a woman who had a ton of that kind of thing as collectibles. Before they moved in together, I went over to her place with my buddy, and she had the stuff all over. While I get collecting it, I did not feel comfortable sitting in a display of it in her living room.

She also had a collection of old barbed wire. Again, I can see why it is collected. That stuff changed the West. I am not sure I would want it up in my living room though.
 
I've been to a coffee shop in Nuremberg, Germany called "Mr Bleck."

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Would this go over well in the USA? :embarrassed:
 
So, I guess it's official.

Any of you racist bastards want to buy a couple of framed original Bull Durham ads?
 
I'd buy them for my grandfather, but Blackstock died a few years ago, so the joke wouldn't work.














Of course, their preacher, who stops by their house fairly often, is a black guy, so maybe it'll still work. :embarrassed:
 
Prages said:
I guess me and Mrs. P are a mixed race couple, though I never really think of us that way. I'm sure some people do though.
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It is pretty noticeable - a normal person married to a native West Virginian. It happens occasionally......
 
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