Well this is sure to trigger some folks.
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Saw this on FB Marketplace just now. $800, marked down from $1500. Not sure if it's somebody's idea of a joke or what. Someone, however, posted what they say is history about these guys. Not sure if true, but interesting nonetheless. These lawn jockeys were pretty commonplace when I grew up.
Interesting history in regards to pieces like this. The color of the shirt meant different things like, safe passage, food and lodging, safehouse, all along the underground railroad for those who displayed these statues. They actually helped slaves escape to freedom. Know the history, it will help the sale.
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Snopes says unproven, but there are some serious folks that believe they were in fact the least racist thing one could have during those times.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-jockey-underground-railroad/
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Snopes says unproven, but there are some serious folks that believe they were in fact the least racist thing one could have during those times.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-jockey-underground-railroad/
@Mik said in Well this is sure to trigger some folks.:
Snopes says unproven, but there are some serious folks that believe they were in fact the least racist thing one could have during those times.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-jockey-underground-railroad/
Bull, all the contrary arguments come from 1 source, the Jim Crow Museum, which has an interest in finding racism… The argument about red and green signals coming from post WWI railroad signals is wrong or incomplete at best. Red and Green ribbons have been used by railroads since the 1840’s…
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I went looking for an old SNL skit on the theme of What I Did Last Summer, including Garrett Morris holding a job posing as a lawn jockey. IIRC it was pretty funny. But I couldn't find it; one website said it was 'lost to history'.
I'll bet.
In the process, I came across a few old SNL skits that brought back good memories: Rosanne Rosanna Danna, Father Guido Sarducci, Cheeseburger-Cheeseburger-Coke-No Pepsi, Two Wild & Crazy Guys (coming to America to meet American girls with their big American breasts), Matt Foley (living in a van down by the river) Garrett Morris (News for the Hard of Hearing). . .
And here is an episode of Land Shark. You remember that one?
Link to video
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I doubt my neighbor Mr Birch had any thought that his curb jockey was a pro-civil rights statement.
Not that he would have said it was there for explicitly racist reasons either. He would have just said something really banal like “it’s a nice decoration” or something.
