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> That wasn't a prevailing stereotype back then [...] The idle black man stereotype comes from the 1960s and later and originates in the US. I dispute that and
by lupusreal 2y ago
> That wasn't a prevailing stereotype back then [...] The idle black man stereotype comes from the 1960s and later and originates in the US.
I dispute that and present this racist cartoon from the 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_Me_Mama_with_a_Boogie_Beat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_Me_Mama_with_a_Boogie_Be...
More like it can be found. Lazy black people was a common trope in minstrell shows and similar.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoFor an example from a century earlier, the "father of American minstrelsy" Jim Crow https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/who/index.htm https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/who/index.htm