I actually do remember seeing a bunch of these back in the day, now, not-so-much. I’m pretty sure most of the white supremacists are too old to keep up their Grand Wizard estates. They probably all reside in some White Supremacist rest home. Sucking on mint Jell-O.
To me, I never understood why the bigots loved these lawn ornaments. Technically successful jockeys can make a cool mill per year.
LAWN JOCKEY HISTORY.
Legend has it that the lawn jockey is modeled after Jacko Graves. Apparently he was a young African American boy that wanted to help fight the redcoats in 1776.
Washington said he was too young for battle. However, he told Jacko that he could watch the calvary’s horses while they crossed the Delaware river. And that he should keep a latern blazing so the soldiers could find their way back from the mission. Jacko was so faithful to General Washington that he froze to death carrying out his orders.
In the 1800s these statues were used to point escaped slaves towards the direction of underground railroad safe houses.
It wasn’t until the early 1900s when the moron racists really started to go nuts for these statues. Again, I didn't find much of a reason for it. Only that (In their small minds) displaying a tiny caricature of an African American on their lawns was the ultimate tribute to the Days of Dixie.
Thankfully today our society has almost all but abandoned this practice. Instead we proudly display our hatred for dwarves and midgets.
I've always wondered what lawn jockeys were. I thought they were some kind of ride on lawn mower!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. My black kids keep telling me to get one! I guess that goes hand in had with their "Un-Hyphenated American" shirts that they love. They blow me away. However, no way I'm having one of those things.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! LOL! We went from being racist to flat out being mean. We are morons.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen these before, thanks for showing me!
ReplyDeleteLawn ornaments in general are pretty silly.
ReplyDeleteHate to say it, but there's still a bunch of those jockey statues in the south.
ReplyDeleteBet you didn't know lawn jockey's are a symbol of the underground railroad and represent safe haven and travel to the north... you're all ignorant twats and can't do any research. these are probably the least racist things in existence.
DeleteI've never seen a lawn jockey before. If I had, I wouldn't have known what they meant. Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteDown with the lawn gnomes, wooooo
ReplyDeleteI have only seen one of those lawn jockeys in real life. I didn't know the history behind them though. I just learned something new. I personally don't like lawn art. Remember Pink Flamingos? What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteIts amazing what people will erect in their garden. What's with those teeny weeny wishing wells and miniture bridges????
ReplyDeleteOMG! That gnome is very expensive, no way!!!
ReplyDeleteI love shit like this in people yards they are way too boring these days
ReplyDeleteI love the roaming gnome! It inspired my wife and I to get stuffed vacation monkey to take on all our trips and include in as many p[ictures as possible.
ReplyDeletebahahahh! lawn ornaments of all kind make my butt itch. but particularly the surpremacist type. and gnomes. i loathe gnomes.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid growing up, I remember one of the neighbors having one of these. I remember asking once while their statue was all dirty. What can I say, I was a naive kid and we only had one black family in the entire town. Smack. Smack. (The sound of me hitting my forehead).
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