Encouraging his grandmother’s racism towards blacks is endearing? You’re joking, right?
What if she had sent him a cross to burn? Would that be endearing, too?
What is it with you people who read racism into everything?
We can’t spend our time polishing the past any more than this illustration represents polishing oppression, black caricatures were rampant at the time the grandmother actually purchased the card in question.
The lad in the picture is cleaning the watermelon to prepare it for display, you can find similar images among Rockwell’s work.