Museum of Shocking Racist Memorabilia Opens in Bid to Teach Tolerance

Telegraph ^ | April 20, 2012 | Hannah Furness

[lbryce]

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, in Michigan, US, contains a vast range of posters, toys and signs depicting shocking stereotypes of African American people.

It includes outdated theories of evolution, instructions on how to “black up” for the theatre and even a full-size replica of a lynching tree.

The collection, which makes for extremely uncomfortable viewing in the modern day, is said to be the largest of its kind in the world.

It was amassed by the founder and curator of the museum David Pilgrim, who began collecting the pieces as a teenager.

[Sudetenland]

Liberals LOVE to wallow in guilt, it makes them feel suitably penitent so that they can go out and act morally superior to those of us who haven't admitted that America has always been evil and the source of all that it bad in the world.

I don't feel much remorse and I still think that most of those stereotypical advertisements were hilarious. I still watch and enjoy all of those old Charlie Chan movies, the Mr. Moto films, the old Amos and Andy episodes and I enjoy them.

Most conservatives feel no remorse because they understand that those items on exhibit were a manifestation of the culture at that time and all of the people who were responsible for them are dead and gone.

They weren't intended to be hateful or mean spirited, they were meant to amuse those whose commerce they were intended to stimulate.

I refuse to feel guilt for something that my for-bearers did in a different culture at a different time.

If you are looking for insult, you will most certainly find it.

[Happy Rain]

I grew up in the segregated South and I can tell you I saw with my own eyes just how bad black folk had it.

But that was a long time ago and them days are gone forever. And only cruel and evil demagogues would want them to retain then justifiable feelings of resentment into these days where those feelings are now unjustifiable anachronisms that can do nothing but unnecessarily pick off the scabs trying to heal the old hate.

[CatherineofAragon]

I’m sick of these people presuming to TEACH me things. I don’t need lessons from them on anything.

[OldNewYork]

No need for a museum yet - just turn on the TV.

[cripplecreek]

The GOP formed out of Whigs, abolitionist democrats, and Freesoilers. The Freesoil party was a primarily abolitionist party that only existed for a short while but took a considerable number of house seats and lent courage to abolitionists from both parties who went on to reform under the GOP banner.

[FunkyZero]

You know, generally I fall in line with most people here when it comes to everyday issues... but on this one, I kind of agree that this display is a good thing.

A very irritating thing about todays PC trends is the desire to completely ignore race, ignore our differences and pretend things never happened all for fear of being called racist.

I'm not at all uncomfortable looking at this stuff nor should anyone else be. A lot of what happened in the past was wrong, but it happened. It's old history from a time when racism was real rather than the BS we deal with in today's era. It was an interesting time and it's good to recognize it and study it and learn form it

This isn't to say it's not Ok to hate thuggery... which is the thing most of us despise rather than the pigment. Unfortunately, it (race baiting) is used as a tool and that will never change as long as we are not all the same color. So recognize it, talk about it, but get used to it; it's here to stay.

[W. W. SMITH]

our nation has transcended all that and created the greatest, freest society in human history.
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There is one last remnant of that past, the very source of that virulent racist hatred that has been directed at so many different ethnic groups and religions as well as blacks, the Democrat party.

What is puzzling is those discriminated against tend to vote Democrat.

[YankeeReb]

They should have a Woodrow Wilson exhibit in there where we see him watching Birth of a Nation in the W.H.

Maybe we can do a special mock up of the camps where FDR had American citizens of Japanese, German and Italian decent interred.

[W. W. SMITH]

I’ll bet there’s no indication of the fact that no black person was ever lynched by a Republican.
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However there is much documentation of Republicans and even teachers who dared to teach blacks, being lynched in the south’s Jim Crow era.

[W. W. SMITH]

all of the people who were responsible for them are dead and gone.
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The above is true............However can an organization develop and maintain character of its own apart from the character of it’s members? If so the content of the Democrat party’s character is a loathsome foul smelling pit of degradation.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Granted, it is overwhelmingly true that the Republican Party was more sympathetic to blacks than the Democrats, at least through 1920.

[skeeter]

Seems the entire history of this country can be summed up in one word.

And that one word, coincidentally, has been extremely useful in building a monolithic State apparatus which has systematically stripped Americans of their liberties, one at a time, while setting groups against one another for years.

[stylin19a]

I wonder if there’s an Amos & Andy wing...

[Mears]

I love wandering around museums but this is one I’ll skip.

Enough with the racism industry. !!!!!!!!!!

[The_Media_never_lie]

It’s never to late to spread hate.