Jim Crow – Nothing Funny Here!
By
John C Abercrombie
As we have just seen, Jim Crow is associated with a set of laws which work to deny freedom and opportunity for groups. In most cases, the minority group is Black, but other groups have also been affected by these laws. That was covered in Jim Crow – A Serious Look.
This post looks at the other side and is in no way funny! The stereotype is amplified but misguided. It is the portrayal of a person who is making fun of and ignorant of the ill effects and the harm being done and usually they don’t know or care.
Comedians poke fun at a group. Those in the group have had no other knowledge and therefore believe what they have seen as factual and applying to every member of the group.
Many of the images and portrayals here are hurtful and although they are delivered by comedians are NOT funny by any measure.
As we focus on this topic, it is necessary because left undiscussed, we see a serious demeaning of a race that has done so much to achieve the status of equality and recognition for what they have done.
Much is made of crime, but without looking at the role of the United States in establishing the very neighborhoods from which such portrayals are based, we don’t have a full understanding, which is essential in solving the “problem”.
Every dehumanizing act you can imagine were used to make the “normal”, which as we have come to realize are just wrong.
As you view the following materials, videos, books imagine how you would react if this is someone putting you as the focus of this propaganda.
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Understanding Jim Crow:
Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice A proper understanding of race relations in this country must include a solid knowledge of Jim Crow—how it emerged, what it was like, how it ended, and its impact on the culture. Understanding Jim Crow introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than 10,000 contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race, race relations, and racism.
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Parenting and Relationships
Jim Crow and the mocking of others is hurtful. It is difficult to navigate, but it must! Parents need to provide a nurturing environment for children. Adults need to become aware or otherwise they can be extremely insensitive to the pain they produce. Take time to explore unknown areas starting with our Amazon affiliate link below
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The New Jim Crow Museum
The New Jim Crow Museum Tour the Jim Crow museum with founder and curator, Dr. David Pilgrim. Dr. Pilgrim discusses some of the major themes of the Jim Crow Museum. Jim Crow was not just a character or a set of “laws”, it was a system that built upon itself to create and sustain a society with a racial hierarchy.
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Remembering Jim Crow:
African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years—enriched by memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression.
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The Nation’s Biggest Collection Of Racist Objects Are All In A Michigan College Basement (HBO)
David Pilgrim, a Black sociologist, runs the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia out of the small, white, Trump-voting town of Big Rapids, MI. With the help of private donors like Chuck and Ward, an elderly gay couple, Pilgrim believes that sharing his expansive collection can change the way racism is perceived in the United States.
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Power Accessories
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The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History Highlighting
the efforts of both Blacks and Whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy, Author David K. Fremon shows how segregation made the South a caste system. He traces the history of racial discrimination from the end of the Civil War through the Jim Crow era of segregation. After years of enduring separate facilities—including water fountains, telephone books, hospitals, and cemeteries—for whites and blacks, Fremon shows how African Americans and their white supporters were eventually able to win the battle for equal rights.
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Jim Crow Museum Tour
The renovated Jim Crow Museum opened to the public on April 1. The Pioneer took an early tour of the $1.3 million, 3,300-square-foot museum, located in the lower level of FLITE at Ferris State University. Museum founder David Pilgrim, museum assistant Lisa Kemmis and museum media specialist Franklin Hughes share their perspectives on the collection of racist memorabilia and the eight-year process of relocating the museum. A grand opening reception will take place at 10 a.m. on April 26 at Williams Auditorium followed by guided tours through the Jim Crow Museum. For more information, visit
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American Nightmare:
The History of Jim Crow For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial “etiquette,” these rules governed nearly every aspect of life―and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.
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Jim Crow Museum Documentary Ferris State
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Inside the Jim Crow Museum
Racism, civil rights and violence against people of different cultural backgrounds, they’re all part of a big conversation that’s been happening in this country for a long time.
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Blackface:
A cultural history of a racist art form With the recent controversy over Megyn Kelley’s remarks in which she questioned why wearing blackface on Halloween was offensive, “Sunday Morning” contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois looks at the long and complex history of white (and even black) performers painting their faces black. For more than 100 years, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment on stage and film, reducing an entire race of people to stereotypes. DuBois speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson, and with Eric Lott, cultural historian and professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, about the complicated history of a racist theatrical form.
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As you view the materials, remember the intent is to make people aware of the background that is the Black life in America. It can’t be understood, just looking at the accomplishments without understanding the extreme hardships that faced those brave to overcome any and all obstacles in their path. It is also necessary to understand what has held so many people back. All Black people wanted from the beginning was a fair chance, the same as anybody!