Jim Crow Museum Of Racist Memorabilia In Michigan Showcases Segregation-era Artifacts

[SpartanDem]

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque – a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense that it makes visitors cringe.

That's the idea behind the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, which says it has amassed the nation's largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond.
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Some of the objects in the museum are a century old. Others were made as recently as this year.

Ferris State sophomore Nehemiah Israel was particularly troubled by a series of items about President Barack Obama.

One T-shirt on display reads: "Any White Guy 2012." Another shirt that says "Obama '08" is accompanied by a cartoon monkey holding a banana. A mouse pad shows robe-wearing Ku Klux Klan members chasing an Obama caricature above the words, "Run Obama Run."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/jim-crow-museum-racist-memorabilia-ferris-state-michigan_n_1436879.html?ref=detroit



I'm glad Ferris State did this with todays climate on the right, where merely bringing up issues of race lead to accusations of racism.

[Ron Green]

1. K&R. I grew up in the Jim Crow South,

a hundred years after the Civil War, and I'm still discovering to what extent I was indoctrinated into the bullshit that some people believe until this day.