A reader has submitted a comment on minstrelsy by E-mail:
I totally agree with you, Bill. The insidiousness of racial parody and stereotypes does a special type of violence that picks up where the lynch rope ends. It is a blow to a person's innate dignity as a human being and his intelligence as a divine creation.
Beyond the violence, the bloodshed, the almost Biblical excesses of the Civil War, the religious justifications for enslavement, parody and minstrelsy are like a Pleistocenic bacteria that combines hatred and racism into an acceptable marriage.
The drawing reeks of disdain and contempt. The upshot of this depiction is that, no matter what else a Black man achieves, he cannot shed his primordially clownish nature.
I will certainly disperse the link.
Best wishes,
E.D.
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