The Nations Biggest Collection Of Racist Objects Are All In A Michigan College Basement
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2018
- 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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“History repeats itself. I see things like almost every day, all day, on social media,” one visitor said.
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Nice race baiting vice by posting the Charlottesville link. Like liberals can’t be racist. It’s only a matter of time before you disable the comments
It's just ironic. A complete lack of communication WILL cause history to repeat itself. Vox, Vice, TYT, Infowars, CNN, FoxNews... You guys just don't get it. THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRUTH... That's why y'all didn't understand why Trump won/why people flock to Jordan Peterson. JUST REPORT IT. WE'LL DECIDE HOW TO FEEL ABOUT IT.
did you just heart your own comment lol
just lie to the people. that'll make them trust the media.
History isn't repeating itself, the biggest force of racism right now is the white killings in SA. Are we really meant to take people seriously when they say "like" in the middle of the sentence with no purpose, no one else pick up that it is obviously a statement taken from a tween?
*one
*walks into Museum of racism*
"Wow, this is really racist."
Holmes, you've cracked the case
Ah yes the floor is made out of floor
XD
Yes this car is made out of car
Yeep
If it makes you uncomfortable, then the museum has succeeded.
Exactly. As much as I hate even seeing this stuff, it's absolutely nessesary
not really
in Mexico, nobody talks about the fact that there were millions of Africans taken to the new Spain, present-day Mexico, even the data scarcely reveals that there were only 250,000 Africans when there was even more, the Spaniards were the ones who took the Africans to the new Spain but the mexican ppl always wanted to make invisible downplaying the importance of Afro-descendant ... to this day Mexican history books never talk about the importance of African culture and deny that there were millions of Africans 500 years ago, Until today, Afro-Mexican people are not taken into account, even Mexicans dare to say that there are no african or afromexicans people in Mexico when it is more than obvious that in the souther states of mexico like veracruz ,guerrero, oaxaca etc there was a lot of African influence or on how various Mexican historical figures were Afro-descendants, Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón.
Emiliano Zapata...Gaspar Yanga....Pío de Jesús Pico....Toña la Negra...Vicente Guerrero....JOSE MARIA MORELOS Y PAVON but nobody talks about it mexican ppl only talk abou the mexicas tlaxcaltecas aztecas and mesoamerican native tribes
When there was slavery in Texas, this state still belonged to New Spain ... so yes, many of the slave owners were also white Mexicans (whitexicans) and Creoles with close to Spanish european ancestry, since Mexicans who had close to indigenous ascension had no right to have black slaves
.. but although in Yucatan Mexico still in 1910 you could be a mestizo Mexican and still have the right to have black slaves or even have Mexican people as slaves who were 100% indigenous ... since the mestizos were never friendly with the 100% indigenous people ... the book called Mexico Barbaro talks about these issues many of these crimes in Yucatan were in full 1910 and that continued to happen in such a corrupt country
It doesn't make me uncomfortable
People that are saying; “that’s racist! It needs to be destroyed!” Completely and utterly miss the point.
How??
By destroying all these icons (like the confedrate statues), America would be openly denouncing its racist past..
@@KuhmeyaMayo I think another commenter (@shade247) summed it up pretty well, "[We] must BE REMINDED of history (no matter how awful) in order to ensure it is not repeated." In addition, we can't just destroy history and pretend that these items were never made as...they were. Keeping it all preserved is definitive proof that the history behind it happened. All this old racist memorabilia makes it definitively clear that racism was incredibly common back then.
@@CrazBdazzthat's exactly it, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
@@KuhmeyaMayoGood god some people are stupid
Imagine forcibly bringing people you don't like to your home, then hurt, enslave and insult them for what they are
Exactly
sounds human
imagine thinking all whites were slave owners
@@FAMEROBImagine denying history
@@ClubstepMonsterOfficialif people deny history it’ll repeat itself someday in the future.
That picture of black babies titled alligator bait is brutal.... smh
Did they actually do that? Slaves cost alot of money so they'd basically be paying for over priced bait
Austin S yep.. alligator hunting was super profitable 1800/1900s. white hunters used black babies as bait to catch them because of so many incidents of losing and arm, leg, even their life to catch them. :/
@@michelleguerrero4532 That's so sick
Austin S yep :’(
This is why Humans have no true value.
No one is born racist, it can only be taught.
Thanks, ice bear
Exactly remember when I was a kid I wasnt watching the colour of a person.I was watching the personnality
SweeLow PRO this implies you’re watching their colour now
What if someone is born racist?
Jman 87 wait if that’s true, then where did the first racists learn to be racist?
What an incredible man for taking such horrific things, and turning them into a teaching tool to help people remember and never forget the atrocities committed. In a weird way. It makes you more hopeful for the future in a world where these do not exist. I never would’ve thought he could turn some things so negative into such a powerful message.
Speak for yourself. I think they're hilarious. Gonna go see where I can buy some
I know a few people who have some black memorabilia. Salt and Pepper shakers and a few other things. Slavery was brutal, but as far as the odd piece of memorabilia I agree with you. Some of it is funny
@@Theo-yp4unBased 😂
@@Theo-yp4un Oooh, how edgy.
@@Theo-yp4unlet me know so I can buy some too😂
It is wild to me that were people in factories actually creating this garbage.
just jobs bro
What's even wilder is that if you're in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, North African Arabic countries, Australia, New Zealand, or Israel, you're in land that was stolen from the natives, and the ruling class people there now are pretending to be the natives or identifying themselves by the names of the natives.
Two places where racism should be placed:
museum and trash
That still racist lmao
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw *literally
Omg typity type type.
Crimea River We still have to do that for the trash people who are racist to Asians right now.
@@jezzbeary R/whoooosh sorry im a redditor
Exactly where racism belongs: in a museum.
Reborn Audio good comment, this is the past and it shouldn’t happen again
Pontiac Bandit the alt right 🙄
@@thatgoddamnpotato yep. Alt right is dangerous. I'd go as far as to say they're the reason antifa get a bad rep in the media. Lots of people are alt right because they have no university experience, or little to no understanding how right wing news media created the large influence of the alt right
Pontiac Bandit yes, yes! Finally a person on the internet with a brain! 😂
@Pontiac Bandit you guys think if you’re too the right of Stalin then you’re alt right. Alt right is the very fringe right. The 20 people that show up to the nazi rallies and such. There’s not very many of them. Most of the Democratic Party is very far left though. Approaching Bolshevik territory real fast
People that are saying; “this collection is horrible! It needs to be destroyed!” Completely and utterly miss the point.
if it's destroyed then we forget about the sources and will continue to recreate the racism that it influenced
@@JustinOtherman123 That's why is not good movies from the 40's or older to be edited out that reinforce racist stereotypes, because is almost like an erasure that didn't exist which is simply not true i.e: Gone With The Wind. Is a historical piece reflective of their time we can learn about it to be better.
I've been collecting racist memorabilia for years, but my collection is not even half as large as this one. I used to buy racist souvenirs, mammy cookie jars, sambo statuettes and racist joke books. I wish I could've started collecting these objects earlier in life, but I was just a kid and my parents didn't want things like that in the house.
one thing I’ll never ever understand is how u hate someone because of their skin 😐
@Handsome Squidward Welp you ain't wrong there
You can't just hate them because of their skin or skin color. Of course it includes their culture and the way they behave.
ด.ช.คน มนุษย์ they don’t
agreed n reverse racism as well.
@ I can assure you most of us dont hate Indians only a few actually do and we dont like to associate with them also Indians also said some racist stuff as well for example a black guy who supported him kept on being called the n word but that's in the past and let's just move on now
Notice how carefully crafted and painted these items are. Like they really took the time to create hateful racist demeaning objects.
You know what I mean? I will never understand how a person can waste so much time, and put so much energy and focus into being hateful and disgusting to another person. What do you get from that? What kind of satisfaction do you get from doing that??? It's unfathomable to my mind... 😭
@@simiemandla1542 Greed For Both Money And Power Plus,The Thirst To Achieve "Perfection"
@@simiemandla1542 Sick, twisted obsession!
Everybody knows craftsmanship was better in the 50s
They look like garbage
I’m glad that this Museum exists, though it is horrific that this Museum exists.
that’s a contradiction
@@deagle2yadome696 yes it is
This is amazing. He turned these pieces into something good in a way to learn about the past mistakes and how evil it really was. I would love to visit someday im sure it’ll make me feel upset but happy that we don’t live in those times.
If museums like this make people uncomfortable, then, the place did its job. We need to see things like this in order to learn from the mistakes in history, don't repeat them, and become better people.
Oh yeah. I as a white person would have a very uncomfortable time walking this museum. I don't mean to get all white-sensitive, but it would just upset me to see so much artistic expression of such grotesque beliefs which I individually denounce on full display. Yet this represents a 0.0000000000001% of all the atrocities that stem from the slave trade. The "ROPE" picture made me sick to my stomach.
Exactly. Racism SHOULD make you uncomfortable. Oppression should never ever be something we're comfortable with.
*To forget history, is to forget the diary of mankind.*
So, if these pieces are ‘racist’ because they are caricatures and / or artistic depictions of African-Americans from the ‘Jim Crow’ era, and if America is still ‘systemically racist’ today, ergo does that mean that the character designs from Disney’s _The Proud Family_ are racist too? 🙄
@@fletcherhamilton3177 you're not making sense at all...
I hate to say it, but this is one museum that will never run out of things to exhibit.
The more disgusting things it shows, the more things we will learn, and the better our capability to fight it
I totally agree.
This museum probably will those things only have value because of there history anything after a certain point is plain old stupid
@@gentylermitchell3535 The point isn't that I think they will literally keep expanding their collection infinitely. It's that racism was and continues to be such a widespread and accepted phenomenon, it's likely even into the future that new racist items will be created making new candidates for this museum inevitable.
(unless racists decide to give it up suddenly, but I don't expect that to happen.)
If it were possible to remove all the horrible context to all of this, a lot is really funny, I know that’s not a PC take, but that’s my take.
The take away isn’t funny or cute at all tho, it seems like museum is doing a great job at spreading awareness about this stuff, sadly it takes being slapped in the face with this crap for SOME people to open their eyes... others will NEVER open theirs or even try... but sweeping it under the rug won’t help but neither will laughing at the stuff while not actually thinking about what these things meant, what they mean and a million other things!
All that crap in that museum is real and it was made for people that wanted to buy it... and that stuff is not that old!
I'm glad this collection was preserved and put on public display. Not because I support or relate to the Jim Crow way of thinking by any means, but rather because I believe this was an important era in our history that shouldn't be swept under the rug and forgotten about. The pieces on display there represent the effects racism has on it's targeted groups. It's a great visual way to show us the damage we can cause if we allow ourselves to stoop to those lows. It's also the perfect reminder that just a few generations ago it was who we were. All of it is degrading to the black race, and no matter how insulting it was to them...there was a time when the majority of white people actually thought it was ok to view blacks in this manner. We are all humans, and no race has ever been created to be any better than the next. We should always treat each other with respect and as equals...because that's reality and that's how it is. As we view the history of the Jim Crow era, it's the perfect time to take a long, hard look at ourselves to determine if we are in fact guilty of being racists ourselves. The ignorance of our ancestors is not a burden that's been passed down from generation to generation, but we should still take the time to understand the facts of those times so we know how important it would be to stand together against it if history would ever try to repeat itself.
Those who cannot remember their past are doomed to repeat it
bro the baby picture labeled “alligator bait” and the baby drinking ink angered me
Yeah, not even the innocent little babies are safe from hatred.
all of it angered me
You Poor thing...
You should see a social worker and tell them how you feel.
@@gazinta Huh?? What does a social worker have to do with this video?
good thing you didn't see the actual photos
I had no idea babies/children were referred to as “alligator bait”. What the actual hell
yeah...and edible
They were not just referred to as that. Black children, infants, WERE used as alligator bait. That is literally the tip of the ice berg. Dunking booths. White people used to bury Black infants to their heads and kick them off. No reference here, this happened.
@@kiyosip9298 iirc they have the actual dunking booth on display too
@@kiyosip9298 this honestly makes me feel so disgusted rn.. please tell me this isn't a thing anymore. How can someone WTF Why was this even a thing ????
LIKE TF WHAT IS WRONG W THEM
As someone who isn’t black, but is a POC (East Asian), I’m not against the idea of this. Yes it’s shameful, and plenty controversial, but it’s used in a way to teach society to not make the same mistakes, or at least slowly drift away from those awful sentiments. Keep these in a museum, not to honor them, but to remind people that their ancestors were wrong in many ways, and to teach them to not do the same things.
0:48 is WILD.. thats the gator bait, where slave masters would kidnap babies and use them as bait... 🐊🐊
I feel bad for innocent toddlers taught by parents who were racist to be like them. Then they grew up and taught their kids the smae
Same*
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@@eternalexotix9865 ight grammar police
Exactly! Hate isn’t innate, hate is taught!
But the thing is they grow up and they should understand right from wrong or what's racist and what's not but I get what your saying
You must BE REMINDED of history (no matter how awful) in order to ensure it is not repeated.
But forgetting it is the best way to make sure it doesn't happen again....like, lets all just fucking stop talking about race for every single thing that ever happens ever and we good...
Sadly people are too stupid any more for this lesson.
We're starting to see more and more racism come from the Democrats and their supporters day after day. (Abortion [AKA population control] is #1 in their racist agenda.)
Mighty Blue what does abortion have to do with race or democrats? Nothing here is political
@@mightyblue3426 Sadly people think racism has to do with politics and abortions
@@budgetlifter you realize that is what communists and nazis did so there people didnt know about these things, how are future researchers supposed to know OUR history if they keep the cycle of getting rid of history
Museums like this need to be preserved we should never forget the awful past so that future generations won't make the same mistakes
I mean i know it makes white people uncomfortable but your grandpa had this mindset you need to see this because sometimes when your “annoyed” you start to think like them as well and that is indeed a fact.
Cant believe this wasn’t even 100 years ago. This really happened in the 1900’s.
It's still happening.
more like 3 years ago.
The Obama "games" - I don´t know the US but in EU you get arrested for building/ producing/selling that. Kind of rabble-rousing, just for the president of the states! Can it get harder than that?
And they tell us to get over it
@@moos5221 no its not. no one owns anyone
@@xCmOn3yx777 no one said anything about owning anyone. Racism still happens. I see it constantly. And if you try to speak out against it so many people yell at you for being negative, as if pretending it doesn't exist and putting a smile on makes it magically disappear
I like that these items are not destroyed but placed in a museum where we can learn from them to not repeat our mistakes.
That's what museums are all about. You don't need obnoxious and offensive statues in the middle of the city park...
@Virgin front united yeah do it again i hope you happy in the after life in the hell
@Virgin front united sir hate to break it to you but Ted bundy, probabllyy not in heaven
I just hope we have museums for 1918 pandemic, so we dont repeat everything wrong again. But we did repeat.
They remind us of better times and that's it's not too late to go back
How wonderful it would be to take some of these pieces on tour and display them around the country. I would absolutely take my sons 6 grade class to view and experience this most important part of our history. My husband and I teach him from home, but to see this beyond the safety of our home and love is vital. Kudos to Michigan University Jim Crow museum.
I will tell you a story. I once lived with 2 white guys and other guys from other ethnicities. From the white guys, I felt this “innate fear of being wiped out” which, unknown to them, I believe was influencing their decisions. It was awful. I also felt like they had “white preference”. They would show compassion unto their white kindred on *certain* things, but not the same to their POC (person of color) acquaintances. It would be done only pertaining to certain scenarios, so it often got overlooked (dismissed). But I paid attention because it was directly affecting me, of course. Strange people.
It's horrible that African Americans had to live through this
クリスタルですこんにちは私の名前は not in america lol
And Irish were treated as slaves too in the states.
I just don't see Irish folk screaming repremendations!
@@buttnutt252 because the majority of slaves in the U.S. were black and were treated the worst out of all the enslaved races...
Butt Nutt y yall keep brnging up slavery we still got lynched raped n falsely accused well after slavery .who else went thru Jim Crow ?
@@buttnutt252 why are you saying "we" you didn't do shit. Just because your white and the person that did it is white does not mean you should take responsibility. If someone rapes someone should you take responsibility because you are also human?
Imagine going to the museum and hearing an old mam saying
Ah yes the good old days
Imagine she was black too
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 point of concern
people In general you mean
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 i dont think i’d even be mad, i’d just be confuzzled
OH HECK NOOO *SLAP
Interesting video thank you for sharing. Big fan of vice. I hope to see this museum one day.
I wonder what the collector’s friends thought about him collecting racist memorabilia.
The museum is basically: "here's how terrible humans can be to each other, and this is how you should understand it"
I'm sorry, i typed a lot
Are u Huo Tao 😀😀
@@playboiiwoody_3493 who are u talking to?
Man humans suck
No more like this is how terrible humans are to eachother and this is why you should still hate eachother
Damn, that “alligator bait” print really is disturbing.
I know, my mouth fell open when that came up! So disturbing.
If you didn’t know “Gator bait.” Was a real thing which happens during the times of slavery they would take the toddlers and new borns of black maidens when they would hang up the clothes upon clothing lines, they would hang the children on a stick and when attacked they would kill the alligator and use the skin for clothing etc.
It wasn’t for the fun of it. It’s actual history.
@@zachthomas7810 yes there is testimony, that’s how we know majority of our history but if you wish to say all of that was fake then go ahead, it’s your own theory against those who lived through it and told it while it was passed down for generations.
And as you see there was also merchandise made directly from the tragedy aswell, while mocking it.
aswell as others in modern day who still hold to their testimonies that were told by there great grand parents that it had happened in the past so I doubt all of it is just “fake.” You’ve given no supporting evidence that it was all made up what you said is just an opinion.
Its funny
@@zachthomas7810 it was declared in newspapers in the 1800s, so how’s that not evidence? along with many artistic illustrations, the racial slur aswell as statues, merchandise made on it and testimonies which continue to say the same exact same thing. All of that is, anyway have a good one.
As of present we have no video or photographs but in present day we do have photos of the lynching gatherings.
Wow hard to watch but definitely needed
Reminds me of the field trip we took to the Museum of Tolerance in Hollywood over 20 years ago. Very eye-opening as a youth to see those things and imagine that kind of life.
This is so important, we can’t destroy racist memorabilia we need to keep it within a museum. Teach and further a discussion of what these things represent and what we can learn as we move as a society.
what would you say to old wise black men that say to get rid of rasicm we have to stop talking about it
@@note_finger Stop talking about racism means forgetting history. And remember, once history is forgotten, we tend to repeat the same mistake.
Sorry, but i disagree with the old black guy you mention.
@@note_finger I dont get what you mean. I embrace history, i dont like statues going down. And i also dont understand the Venezuela part.
Darren Atm you're saying history tends to repeat it's self which I agree 100%.. Look at what happened with Venezuela when it's citizens were tearing down statues and rebelling against chavez as well in the soviet union. Look at that history compared to whats going on here in america, do you not see the similarieties? with CHAZ? and far left idieologies. History still tends to repeat its-self even when identified
@@note_finger Tearing down statues is not what i meant by history repeating itself. I was saying that the issue with statue would LEAD to forgotten history and therefore would be repeated again.
We found him😳😳😳 The CEO of racism
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Gamer moment
😐😐
@@nw3473 This is when reddit say r/wooosh because funny
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I went to the University of Wisconsin back in the early '70s, and one of my work study jobs was in the University archives. We would get objects and collections that persons would donate and one of my tasks was unboxing the items and identifying them and a preliminary report for logging them in. One day we got a rather large box from a town in western Wisconsin; and we were stunned to discover that the box contained a well-preserved and extensive collection of KKK robes, accessories and memorabilia. I'm not sure what ever became of it, but none of it was ever put on display during my time at the University library and archives.
The photo with children called alligator bate broke my heart.
Imagine a black guest comes into this guy's home.
I mean, I'm pretty sure anyone would have the same reaction as the black guest.
@Anthony Davis big fan I'm happy u got your ring this year
Hey charlie
oh my go-
I would be so fucking interested
@@seanwilliams7655 why? Hes not racist he just got them racist stuff XD
Boomers: "Times where better back then"
Back Then: *Extreme Racism, Vietnam War, Threat of Nuclear Annihilation.*
@Liberty Prime C.F P.N Huh? It is not better than today? Racism still lives but still significantly lower than ever in US history. Minorities have more opportunity than ever.
Don't forget the serial killers 😑
@Frederick Dorsey 100 black people were shot in Chicago this weekend including a 3 year old boy...and none of them were by the cops... stop your lies you fool
@Frederick Dorsey well you have Obama for starters
Frederick Dorsey you think blacks being murdered by police is a new concept invented in the last 5-10 years??? Lmao. And as a previous comment said, you really think Obama could have had a shor at president just a couple of decades ago? Blackface used to be much more prevalent, there was segregation, black people had to sit in back of the bus, etc To this we are wirst now than back then is incomprehensible.
Some of these pieces are kinda scary💀
I sure do love being traumatized by old memorabilia. Bro belongs in a fnaf fangame.
OH DEAR GOD!!!!
Alligator Bait? ARE THEY SERIOUS?????
I’m 57 years old and I’m beyond words!
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait
I don’t get this one?
Why cant people just understand we all suck equally?
Every person is different, every person thinks different, this is both a blessing and curse.
Charles brown No. Just no. Way to diminish the value of real, serious issues, though.
Joshua French we don’t suck equally. Some are better and some are worse, but it doesn’t relate to skin color
Some people suck more than others... But shouldn't be decided by the color ot their skin...
@@phantasmo9998 If that's your example on what determines an entire continent of people to "suck" then it isn't a strong one.
Imagine the gift shop at this place
Sweet!
Lmfao
Lol
😂
Oh dud..no 😂
This is a very informitive video.
I think it's amazing that there are so many museums dedicated to the celebration of culture, ethnicity, and diversity, but at the same time museums like this one are just as important because they teach humans how not to act and what not to do.
Boomers be like: we were a better generation
Edit: wow this blew up
ThiNGs wErE BeTter BaCk tHeN
Most of this stuff is probably from the 1800s. Some of the best people in my life are boomers. It ain’t right to group them up as such.
@@mateuszjasinski3702 lmaooo 1800s bruh
@@mateuszjasinski3702 Slavery wasn't abolished until 1865 bruh, these type of propaganda only started when Lincoln died and Andrew Johnson helped the south, which then started the Black codes.
Mateusz Jasinski Lmaoooo. This was not from the 1800s.. this was like 1915
And to think the Klan is still around... That's really disappointing to think that people still think that way.
Truly Infamous yes they are around. I saw them have a rally in Atlanta
Truly Infamous hella. Most of them are in law
virgo and scorpio rising real talk
The same things exist with every race, I given up on humanity a long time ago, let all come together to destroy the world
@Lord Stephen but its not acted on
When someone says “hey I want you to meet someone” and then they take you to Hemet Ca I would think I was about to get robbed 🤣
I want to go check this museum out
everthing is funny untill someone asks *"how much for this one?"*
*directly points at kkk costume*
@@johann3771 yo
And frrr someone will ask
Directly point on some guy
why is it funny....?????? racism museum = funny????
Edit: (he said “everything is FUNNY until..,” I’m not saying that the joke is not funny, I’m just pointing out the incorrect use of words in this sentence.)
If you try to ingore or forget the painful parts of our past. You dishonor those who lived it.
Yep but theres alot of people in these comments acting like that they went through this and saying WE suffered
*cough* Germany *cough*
@@horaciogonzalez6056 what's the deal with them modern germans shouldn't feel guilt for it. Germany said sorry.
They suffered so that we could live a better life. They not only suffered physically, but mentally and emotionally
I am my ancestors in a sense. They live on through me. I am the hope they had back then that kept them going.
Brilliant work I wish your museum great success in educating the masses
I doubt there's a souvenir gift shop at the end
I grew up in a very white only area and the first time I saw a black lady who had one of those hair covering on and was kinda chubby and I blurted out "Mommy its Aunt Jamima HIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I love you" I had just turned 4 all I knew was she looked like the lady on the syrup bottle.
My mom was so humiliated and apologized profusely and yelled at me she laughed and gave me a hug and said "yeah honey its me" she told my mom it made her feel like Santa cause she could see that I was in awe of her and was showing her love because I didn't know that kind hate existed. I will always have respect for her reacting that way if that were today with women of this generation they'd probably smack me.
😂😂😂 and u didn’t actually say it to be mean, u said u loved her 🤦🏾♀️ but I do agree that it may not have ended too well in 2021
Why would you tell someone that looks like aunt jemima that you love them, but eitherway very wholesome.
@No dude, stop. Bc Aunt Jemima is Aunt Jemima, everyone loves her
@@ivywomb829 That syrup is literally the best
Idk I think older millennials would also find it cute. Younger ones might be upset you called them old lol.
Fun fact: this museum has stuck around longer than the confederacy did.
it's hilarious how many people tend to forget how pathetic the confederacy really was lmao
“tHe SoUtH wIlL rIsE aGaIn!!!!” Yeah keep saying that for another 200 years
I'm pretty sure democrats are still around.
Well we can all tell who’s offended by this video
@@atom5949 Apparently you or you wouldn’t have been clearly trigged but then again your what like 12? Go play with a stick or something
Cartman should visit this museum 😂
The Jim Crow museum looks like Uncle Ruckus’ dream house.
4:59 Is a depiction of pure evil
Life With Camille this whole video is
Bruh moment
I saw someone reply with LOL to that. Some sick people because that stuff happened
@Jake Funk what's so funny.
@@queeniebeanie3196 lol
Incoming edgy 14 year old white kids trying to make memes about the stuff in the video
Kaio Eller okay and nobody asked
Kaio Eller I-
@@kaio4798 Proud of what exactly?
@@kaio4798 cause it is lol cause you just said something racist
@@kaio4798 bruh you just admitted to racism that's cringe bruh not cool
If people think that this museum needs to be destroyed, theyre absolutely wrong
Having a museum like this prove that we suceed in not being racists anymore, it show us a dark side of us and to learn from it
", but they're not talking about it [race] where their ideas can be challenged."
That last thing he said was powerful. So true.
Discussion is much easier to be had between like-minded individuals or within a group who already agrees with you. The people that need their minds opened up/changed the most are, often times, the least likely to hear the message in the first place....because they just won't listen or because those who speak righteously don't often speak to those that need to hear it most.
Its interesting that when I see Aunt Jemima I think of a lovely black woman... But that same image can be seen so differently.
It makes me sick. The amount of slave imagery used in modern advertising is insane. That most of our country doesn't notice or care deeply saddens me. Aunt Jemma, Uncle Ben's it sick and twisted.
Liberals and Negroes are not thinking logically they are motivated by emotions like children
Aunt jemima reminds me of family dinners and breakfasts and good times with my mom or grandma cooking but damn.... I never knew what it actually meant
I didn't know Aunt Jemima was part of this until now. Is it bad that I still eat her pancakes?
I also thought Aunt Jemima is that lovely grandma who calls you sweet names like “baby” or “boo”.
Guess Alabama isn’t such a sweet home after all.
Never was never will be and that could be said for most southern states that have a lack of Hispanic immigration( Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, south Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia and West Virginia )
Edp4455
“Sour Carolina”
“West Virgins”
@@pdb2k154 speak for yourself
None of those mid/southern states are. They’re full of racist white people
@@T2G-DJT a girl named Carolina that taste sour and a virgin that lives in the west
The people wanting to erase history because it's uncomfortable only want to erase the ones that don't suit their image.
This is important and will educate more people than schools do
I was extremely upsetting and disturbing seeing how things like this are still being made
J.Cole once said in his song High for Hours:
*They came here seeking freedom and ended up owning slaves*
Now think about that for a second
toxiicbozz most of the founding fathers were not proud of slavery but they knew how much of a touchy subject it was so they just kinda ignored it hoping that one day it would disappear.
@@maxv0085 yeah. It was really touchy and during revolutions and the founding of a country, it was a massive priority to unify the nation instead of divide it, and it often came to racism being tucked under the rug. Washington was forced to own slaves, and if he rejected it, the south would probably spark another war.
LEMONHEAD3232 Ahh the privilege the white man has always had of being able to ignore it.
LEMONHEAD3232 thats why george washington owned slaves, right? cuz he was so ashamed of it
@@gwyn2507 Did... did you even read the comment below it?
It a shame that not to long ago objects like this were considered acceptable
...and some are still being made
@@nxmb127 yes even more so now
Not only acceptable but mostly even respected and admired
@@pardalita It is truly a horrible thing
Explain this to me white folks.... why?
What an Incredible collection of history
I live in Michigan and if you go to the antique stores and malls you could build yourself a little collection of stuff like this it’s everywhere
If you watch toddlers of different races play together they have no problem. So racism has to be taught.
to say it has to be taught may be true in some cases but a baby would pet a shark and has no experiences to go off of. it can be taught and adopted from life experiences.
Bruce - Racism is a sinful impulse that is inside every person. Most people control the impulse, but some don't
I had to be taught not to be racist. I remember I disliked Asians, black people, and brown people up until like 3rd grade. I didn't like their facial features and I was envious that they had darker skin than I did. Part of it was because my family always talked about how beautiful my tan skin was (I'm adopted and a quarter Mexican) so I would get envious of people who had darker skin. Some reason I didn't like Asian's eyes. I can't pinpoint why but I would look at Asian kids in the hallway and the anger I felt was satisfying to me. I agree with Horse Sense. I think racism is hardwired in the human brain and people need to be taught not to think racistly. I don't think racism can be totally erased in a human's brain. It would be as difficult to do that as it would be to erase sexuality from a human's brain. I think racism is a defense mechanism that perhaps helped us in prehistoric times for some purpose but now isn't needed and causes problems for our species.
IT IS TAUGHT WTF
Ryan W You Need To Read The Bible
For a country that always bangs on about how free it is and was, it wasn’t very free at all. Rotten to the core.
still not free.
Rory Doyle never was never will be all we do is follow what society tells us is right and wrong
@Dude ThatsMySkull not if we can help it....your enslavement and extermination is just a matter of time, tbh.
It was built after a genocide, after all
@Shaggy Rodgers read the comment above mine.
This is really interesting, i would like to go there someday. History is very fun and fascinating
Same here. But looks a lil disturbing.
The comments under this video never fail to surprise me
I don't understand why people hate or dislike someone bc of their skin colour, or culture. I don't get it.
Power, ignorance, or profit. Maybe all 3 sometimes
@@Grim_sights So...capitalism.
Twitter
Go to Chicago
You'll see
@@transfo47 oh boy … you’re very smart
it’s absolutely disgusting. humanity sickens me. the fact that hate can be based off of something as simple as skin colour, baffles me.
We’re all people just because just because they’re different doesn’t mean you treat them less fairly. racism sucks
Jack Alvin it really does. humans love to hate
Lindsey K I gotta respect that you didn’t go straight to reverse racism like most fools that watch videos like these.
Lindsey K look at South Africa
Lindsey K look at ottoman enslavement of whites
Can you imagine not knowing whats down there and you just happen to be putting a box down there and you drop the box and you see all of this !!!!!
3:38-3:47....lol Did that guy mimic the ladies scream? 🤣🤣🤣
“AmErIcA iSn’T RaCiSt, YoU’rE JuSt sEnSeTiVe”
preach 😭😂 this country has a ways to go
That’s why I’m afraid to travel the world, especially America. (I’m from Puerto Rico)
skurfy XD whatever you do,don’t come here,America is not the place to visit,especially with all of this COVID pandemic
Q͜͡u͜͡e͜͡e͜͡n͜͡ M͜͡a͜͡k͜͡a͜͡y͜͡l͜͡a͜͡ I wanted to go to florida but I changed my mind 😭
skurfy XD I been to Florida,it’s not bad,it’s just hot sometimes
I'm black, so this kinda hurt me. But if you don't know your past, you won't have a future. Plus, at least they're not pretending this didn't happen
Sis i always heard the slang colored when they talk about black peapol asuming that whites think that white color is the norm and the blacks are the one colored i was thinking about for so long in my head and came to a conclusion what if the black peapol aren't the ones who are colored they are the norm but the white peapol are the ones who were bleached out from colour yeah weird idea some peapol may call me rascist for calling white peapol bleached but im white so 🙂
I'm also black but some of the stereotypes kinda describe me sadly I like KFC, watermelon, koolaid but not as much as those racist cartoons say I almost cried when I saw the baby drinking ink and the sign saying "N**ger head" people who made those and supported them where SICK
@@mohamedouadoude3264 i mean no thats not how it works skin colour comes from melanin. absence of it creates white or clear in other words colourless. while having more melanin or pigment makes your skin more coloured/pigmented
@@antonioheuvel3080 cool thanks for the info but you know i was only jooking
@@mohamedouadoude3264 "peapol"
I'm from Latin America, so I don't understand all the details of racism in the US. We used to have that Aunt Jemima (tía Jemima as we called it) pancake mix brand. Very popular and with very good reputation. So we didn't really understood why they changed name and eliminated the portrait of the smiling lady. In fact, sales of the same product under the Pearl Milling Company name plummeted and eventually vanished from supermarkets. Sorry if it is too much to ask but, can someone please explain to me why the smiling lady needed to be eliminated?
For some context, many products in my country have portraits of people of color and no one thinks of those as being evil, there's no negative connotation to them. There's Aceite Ideal with the portrait of a black woman, and Quetzalteca that used the image of a Maya woman. There's an ice cream type we calla "morenaza" which basically means something like "beautiful black woman".
I'm just trying to understand.
In the U.S. “minstrel shows” were a popular form of theater where white people wore black face paint and acted out stereotypes of black people. It was evil as hell, and continued after slavery was abolished.
This is what grandpa’s garage sale looks like👴🏻
Oh my God... I can't believe I never realized that's what Aunt Jemima was supposed to be. It seems so obvious now that it's been mentioned.
I never saw her as something demeaning not racists.
yep it checks out.
Black face brand mascot = racist .
White face brand mascot = white supremacy .
Lightened up black face = somewhat acceptable , but completely whitewashing history
Aunt Jemima sucks
Uncle Ben is the same
all I saw was a lady trying to sell good ass pancake mix and syrup
3:37 "This is really racist... That's also sexist... This is a wonderful piece!" Lmao!
Ikr lmao
I think they said about how impactful the piece is
You know it’s a great piece when it’s racist AND sexist
that's how collectors normally speak omg but it sounds so wrong
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These days you only have to scroll through Twitter or Instagram to end up in a racism museum.
You shouldn't turn off the comments in your videos. These discussions are important
I can’t imagine the pain and struggle black people went through man this is so sad 😞
@Pantherzz
Everyone goes through struggles bro.
Zart african americans have been oppressed for so many years now, they struggle way more in this society just because of the color of their skin.
No it's not. Africans sold other Africans. It's not your fault white man.
@@sngraves2390 Hush hush, dear slavery denier
but they were enslaved by their own kind and sold to early colonist... are we just going to forget about that; when all this hatred for white people that werent even born yet well after slavery ended?
Im not white, I love dark humor, I rarely get offended, but this is still so unsettling to watch. The baby one makes me sick.
@@dani.29 dang bro you're so quirky
The then you love soft ass dark humor, and see weak ass stuff if its unsettling to see that😂😂
@@subsub3460 you’re one of the boys 😩
@@subsub3460 wow, we got a professional edge lord rating peoples dark humor.
@@pixuveni5246 thanks bro
I'm still sad they took Aunt Jemima off the pancake boxes,I was born in 1991,I grew up with my beautiful, precious,happy,sweet looking Aunt Jemima,it brings back so many memories,me and my Hispanic family. We had no idea, being I'm first generation American,the story behind Aunt Jemima. Very sad all together 😔💔
Appalling! The alligator bait was the absolute worst. Heart breaking
They did actually use BABIES as alligator's bate like wtf is wrong with these people
Short & plain answer they spiritually/psychologically F up.
The same thing wrong with literally every other place in the world, people with problems and using slaves as just disposable objects
@@AfroPick82 psychologists and egyptians used to torture babies mentally (and sometimes even physically) just to prove their messed up theories were true and now our unviersitys teaching us about it.
should use politicians instead
No
This is the best thing to do with shameful memorabilia. I understand the urge to destroy it, but preserving it is better because it's an honest depiction of the thoughts people had in the past and can teach us to be better.
Oh wow, hi, I know you!! Also I totally agree. This is proof that racists can't erase what happened, no matter how hard they try to minimize it.
Agreed. We should preserve it forever and laugh at it....
As a history buff, I am entirely in favor of preserving artifacts like these. They serve as a tool to help us learn from the past to act better in the present.
You can just drop the "had in the past" part and just change it to "have" cuz in over 60 years things haven't gotten better.
@@doritosdaman That's odd, can you vote ?
Do you have every right that whytes do?
Can you benefit from Afirmative Action?
You can get jobs when others were better qualified, and you can get into schools when there are smarter kids that were denied emission....
Really love these pieces shown in this video. Would love to own a few