#2: Oct 17th 2011 at 6:49:43 PM
Um... good for him?
I don't really know how I feel about this, really. Hm.
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joyflower
Since: Dec, 1969
#3: Oct 17th 2011 at 6:51:01 PM
I have heard about that Museum one of these days in my life I want to visit it for Historical Value.
edited 17th Oct '11 6:51:32 PM by joyflower
#4: Oct 17th 2011 at 6:52:28 PM
Yeah, I was surprised when I happened upon the website during some research. I thought, "Why does this exist?".
Well, "Why I Collect Racist Objects" answered my question.
I really would like to see the museum for myself, but unfortunately I don't live anywhere near there.
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The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is exactly what it sounds like: it is a collection of many hundreds of thousands of racist items collected over the years by one man—one very angry man, who wishes to use his anger and hatred towards these objects to teach the visitors of the museum about what Jim Crow really was, and, believe it or not, what it still is.
The official website for the museum is located here. If you happen to live near the Ferris State University, I urge you to go see it with your own eyes. (Although it looks like the museum is closed for this term because it's being moved into a bigger facility!) If you don't, like myself, this website has a great collection of articles written by David Pilgrim, the collector, on the many racist caricatures, Jim Crow, the word "nigger", and so on.
Why does the museum exist?
Well, besides the fact that Pilgrim needed to find some place to store all that crap that wasn't his own house:
For starters, I truly recommend reading Why I Collect Racist Objects.
Due to the other thread about the Tom caricature being brought up, I thought I'd share.
edited 17th Oct '11 6:45:21 PM by annebeeche
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