Billy Murray & Ada Jones, ''Oh! You Coon'' (1908)

[Kirke182]

This is a latter day continuation of minstrelsy when whites donned blackface and strummed banjos. Urban whites were subconsciously looking backwards to a simpler time, their childhoods on the farms they came from. They projected this onto mock slaves--themselves--who are really children with their household chores and not slaves. It came at a time when white Americans were internalizing "white" as a race rather than separate cultures rooted in Europe.

[Burberrycap13isback]

ACTUALLY LMFAO

[misanthropicagenda1]

oh my god seriously? i'm dying of laughter

this used to be ok?

amazing

you candy coon

oh christ i'm gonna burst

cringe humour to my modern 2011 ears