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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by lupusreal on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:09PM (#42391509)
> That wasn't a prevailing stereotype back then [...] The idle black man stereotype comes from the 1960s and later and originates in the US.

I dispute that and present this racist cartoon from the 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_Me_Mama_with_a_Boogie_Be...

More like it can be found. Lazy black people was a common trope in minstrell shows and similar.

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Re:The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the ... by boomboomsubban on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:29PM (#42391758)
For an example from a century earlier, the "father of American minstrelsy" Jim Crow https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/who/index.htm
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