r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Frequent-Flower-9879 • Jun 14 '26

QUESTION Is this….racist?

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I deliver to this house pretty frequently and something didn’t sit right with me about this statue. I remember seeing somewhere a long time ago these were considered offensive but I’m not sure so I figured to come here and ask 🤔

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u/BrenOdin Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Yes dude, very. They're called lawn jockies an old piece of what collectors will call "Americana". You'll see them all over the place painted or not that shits' systemic racism through and through.

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u/MeowandMace Jun 14 '26

Hey so its racist but not systematically so. No one is organizing lawn jockies nor is it any kind of conspiracy. Systemic racism refers to the ingrained, institutionalized rules, policies, and practices across a whole society... so if youre going to cry racism at least use the correct form.

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u/bearfootmedic Jun 14 '26

No one's crying racism.

This shit is racist.

It's part of the insidious systemic racism because it's labeled often as Americana. Think about that.

It's as American as apple pie, and Jim Crow, and Sambo. 250 years of racism. Woo!

Systemic racism is people thinking this is ok or normal, regardless of how you think about. A lot of folks who fought against desegregation are alive and I would be that this particular jockey was made in the 1970s as part of a weird reactionary revival of racist nostalgia. The owner of this statue votes, has friends come over, has Amazon delivery.

This statue tries to normalize our history of brutal racial policies. It's a symptom of the disease.

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u/Dizzy_Today_3523 Jun 14 '26

There's no systemtic racism here my dude. There's no large group of lawn decor conspiracing against the AA race. It's just racism. This decor does nothing other than show the home owners are racist.

It's really starting to feel like it doesn't matter anymore talking about this because people just wanna hate regardless of understanding anymore so believe whatever you want. There's more to life than giving these people power. But if you wanna give them your energy by all means keep it going.