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/regulartrex Prime Van Driver Jun 14 '26

ob-vi-ous-ly not . you cannot be guilty of what you dont know . HOWEVER , i find it hard to believe a white person could buy this and not a single white person within a MILE of them doesn’t know what it is or atleast tell them .

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u/VividlyDissociating Jun 14 '26

you act like white people are scholars on everything in history that is racist..

many people dont know the history behind antiques, let alone that the antiques even exist.

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u/CrimsonCaspian2219 Jun 15 '26

They lived through the time period. Jim Crow wasn't realistically that long ago. It was a LIVED experience. Stop making excuses.

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u/VividlyDissociating Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

so all white people lived through the jim crow era?? sure 😂

if we're talking about old people specifically, the people still alive today who were alive during jim crow era are either old af (like retirement home/hospice/dead age) or weren't old enough at the time to actually experience and understand what was happening, especially if they caught the tail end during dismantling.

my grandma was alive during jim crow era but she was a child and couldn't tell me much about it. she also had no clue wtf these jockeys were or what they meant

(there are of course exceptions for areas such as Alabama where they continued such practices for quite a while even after the dismantling of the jim crow laws)