One of his daughters died as well.

I don’t need a reminder; actually it was one of the first things I thought of when the news popped up in my feed. News of his death still shocked the shit out of me tho...

Folks erased that years ago. He will go down in history as a legend and if you bring up that he was a rapist, you will be the bad guy.

Somewhere near Edwards, CO, a 36 year old woman whispers “good.”

Did you really just come at a literal Jewish person with your fake-ass outrage? Sit down, you racist, POS troll.

If nothing else, a cool thing for you to do would be to write up a description of your grandfather and his history to put in the box with the book to give it historical context as an object, which will make it a lot more useful to both your family and potential historians. Big museums might not want it, but smaller…

Its incredible just how far up your own arse you can be on soo many things. But let me help you out with some details.

It totally is true and horrifying. I went from having a nice browse to being nauseous and horrified.

As someone who lives in Virginia and likes antiques, it’s not actually that rare to come across this stuff. I can’t count the number of mammy dolls and minstrel show memorabilia I’ve seen. One estate auction I was at last year featured an entire collection of this shit. It’s disturbing, but as a historian I can…

She came to the Royal family with money she earned from her work and estimated $5 million, most woman come into the family with no money of their own outside of inheritance, why are all the other women who married into this family not considered to be gold diggers.

Yes, exactly. What has she done? That was my original question to you. 

“I’ve lived in a small town my whole life. I don’t even know what the word means. There’s been black people in the store and we laugh about it.

“The thing that was even more upsetting to me is the fact that they’re not antiques, they’re replicas.” (I know — it’s weird that them not being antiques is more upsetting to her than the actual racism...)

It won’t happen until we stop “electing” capitalist racists to write and enforce the laws.

Please please PLEASE for the love of all that is good and just in this world (which is not much at all) tell me this story is not true. Because that shit is horrifying.

“Well, actually, as a graphic designer you learn that red-white-black is a really powerful colour combination.” Actual words said to me by an actual graphic designer. Nope, we didn’t stay together; I’m glad you asked.

Yup! Items from a racist past should come to light, but to be replicated for profit?!?!  That is some messed up shit. 

“The thing that was even more upsetting to me is the fact that they’re not antiques, they’re replicas.”

The reason she was upset at the fact that these were replicas is because, not only did they make the originals..but someone felt they were SO great that reproductions were in order!
I was working one day in Mamaroneck NY and stopped into a nice little antique shop watched over by a kindly white haired old lady who…

“This is crazy. How can so few people cause someone so much misery?”