Blog Post #5

Since i am doing my paper on racism i came across this article that talked about a man who collected black memorabilias. All of them were of black people. He had them everywhere in his house and loved to look at them. Now this guy was a white guy, he had everything from topics on slavery, and discrimination. People made assumptions that it was racist. He just loved to collect them. People thought that these artifacts should be in the museums instead of in his house. They were worth something and people also tried to make him off to be someone who was just using it in a bad way. So what? The author wanted to show that it is just a simple guy who had a significannt hobby and that's not what everyone was assuming. He had little statues of black people as well. People just assumed the worse because of the past that we have all went through in the past with discrimination. He likes to collect them because they showed chracter of how people lived in those time of days and what it mean't to him. However that is not how everyone else saw them.