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menstrual shows were a popular form of
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entertainment in the 19th century where
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white performers in blackface portrayed
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exaggerated and demeaning stereotypes of
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black people these performances often
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included scenes of black characters
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eating fried Chicken and watermelon
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reinforcing the association of these
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foods with racial inferiority and
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laziness the Ridiculousness of racism is
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that slaves that built so much of
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America that worked from sun up to sun
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down were portrayed to be lazy the min
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show character Jim Crow from which the
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segregation laws took their name often
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depicted black people as simple-minded
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and obsessed with these foods and of
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course there is that one film we keep
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coming back to when we talk about race
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relations in the US Birth of a Nation
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This Racist film that celebrates the
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founding of the K clux Clan aka the KKK
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was a big hit in 1915
