Along with the triggering effect and the callous description of the item, what is equally horrible is how readily this artefact gets listed / described as "THE ART AND HISTORY OF BLACK MEMORABILIA."
It is not black memorabilia, it is slave memorabilia, there is a huge difference.

That the seller of the piece and the author of the book cannot even distinguish between the two speaks volumes about how they see black people, yet they will claim to be post-racial and accuse us of being over-sensitive.

Slavery and the slave trade is not one and the same as black history, black art or black culture. History and art is what a culture creates and what defines that culture. Black people did not create the transatlantic slave trade, nor does it define us. It is something that happened to us, but there is much more to black history and culture than slavery.

I agree with you.

Well said both Womanist Musings and Hasan Minhaj.

I just viewed the commercial for the first time. I don't believe for one moment that this was accidental racism. They knew good and well what they were doing, but thought they could get away with it.

Black men like Kevin Hart please do yourselves a favour and instead of coming up with a million tired excuses about how evil black women are so therefore you had no choice but to find yourself a white woman, just be honest and admit that you despise your dark-skinned black mother for ever giving birth to you, and that you are so insecure and jealous of white men that the best thing you can do to become like one is to "acquire" a white woman.

And I won't even get into the fact that we all know full well that the black men who approach black women in the street who they don't even know are never decent, polite or friendly, or dressed like the guy in the comic strip. We all know that these men are totally incapable of approaching a black woman unless their commentary is filled with vile, sexual references about our butts, breasts and other body parts, what they would like to do to us, or threats of physical violence when we don't fall swooning into their arms.

He sounds creepy and dangerous as hell. He's a scorpion because he is trying to fool you with the words coming from his mouth, but at the same time he is stinging you silently and deadly with his tail.

Black people had better wake up and learn to think critically around people like this. Far too many of us will take the fact that he plays African drums and has learnt about the slave trade as evidence that he is "cool" and an ally of black folks and black culture.

I was done with this woman since way back in the nineties when she gave a magazine interview blasting the woman who Mike Tyson raped. Called her a liar and said that even if the accuser was telling the truth, she was a bitch and a traitor to the Black race because a black woman should never betray a black man. I see all these years later her paternalistic, condescending attitude has not changed.

They have to plead four and five times for the child to stop misbehaving in the store because they did not instill discipline in the child consistently from an early age. And note I said discipline, NOT smacking, spanking or whatever. You can discipline a child from an early age and teach them to behave by other methods such as taking away of their priviliges, firmly talking to them, etc. There are some parents who only have to speak firmly to their child once and the child will listen and stop misbehaving. I personally know a few parents who do this, and it has never taken any spanking or threat of spanking for them to properly discipline their children.

Why do you have to spank the child if they are in danger of being burned? Quickly and firmly removing the child from the area of danger - i.e. the fire - can also work just as well.

I agree 100% with you Sage Mahodsadha.

Exactly. There are many black men out there who love it when white women talk about them like this.