⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵The name of the game was "Hit The N****r Baby" or the "African Dodger". This was a racist carnival game in which baseballs, eggs, and even rocks were thrown at the heads of Black(cont) #ProudWokeHistory #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy talkafricana.com/hit-the-nigger…
people. Mark my words, friends; there will be ignorant people who will jump on this thread and say: "Well, no one forced them. They volunteered." Those same people will overlook that fact that the Black people who participated in this dehuminizing game were destitute. (cont)
This racist carnival attraction began around 1880. There were many versions of the game. In the "Hit The N****r Baby" version, actual Black children would stick their head through a curtain, and attempt to dodge objects thrown at them. At some point(cont) wikiwand.com/en/African_dod…
wooden racist caricature heads replaced children at some carnivals; however the games in which a live Black person participated was the most lucrative. Despite the obvious brutality of hitting someone in the head, it was a popular carnival game, (cont) allthatsinteresting.com/african-dodger
especially for those who loved nothing more than injuring Black people for fun and recreation. In fact, it was so popular, someone had the idea to invent a version of the game that could be played at home (below). In the real world, there was an instance in 1908, (cont)
an "African Dodger" named William White was the target of carnival-goers in Hanover, Pennsylvania, where a squad of actual baseball players took turns throwing hard balls at his head. According to the source, White sustained (cont) snopes.com/fact-check/rac…
horrible injuries and subsequently retired from dodging. Over time, the African Dodger game would evolve into dunk tanks. One variant, at Chicago's Riverview amusement park, was named "Dunk the N****r" until the early 1950s when it was renamed African Dip. (cont)
For those who say, "But that was a long time ago, blah, blah, blah..."; this racist inhumane form of fun for White people ended in the 1950s! Some of you were around back then either participated or witnessed it. Human zoos were also popular, but (cont) reportwire.org/the-dark-histo…
that's another thread. I will repost it for those who missed it. For those of you who love to play dunk games today, you just learned its horrible racist origin. Keep that in mind when you throw that ball at the target, folks. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2012/…
@eddsmitty Eddie thank you for educating us about the specifics of the horrific brutality of systemic racism. The "anti-woke" movement is blatantly racist and needs to be fraught at every point. No one but a vicious racist would stop truthful but horrific history from being taught.
@eddsmitty Thank you for this education, Eddie. Everyone should know about these atrocities that continued until recent history and still impact people today.
@eddsmitty This brand of casual monstrousness towards Black folks, not so very long ago, is as important to know about as it is stomach-turning. Thank you again, Eddie, for waking us up.
@eddsmitty So are the Dodgers named after this sick game? 😳
@eddsmitty @jerrieskid Holy cow!! This is shocking. 😮 Thanks for posting.