f*cked up $hit

Yes. White folks are notorious for this sort of thing. Look at any issue of Architectural Digest and you will see some picture of some Rich White Person living in Tribeca with a coon eating a watermelon in the background.

Its the new hot shit. Which is why it is unnerving how popular artists such as Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles are. Whether the art is provocative is not necessarily the question but the revival of these images in people's homes and thier popularity came about around the same time...

There is also a hint of this in the figurines Black people collect as well. I am not necessarily talking about the vintage and antique images of Aunt Jemimas, sambos and those sorts of things, but the dollar store figurines made in china that look extremely offensive. But hey mom mom wants a little black cherub and she can't afford the ones created by the Black Love artists in Hallmark or the loco Afro-Chic shop so she gets those...

I wonder how the molds come about for these images... what is the thought process... I would suspect its a nostailgia thing.
 

i worked in a house this summer that had several things like that around, which made me think about why people would want that around.

and i came up with the same conclusion as onelife...most white people don't have any idea about the history of those images. they just think they look vintage, and vintage is generally considered cool.