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Originally Posted by aerovette
I recall a recent discussion over lawn jockeys and what they symbolize to people. It really sucks that as a kid, I had no thoughts about lawn jockeys anymore than I did a stone lion or a birdbath. It was just an ornament. It was not until someone made me believe it was wrong, that I made any racial connection. All my young years, I simply thought it was a guy that guided horses around and used a lantern if it was dark. When it was in a yard, I thought it was used to guide guests to the home.
The innocence of youth is more valuable than gold.
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Age 71 here, and in Md. just outside DC, used to see quite a few of them, wasn't until HScrewal that I bothered to ask about one of them......
been ME having one, I'd painted the face/whatever white.....just for shits and giggles.....in FACT I saw one that had been done to, many years later.....
