Just a few miles south of the NC border along the coast:
Just a few miles south of the NC border along the coast:
Damn funny, and surprised the natl association for permanently offended colored people haven’t raised hell. Maybe it’s black owned.
Point I was making is that a tar baby was a home made doll which poor farming folks made for their kids out of molded pine tar— a doll made of pine tar and women would sew small clothes to put on and make hair weave small wigs for the head. Pine tar— as any would know is light amber yellow, and moldable with warmth/heat. There are examples in Smithsonian.
In practical use, the dolls would get dropped in the dirt and gradually take on a dark dirty color. But... they were never made in the image of a black baby, or made out of what we would call asphalt or oil tar (they couldn’t be made that way. It is an abuse of Southern history to ever imply or say that a tar baby was “racist” or “bigoted” or had anything to to with negroes (other than if they were made by and for negroes, in the same way the poor whites made them). This has been yet another bugaboo put together by liberal history re-writers (even showed up as a “hate” claim against someone who had an Indian Black Sambo doll (which, in India referred to a a real black skinned class of people and they have Sambo dolls).
Thanks for posting. Just trying to correct the record, and stop the perpetuation of Southerner abuse (right up there with re-writing history, and removing monuments— just like the communists do and did).