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It's interesting that you showed a picture of the "fiel' Nigroes" but to depict the "house negroes" you merely showed a picture of a nice looking house with a well manicured front lawn which alone exposes your whole biased stance!
Thank you for pointing that out.... really.
I thought about that too, and since I did think about it it's not really biased.
It's easier to depict a 'field negro.' There are plenty of pictures for that. All I had to put was 'slavery' and 'picking cotton' and there they are.
House negroes, not so easy to depict. The first thing to come to mind about 'house negroes' is the plantation, so the plantation was what I put.
What pictures come to your mind when speaking of a house negro? A black person that works inside the house. Well can't that be a paid domestic? A paid babysitter? Can't that look like they are cleaning their own house?
Now I could have found of picture of negro inside the house... doing what exactly? Old pictures of white folks with their black mammies sitting beside their white children does not exactly convey 'house negro' to me. I don't think 'mammy the maternal figure' is not exactly what folks had in mind when they say 'house negro.' Mammy was one worked the fields in her youth, then when she got too old to work the field, she went to the house as a cook, maid, or babysitter.
'Scrubbing floors' got me a whole buncha pictures of industrial floor scrubbers and buffers.
Next time ask, and than you offer what better pictures I could have used to denote what a 'house negro' looks like.
Matter of perception. First, you are comparing a house to person. THAT is unbalanced. Plantations are always kept in fine shape, so they never look 'frustrated, tired, and plotting.' Secondly, house negroes, even tho not depicted, can be very 'frustrated, tired, and well... they get accused of plotting against their field brethren all the time.Your depiction of a "beautiful house" (light skinned) as opposed to frustrated, tired & plotting (dark skinned) "Field Negroes" is, in a word, un-balanced!