A black woman is under fire for having a lawn jockey in her yard. Her neighbors who seem to lack an education are up in arms. They are accusing her of having a racist symbol on display and they are butt hurt over it.
Sandra Dee McNair declares that the lawn jockey is not a racist symbol and that the lawn jockey was used for the Underground Railroad. Runaway slaves could find a hot meal and a place to sleep for the night if the jockey had a tail on it’s coat. A striped shirt meant that slaves could trade in their exhausted horses for fresh ones. A green ribbon on it’s arm meant it was clear to stop and red one meant stay away.
But the truth is that it really wasn’t…
