Talk:The Artificial Nigger

Possible error referring to the statue as a lawn jockey
In the story it's never actually referred to as a jockey or even described similarly to one. In fact, it's more similar to a Jim Crow caricature than any type of common jockey statue. Below is the section from the story describing the statue: "He had  not  walked  five  hundred  yards  down  the  road  when  he  saw,  within  reach  of  him,  the  plaster  figure  of  a  Negro  sitting  bent  over  on  a  low  yellow  brick  fence  that  curved  around  a  wide  lawn.  The  Negro  was  about  Nelson's  size  and  he  was  pitched  forward  at  an  unsteady  angle  because the putty that held him to the wall had cracked. One of his eyes was entirely white and he held a piece of brown watermelon." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.33.59.146 (talk) 04:59, 17 February 2020 (UTC)