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⌈ Secret Post #2510 ⌋

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It means while the portrayal was meant to be positive, it was both invoking an extremely racist institution (crows = Jim Crow laws) for a laugh, as well as perpetuating an image of black personality, one that fed into a much broader cultural narrative of blacks - especially black men - as being lazy and high. Jovial, maybe, but still lazy and "too jovial" (re: intoxicated, weather from smoking or drinking or something else) and not reliable for anything more than, say, giving advice to hapless kids. Meant to be positive, but if you are a black man looking for a job and every white guy thinks of you as having the same personality (and more importantly, reliability) as those crows, then it becomes a negative.

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