Woman Stuns Upset Neighbors by Telling Them What “Racist” Lawn Jockey Really Means

In our politically correct society, people have been known to cry “racism” over anything and everything imaginable.

One woman in Connecticut was recently told by friends that one of her lawn ornaments — a black jockey holding a lantern — was racist and that she should take it down.

However, the woman knew better, and to set the record straight, she wrote a post on Facebook explaining what the statue really meant.

Sandra Dee McNair was told by a few of her friends that her “lantern footman” was inappropriate.

“I’ve had black people say you shouldn’t have that out that way, ‘it makes people think you are a racist,’” she wrote on Facebook, noting that she always laughs when people try to tell her it means something offensive.

“I’m really amazed at how a lot of people don’t know the real meaning behind these statues, so they vandalize them, b*tch about them being racist, etc.,” McNair wrote.

In fact, decades ago, the image of the black footman holding a lantern actually signified that the home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

These footmen were coded, based on what they were wearing, to mean different things to slaves trying to escape captivity.

For example, a striped jockey’s shirt meant that this was a place to swap horses, while a footman in a tailed coat meant overnight lodgings/food, and a blue sailor’s waistcoat meant the homeowner could take you to a port and get you on a ship to Canada.

McNair has laughed at the irony of people calling her statue racist, when in reality, those who used to have these in their yards “were likely the LEAST racist” people of society.

Woman Stuns Upset Neighbors by Telling Them What “Racist” Lawn Jockey Really Means