The man's voice could be heard over almost everything else at the fall carnival.

Three tries for a nickel.

Folks heard the promoter yell, hit the new grow in the head and win a prize.

What kind of game with this?

This is two-minute black history.

What you didn't learn in school.

You won't believe what used to be one of the most popular carnival games in America.

There was a jungle backdrop with a hole in the middle.

The premise of the game was to use baseballs to clobber what popped up in the hole before it

disappeared. Want to know what popped up? A black man's face.

As incredible as this sounds, that's not the worst part.

The faces were real.

Actual black men were hired just to have baseballs grown at their head and faces.

The men often suffered horrible injuries.

And what was the name of this barbaric game?

African Dodger.

This game was a sport. And in fact, it wasn't until professional white baseball players showed up

to hurl baseballs at top speed that black workers stopped being Dodgers.

Even then, board games and fake heads that often had exaggerated lips were used instead.

Why was this even a game in the first place?

This game was part of social control that reiterated white supremacy and the disposability

of black bodies. White society has been ingrained with subliminals about our people,

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