This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

April 9th, which we didn't talk about yesterday on purpose, was the day that Robert Lee surrendered.

And they said on that day, because again, as you you mentioned the vast majority of people in

the South did not own people they did not own human beings they may have

aspire to and the vast majority of people that died in the civil war fighting

for the South did not own human beings. They didn't become galvanized until

Robertie Lee surrendered and then there was this whole us versus them, south versus north.

The whole Confederacy actually became galvanized around that

flag and around this notion of southern pride and heritage and Northern

aggression and Northern aggression which was a campaign.

So I wanted to talk about that too, you know, when you think about propaganda and marketing

and the ways in which you have to categorize people, which Frederick Douglas and others fought vehemently

against by comporting themselves a certain way.

But they used cartoonists, and I was thinking about the use of cartoons and the use of you know newspaper not just the

columns the the images of black people with the exaggerated lips and the wide the

over white of the eyes and the wide the over white of the eyes and the just the dumb look you know and in the

the the the feet you know bare feet and the watermelon and all of that in every

single image on purpose that was what was being

disseminated to the masses about who we are that's right and Tom Burrell's book

Brainwashed challenging the myth of black inferiority. He talks about this as the

black inferiority campaign. It was literally a multi agency, multi industry,

multi century long campaign to create an image of black people that prior to that time did not exist.

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