The Great MLK Read: Martin Luther King Versus Aunt Jemima

The Wolfish Context Surrounding the female Happy Negro and Weak White Liberal

My gosh, Look at all the black people lining up for an autograph (none, there’s none, they are all white and believe they are meeting a real enslaved domestic servant, not just an actress who was an ex-slave)

The Happy Negro is one of the greatest myths used by white confederates and segregationist throughout American History up until the 1960s. There’s no question from what I’ve heard and studied that among black American women and even men that black American women are the backbone of the Black American communities and families around their country. So why am I pitting MLK against Aunt Jemima?

I could be wrong there and will stand corrected about my basic understanding that black American are the backbone of their communities. But that strength of survival hides underneath it a white conservative manufactured myth used for political power to repress them.

But that myth used by white conservative powers was no longer needed, thanks in no small part to Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights movement helped empower black women, and the “tamed” female domestic, giving them great voice and freedom. In the 1940 census, for example, 59.5 percent of employed black women were domestic workers. That means of the 14.1 million black Americans, by my very rough estimate, which puts the number of black domestic workers in the millions.