“Imagine if children could also buy bags of little toy African-American slaves and their white slave masters, or Jewish holocaust prisoners and their SS Nazi guards, or undocumented Mexicans and their INS border guards.”
“Imagine if the African-American set included little whips and ropes so the white slave masters could flog the slaves that were lazy and lynch those who defied them. Imagine if the border guards in the Mexican toy set came with little nightsticks to beat the illegal aliens, infrared scopes on their rifles to shoot them at night, and trucks to load up those they caught. Imagine if the Jewish and Nazi toys included little barbed wire prison camps and toy trains to load up and take the prisoners to the toy gas chambers or incinerators, batteries not included.”
-From Cowboys and Indians: Toys of Genocide, Icons of American Colonialism, by Michael Yellow Bird
(via gardant)
