Worse, many of them glorify the abuse, even the killing, of people solely because they are black. Some of the objects are a century old while others were manufactured as recently as this year. All this stuff is still being reproduced. And it's not being done by right-wing facist groups. There's a new market for it in mainstream America.
Collectors use jargon to soften the negative impact of their inventory.
At this point, the museum is not a true sample of what's out there. It's a sample of what I could afford. A lot of these items are in peoples' homes today. Pilgrim hopes those people will donate their items to the museum, rather than display them in their homes, and some have done just that. Someone had left it anonymously, and I was glad to get it.