Sword Canes

[churchmouse]

Thank you for sharing. It's good to know where you come from, even if it's an ugly place that you look back on with sadness and regret. I have a personal bit of ugly history from the roots, 1827 to be precise, of my family here in Indiana and know only too well how jaded and full of hatred people were and even can be still today.

Found out some disturbing things about my dads side of the family. Not pretty, not pretty at all. Times were far different in "The Day" compared to now.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

This is from history, an ugly racist history, this in no possible reflects what INGO or what I think:

The stereotype of the African-American from the 1870s into the 1920s was a "razor toter" (a straight razor) who engaged in crime and disorderly conduct. This stereotype manifested itself in law in anti-weapon "Son of Ham" laws in the South and in the North against razors, "unusual knives", icepicks, inter alia. The anti-weapon laws that you find in Indiana are motivated by racial (and religious) prejudice such as this bigoted stereotype.

This was only a history lesson. I mean no offense nor do I think that such stereotypes are motivated by anything other than stupidity and ignorance.

Sounds like the same place blue laws came from.