He told some amusing plantation experiences, recollections of old Iberville and his youth, when he hunted `possum in company with some friendly
darky; thrashed the pecan trees, shot the grosbec, and roamed the woods and fields in mischievous idleness.
"Shall we let this
darky drop all at once?" inquired Joe.
This is illustrated by a story told of a coloured man in Alabama, who, one hot day in July, while he was at work in a cotton-field, suddenly stopped, and, looking toward the skies, said: "O Lawd, de cottom am so grassy, de work am so hard, and the sun am so hot dat I b'lieve dis
darky am called to preach!"
First, it was "Treat my daughter kind-i-ly," and then she swung into old-fashioned
darky camp-meeting hymns, beginning with:
Maybe you won't believe it, but some days for hours I just lie in the sun like a
darky boy, not even thinking.
and BOWSE this timber forward."--"I say,
darky, blast your eyes, why don't you heat up some pitch?"--"Halloo!
Blackface, a form of makeup used predominantly by nonblacks to represent a caricature of a black person, gained popularity in the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky
darky."
Readers must therefore ponder how the book's inexplicable omission of the particularly insidious and popular subgenre of songs known as "coon songs" makes sense, while songs with the just as stereotypical "happy
darky" figure show up throughout the book, with the hollow insistence that they offer "an idealized image of the southern African American" and are thus positive in nature (79).
Meanwhile, Green Street star Geoff Bell plays the part of
Darky Mulley.
Shatul aka Toolius and Amey aka
Darky successfully hit world records on Cinebench, Geekbench 3 Multicore, GPUPI 100M for CPU, Cinebench R15, wPrime 1024M and HWBOT Prime.