Title: A saddening Relic of It's Era
Product review: This is a supposedly "humorous" look at Black life in Louisiana around the turn of the century...Tales like "Diada, Daughter of Discord" openly refer to the Black characters as baboons and gorillas. Racial epithets in the descriptions of the Black characters are spewed in almost every story and great fun is made of the ignorance and illiteracy of African-Americans in these tales. One truly horrid episode has a White writer playing a "joke" on the local Blacks convincing them that they will die from a disease called "ancestors" and great fun is made of the Blacks' belief that they are about to die! Amos and Andy was quite enlightened comapred to this! Considering that this was written at a time when lynchings and segregation were widespread toward African-Americans, "More E.K. Means" is a sad relic of its time!
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