Judge — August 3, 1895 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a racist baseball cartoon from Judge magazine using caricatured African American figures and dialect. The title and scene depict a baseball play at what appears to be a segregated Black community ("Darkeytown"). The cartoon shows figures with exaggerated features labeled with names like "Big-Mouthed Johnson" engaging in a baseball "put-out" play. The dialogue uses offensive dialect ("Didn' git me," "Jedgment") typical of minstrel-show stereotyping common in late 19th/early 20th-century American satire. The satire appears to mock both the players' abilities and their speech patterns simultaneously. This represents the casual, normalized racism of the era, when such caricatures were considered acceptable entertainment for white audiences in publications like Judge.