Shoot me for saying so, but it looks like minstrelsy to me.

BUT as we all know, African Americans wrote a lot of THAT, and as I have said before, some of that was "coded" too, and may have had a host of significances in its time.... and the "worst" of minstrelsy can be done in our time with great redemptive power.

It is what it is-- whatever it is. For me, it's enough to have more material, no matter its original source or intent, from the mosaic of a time I wish we all knew better.

~Susan