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‘NiggerHair Tobacco’ – A Bizarre Moment In Time (PICS & Video)
Now I've seen some crazy sh*t in my life, but this is really ignorant. I came across this bizarre image on the internet... a product called, 'Nigger Hair Tobacco,' manufactured, marketed, and sold from the 1870's-1950's. The advertising material for the product said: “Our grandfathers knew this tobacco and gave the brand its name, NIGGER HAIR, because it was cut in those long, curly strands that make it such a wonderful, satisfactory pipe tobacco – slow burning, cool and fragrant. That distinctive cut caused the…