O'Connor's Reference: Black lawn jockeys

Class: this image was prevalent in yards throughout the South well into the mid-1960s and often beyond. The black lawn jockey is what The grandfather and son see:
http://www.lawnjock.com/images/blackjockey1.jpg

It probably should have dawned on me that many (all?) of you would never have seen statuary such as this. We have come some disdance after all.