Tomorrow night the Reading Phillies — a minor league team — will give away a special promotional item. It's a small statue of Ryan Howard made up to look like a garden gnome, but some say it resembles a black lawn jockey. Nathaniel Norment, professor and chair of African American Studies at Temple, says the jockey became a racist symbol when it adopted grotesque exaggerations of African-American facial features. "For my generation, in the South, it represents very negative things about black people. If you ever saw this on the lawn of a white person — and it was always a white person — it was something negative."