28 May 2011

Not that long ago...

Things like this were happening when I was a child. 

Via Reddit, where note is made of how people were thinner then (and protest signs had proper spelling.  And better fonts...)

10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 28, 2011 at 9:32 PM

    I'm not sure when this pic was taken, but that is a 48 star flag. Maybe they couldn't afford the newer flag.

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  2. MinnesotastanMay 28, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    Little Rock integration protest, 1957.

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  3. Mrs PatelMay 28, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    Via Reddit, where note is made of how people were thinner then (and protest signs had proper spelling. And better fonts..


    One could easily draw a racist connotation from that comment

    :-)

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  4. AnonymousMay 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM

    Yeah, people were thinner then because of malnutrition. The South had Kwashiorkor. Not until Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program did that become a thing of the past.

    Altho, I suspect it's back because of all the cut-backs to safety net programs.

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  5. ikMay 29, 2011 at 1:02 AM

    These people don't look malnourished to me; my estimation of BMI would be 19 or 20.

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  6. UnknownMay 29, 2011 at 6:52 AM

    Thinner, yes, but also noticeably uglier.

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  7. DanMay 29, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    They were right. Turn on a TV lately? Live in America? Are you blind?

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  8. AnonymousMay 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    Pictures like these have a place in textbooks right next to ones where people are opposing gay marriage.

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  9. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM

    This actually gives me hope that the problems we're having now will be resolved more quickly than I had thought...you know, not at all.

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  10. AnonymousAugust 25, 2013 at 12:18 AM

    Aw, the democrats at their finest.

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