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...)

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  1. 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. Little Rock integration protest, 1957.

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

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  6. Thinner, yes, but also noticeably uglier.

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

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

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  9. 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. Aw, the democrats at their finest.

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