So, the folks who tried to prevent a black girl from going to school in 1957 are opposed to...

[demmiblue]

So, the folks who tried to prevent a black girl from going to school in 1957 are opposed to their grandchildren learning about how they tried to prevent a black girl from going to school in 1957.

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[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. If they are still alive today,

that statement is likely true. I wonder what their grandchildren would think of the ones in this picture yelling at the student.

[Irish_Dem]

3. 30% of the US population probably approves of the behavior in this picture.

[MyOwnPeace]

34. Sadly, I think you are correct.....

When we have sections of college football students chanting "F**K BIDEN" (er, aren't these supposed to be the 'educated' ones?) - how can we expect them to be upset with Granny's behavior?

We have NOT had an 'awakening' with the 'defeat' of IQ45. We DID get the numbers necessary to assure his departure from OUR White House, but it just ain't over! Truth be told, what with the works of state legislatures concerning voting laws, as well as the actions of the 'Supreme Court,' our task may indeed be more difficult in days to come.

[Irish_Dem]

38. The orange f wad gave legitimacy to the racist, ignorant, anti-democracy American.

And enabled the GOP operatives to work the state legislatures as you describe.

I think you have nailed it, our task is going to be more difficult in days to come.

[RVN VET71]

40. And another 20% "understand" that white "passion".

I hate the white people in that photo, hate what they allowed themselves to become, hated them then, hate their persistent, ugly racism still.

[COL Mustard]

15. There's So Much Hate In That One Girl's Face

I can't imagine hating someone that much.


Well, okay, a couple of people here and there, but not an entire group.

[3catwoman3]

35. Yes, the viciousness of the facial expression of the woman/girl...

…with the bow around her waist is horrifying in its intensity. I have seen this photo many, many times, and that face makes my blood run cold every time. I wonder if her attitude ever changed.

I can understand hatred for an individual who would have harmed or killed someone I love, or for people like Hitler, Trump, orMcConnell.

I cannot understand blanket hatred for a whole group of people, most of whom you have probably never met or interacted with.

[Irish_Dem]

39. "You have to be carefully taught...."

I am thinking of the song from South Pacific.

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

Richard Rogers wrote this song.

[70sEraVet]

2. The contrast between the white people and the young black woman is striking

And I'm not talking about their color.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. That expression

it should appear in textbooks alongside any discussion of racial hatred.

[berni_mccoy]

23. Reminds me of Bilbo's face when he wants Frodo to let him

Hold the ring one more time.

[anamnua]

21. Quite so.

That black girl is so graceful and dignified in comparison with that screeching harpy.

[KS Toronado]

4. Now when any RWNJ wants to complain about critical race theory

in my red town, I've got an excellent question for him.

[tanyev]

5. +1

[Demsrule86]

6. Nonsense, they are mostly dead.

[yardwork]

13. If they were in high school in 1957, they'd be around 80.

A 17 year old in 1957 was born in 1940, making them 81 now. Quite a few 81 year olds still alive. And their sons and daughters are middle aged.

Not so long ago. And what about the people who turned fire hoses and dogs on Black protesters in the mid-60s? They're mostly still around, voting Republican.

[cstanleytech]

26. " They're mostly still around, voting Republican." Currently.

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A lot of them in the south back then like Strom Thurmond used to be Democrats until the Republicans courted them but if they think they need to switch parties again to maintain power they will do so in an heartbeat.

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. Exactly.

It is really not about party anything. It is about remaining 'on top' no matter what.

[cstanleytech]

36. Yup, thus the new Jim Crow 2.0 laws passed by Republican legislatures and supported by

Republican judges like those on the Supreme Court.

[The Jungle 1]

7. We sure as hell will not teach the facts of how we committed genocide on the native Americans.

Kids can learn Native American history from the 60s cowboy movies. They are a great source of completely useless information.
A short history lesson:
We hung 38 Sioux Warriors after the Dakota war. Even though hanging was common this hanging / murder was botched. The ropes were to short so the Sioux Warriors necks did not break! They were not hung they were strangled. They did all 38 at one time! It took a few minutes but we got the job done. Wonder how such a mistake could happen???? The men were put in a common shallow grave by the next morning physicians had dug up the Sioux Warriors for use as medical cadavers! I would guess most were used for office and parlor displays. William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic collected and displayed a Sioux Warrior named Marpiya Okinajin / Cut Nose. 156 years later the Mayo Clinic apologized and set up a scholarship that will allow one Native American to go to medical school each year. The clinic communicated with the sovereign Sioux nation to set up the scholarship, however the Native Americans indicated there was some unfinished business and that an apology was in order.
This is just one short history lesson teaching, some untaught history of our treatment of native Americans. For the record the Sioux people started the Dakota war. They started it after we did not pay an annuity payment and they were unable to buy food. At the time we were involved in a horrific war of treason and did not have the money to pay the annuity. 1862 was the year. Wonder why they didn't just pull up their boot straps and go harvest some buffalo??? I guess they were just a bunch of liberal takers.(sarcasm)
So has anything changed regarding our treatment of the sovereign Native American Nations. Can you say Keystone XL! Way to go JOE. Apparently Joe studied history.

[Tommymac]

10. Treaty. Custer. Black Hills. Gold. Break Treaty. Custer. Crazy Horse. Genocide and tears. New States

That is all.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

12. In my high school American history classes

The Trail of Tears was never mentioned.

Youi also won't hear that the Iroquois name for George Washington was "Town Burner".

[leftieNanner]

14. Nor I

Never learned about the Tulsa Massacre either.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. I grew up not far from the "Trail of Tears" where it runs through

upper west Tennessee, and I have known about it for a long time - long enough that I can't remember where I learned it. It could have even been in a novel or one of those big books from American Heritage.

However I first heard about it, I am 100% certain my mom and I had more than one deep conversation about it; she never missed an opportunity to explain racism, anti-Semitism, Xenophobia, and any other types of prejudice. Her big thing was the Holocaust, probably because she lived through WW II and its aftermath. I don't think she compared things like Trail of Tears to the Holocaust consciously but I think she would now.

She was open minded and a voracious reader.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

42. My mother, an Austrian Jew, was a Holocaust survivor

Unfortunately, her parents and other members of her family were sent to Auschwitz. I absorbed a deep-seated loathing of bigotry of any sort at her breast. When my family emigrated to the US, she took up opposition to racism as a personal cause. She marched with Martin Luther King more than once, wearing a yellow star of David with "Jew" on it, in memory of the one she had to wear in Austria. She was once asked why she did this, and she quoted Martin Luther, „Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.“

[Duppers]

18. Thank you so much for this post.

My dh & I often talk about this; both of us have a bit of Cherokee heritage.

Please see:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14020836

[OnlinePoker]

9. The screaming girl was 15 year old Hazel Bryan

She (years later) apologized to Elizabeth Eckford and they actually became friends for a while before later falling out again.

[kskiska]

17. Yes, I read about that, too.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. I was 9 when that happened and remember seeing it on the news

nightly. (back when news was really news)

That photo has shown up in articles, books and TV programs about the Civil Rights Movement so many times that it is almost as well known as the photo of the Sailor kissing the woman in the white dress on V-E day.

And yes, the sheer hatred on that woman/girl's face is appalling and a bit frightening, and it is being recycled continually today.

If you have not done so, watch "Them". on Prime. The women remind me of the photo from Little Rock

[JI7]

11. Yup, exactly where we are in this country

[Duppers]

16. Conservative TN parents want teachers banned fr discussing

famous Norman Rockwell cartoon!😳

https://www.rawstory.com/norman-rockwell-tennessee-schools/

😡

[malthaussen]

19. I think most of those people are already dead, Mr Hoffman.

Their spirit, of course, lives on in their great and great-great grandchildren.

-- Mal

[joetheman]

20. This just slightly compares to the photo of men and women holding kids' hands while standing under

a hanging tree looking at the hanging of a black man and woman.

[sop]

22. These folks always claim the teaching of Critical Race Theory is anti-American.

"Racism is so American that when people protest against racism they're accused of protesting against America."

[Blue Owl]

24. Racism is humanity at its ugliest

[fescuerescue]

25. That has to be a pretty small group at this point. At least in their 80's

But more like 90's and 100s.

[SheilaAnn]

27. I graduated HS in '58 and will be 82 July, just to give you perspective. I remember being disgusted

by this at the time, even more so now.

[CTyankee]

28. I remember it, too. I was off to college in the fall and couldn't wait to get out of Texas.

Brown v. Board of Education was decided that year, too late for me to be in non-segregated schools in Texas.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. some of my lifelong Texan friends tell me that many school districts

were not desegregated until 1964 or thereabouts and even then were forced into it. Fort Worth ISD was definitely one of those

Interestingly, one of them told me that the Mexican kids were always in school with whites for as long as she could remember (she is 72). Not exactly treated the same as Anglos but a great deal better than Black students.

I have thought for a long time that Texas will have a Latino governor or Lt Governor before we have an African - American. I could be wrong of course.

[TigressDem]

30. Yup nt

[pansypoo53219]

37. if you don't learn history you are doomed.

[Kid Berwyn]

41. They also say there's no such thing as "evolution."

Ask ‘em.