TREAT YOURSELF / Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 it will make you proud

[Mira]

21. Very much about these photographs is depressing. The incessant hard work

the lack of money, the many children to raise and feed, the racist society, and the general preoccupation with taking care of the base necessities in Abraham Maslov's triangle of the hierarchy of needs. It did not leave much time and energy for the finer things in life and certainly not self actualization.

These photographs nevertheless show us some of how it used to be, where we came from, how we have progressed, and how we have stayed the same.

I have listened to Republicans say: "I came from humble beginnings. My family from way back worked very hard and all the time, and nobody gave them anything and they made it by their wits and by everybody pulling together."

These photos illustrate these tough times. I would very much like to pick those Repubes up, squeeze them into a little ball, and place them into the middle of them, and never let them come back out in this lifetime.
Indeed I wish I had that power, it makes me that mad to hear this crap said with ignorance and conviction.