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Cyrano

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20. Yeah, Norman Rockwell's America

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 11:59 AM

Nov 2015

It was great, as long as you were a white Christian.

Norman Rockwell was a master of looking at the America of "mom," "apple pie," purity and innocence. He never once used his talent to show America's dark underside. But that would have, of course, ruined his career because it was an ugly reality that white Christian America didn't want to know about.

Rockwell's images are the place that those who want to "Take our country back" are talking about. It's a dream world that never existed, except in the minds of those who don't want thoughts of "The Other" intruding in their lives.

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Yeah, Norman Rockwell's America Cyrano Nov 2015 #20

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