June 03, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
‘Teenie’ Harris was an African American photographer in Pittsburgh during the mid century. He chronicled the lives of African Americans struggling during that time.
This one caught my eye.
Black hands coming after the little white girl. You gotta say one thing for Republicans. The only thing they’ve changed since 1949 are the light bulbs.
Thanks to Charles for the heads up.
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So sickening that words fail me…and yes,nothing’s changed.
1That just makes me feel sick.
2What a disgusting way to scare people into voting for the losers. Wow………you’re right………..they haven’t changed a single iota of their beliefs.
3That billboard wouldn’t last long today, I think. It doesn’t get much uglier than that.
Let’s update it for 2013. Paint the hands red and put “DO NOT” before “Vote”. Problem solved.
4They may have changed the light bulbs, but they’re still sticking with incandescents.
5I’m so racially color-blind, I didn’t even realize the hands were supposed to be of a specific race. I read it backwards that voting Republican would give us the scenario in the billboard.
6It gets worse. Take a look at the little girl’s doll….
7They know how to change a light bulb . . . ?
8Aw, **ll! I just found out how to enlarge an object on my computer and saw the entire billboard! I don’t know which is worse! I was a little girl at about the time this billboard was created and I never knew any girls my age or younger that owned a rag doll like this. Per the common culture at F.W. Woolworth, our parents bought us the forerunner’s to Betsy Wetsy and it wasn’t rag or black. To turn that doll into something else is — must control myself here! And if you ever have a chance to look into the Nazi propaganda archives, you will see a billboard similar to this but the reaching hands belong to a stereotyped Jew. Altogether, whoever is responsible for this and continues to use it could walk under a snake’s belly on stilts!
9Maggie, I’ve seen that Nazi poster– should have remembered. (Was that little girl holding a racist doll too…?)
I know that whoever compares their opponent to Hitler or the Nazis is supposed to be the automatic loser of the discussion, but when the opponent goes out of their way to draw the comparison, they’re the losers.
10I’m almost 70, was born in Alabama, and evidently had one of those dolls (blonde lady in yellow lace dress turns over and becomes black lady in a bandana and red bandana dress with an apron). My sister and I found it in our mother’s stuff when we were sorting. Both of us were appalled and we threw it away.
11The only reason they changed the light bulbs is because they didn’t have “energy efficient” on the label
12I don’t know if anyone here has seen the Propaganda Remix Project, but that billboard wouldn’t need to be changed one bit in order to fit in with the rest of the examples there. The really sad aspect is that it simply shows that there was already a move towards Republicans by the “socially pure” inhabitants of the Deep South already beginning at that time… and that it accelerated instead of slowing down.
As someone who’s lived most of his life in the South, and who is one of the few moderate Republicans still alive, I’d like to think we’ve learned and outgrew such things. I know, we haven’t, and probably never will with some folks.
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