9.07.2009

Déjà vu: Little Rock race protesters in '59 used same rhetoric as Obama foes today


A 1959 protest against racial integration of schools in Little Rock featured similar rhetoric as today's protests against ObamaCare -- that it's "Communism." Via the Library of Congress at Wikimedia. Detail:

But the similarities don't stop there: The middle sign says race mixing is the "march of the anti-Christ," a not unfamiliar notion today.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Weird. That's the second time I've seen this photo on a blog in a week(ish).

jafabrit said...

same ol', same ol' huh!