What's the difference between the white folks who fought integration in the 60s

[proud2BlibKansan]

and the white folks fighting health care reform today?












Answer: about 40 years

[HopeHoops]

1. A: There weren't a bunch of fat people in the 60's pictures.

They were still idiots, just not fat idiots.

Of course, there weren't that many fast food joints back then.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Yep. I remember when the first fast food franchises opened up

They weren't all over the place till the 80s.

[Dogmudgeon]

17. There are no fat people in the second picture

Proving that fat-o-phobia has become a trendy new kind of bigotry.

If you want to put a stop to bigotry, you have to put a stop to all of it.

--d!

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. here

[Chorophyll]

24. And there are no fat liberals?

Nobody fat voted for Obama? Find something real to think about.

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. Only one it seems.

[HopeHoops]

25. Well, you got one of each there.

Sort of the opposite of Jack Spratt, eh?

[OnyxCollie]

30. "Abama?"

:rofl:

[Kalyke]

32. Who's Abama?

And... when was national healthcare put on the table? I thought we were discussing national health care insurance.


:crazy:

[Chorophyll]

22. Right. There are no fat people in either picture.

Maybe we can make fun of stupid people without so much body-snarking, huh?

[HopeHoops]

23. You know, you're right - none in that picture.

But the loudest assholes in most of the pictures ARE fat - and that's not bigotry. They aren't naturally large people, you can tell the difference. They are fat because they eat junk - just like the shit they call "news". Fast food and FOX Opinion Channel are essentially the same thing - all fat, no sustenance.

I have a very dear friend who has been obese her entire life, but that's mostly genetic (I know her family well). She's a college professor and she isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about morons who are fat because they make bad choices in food, lifestyle, and unfortunately in cable channels.

[Chorophyll]

28. "Some of my best friends"

are fat too. :eyes:

[Control-Z]

41. Does junk food fat

look different than healthy food fat?

[Chorophyll]

44. Maybe we can order all the fat people to

submit samples of their fat to a central committee.

Healthy food fat? You're free to go.

Junk food fat? Get thee to a concentration camp in Texas, Thunderthighs!

[chelsea0011]

2. smaller flags?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And colored pictures!

LOL

[tularetom]

3. The signs were more professional in the 60's

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. They spelled better back then too

[chelsea0011]

15. I always knew there was a problem with learning to spell by phonics

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Hey I learned phonics and I went to elem school in the 60s

The problem is the opposite. When we stopped phonics, kids stopped learning to spell. Amd many stopped learning to read as easily also.

[Control-Z]

42. Computer use

gave many children a reason not to learn to spell. (spell check) OTOH, my dyslexic son improved his reading and spelling with text messaging and IMing.

[Recursion]

34. They dropped out of public schools after integration

Seriously. In the Mississippi town I grew up in, the city council sold the public school property to the newly-formed all-white private school for $1 when integration was forced through. All the (rich enough) white kids went there, and education went downhill from there.

I seriously think a lot of the educational deficit the South has is based on the fact that most towns have a significant white population that has opted out of public education.

[Recursion]

5. The ones in the 60s at least could dress well? NT

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. The women wore dresses

They knew their place!

[Recursion]

33. I was thinking more that Wal~Mart hadn't ruined the US textile industry yet

Working people could still afford well-made clothes.

[surrealAmerican]

38. It's hard for me to look at that picture without thinking ...

... of all the hours spent ironing for those clothes to look like that.

[XemaSab]

46. Not to mention the crinoline that woman is wearing!

I fear she's wearing a girdle too. :cry:

[Echo In Light]

6. A few more decades worth of corporate culture conditioning solidified in the public mind

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Ooh the PhD answer!

You get an A. :)

[peekaloo]

7. a complicit media?

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I so miss Walter Cronkite

[baldguy]

10. The words on the signs.

They're still ignorant sheep who need to be told who to hate & why by their fuhrers. Their ideas about what they're protesting about bare no resemblance the actual issues. And they're on the wrong side of history.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Indeed!

:thumbsup:

[NashVegas]

18. Opponents of Integration Didn't Make It About Ike

ie, it wasn't driven by anyone trying to weaken the president's powers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Actually Kennedy and Johnson were presidents then

But you are correct.

[NashVegas]

37. Oi. Need to Read Better

I was thinking Brown v Board era, obviously.

[Hepburn]

21. WalMart polyester?

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. Made in China!

[Hepburn]

31. Yeppers! n/t

[Recursion]

35. I caught that too

The 1960's bigots had a much better sense of style, despite having much, much less disposable income.

[Hepburn]

47. Better groomed in natural fabrics....

...no common sense, but at least a passable sense of style!

[Raschel]

26. The crowds are smaller.

[Chorophyll]

29. But no less insane. nt

[Raschel]

36. No, they're not, and I'm not trying to minimize their capability of violence.

Just as in ancient history though, I see them as a dying breed, trying to make an attempt to stay in power.

One day children of all colors will be reading our history books and wonder in awe that these racists prevailed for so long.

:hi:

[Chorophyll]

43. Oh, I agree that they're a dying breed.

In fact, I'm hoping they're in their death throes right now. :hi:

[Soylent Brice]

39. 5th rec, wish it could be # 1 million

THE PLAIN UGLY TRUTH.

[proud2BlibKansan]

48. Thank you

[Soylent Brice]

50. you're welcome and

i sent the link to this to everyone i know.

some people said they laughed.

some people said they cried.

[kelly1mm]

45. Not much difference at all. Both were scared, ignorant, and

used by more powerful forces in this country for keeping the status quo. And both groups have the full protection of the first Amendment. We need to make sure that the fringe does not have the only voice in this debate which will be decided by the many in the middle without strong convictions either way. We need to do a better job of explaining what health care reform will do for them. More difficult today with the main scream media though.

[tavalon]

49. Not one damn thing, except many of the ones in the first picture have died

and racial integration happened anyway, well, not perfectly, but better than before.

[frogmarch]

51. K&R Good one.

Effing racists.