If Fox News was around in the 60's

[TheBigotBasher]

[Beartracks]

1. A nice retro-recreation. There's even a typo! n/t

[baldguy]

2. But all the signs are spelled correctly.

The quality of bigotry has certainly decreased in the last generation.

[Beartracks]

4. Didn't those protestors learn their children gooder than that? n/t

[baldguy]

5. Public school is a Commie plot!

[Ignis]

25. "We ought to make the pie higher!"

:rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Those aren't homemade signs

The company they contracted for the signs must have had a proofreader

[crazylikafox]

3. Looks familiar, doesn't it?

[customerserviceguy]

6. Wrong decade

That's a 48 star flag in the picture, we had 50 stars by the 1960's, at least when bigots like George Wallace and Lester Maddox were stirring up racial hatred.

That looks like something from the desegregation days following Brown vs. Board of Education.

[Beartracks]

7. Good eye! Here it is...

... from 1954. I thought that photo looked familiar.

http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/archive/0507/photo_essay.jsp?page=1


The commentary on the photo makes the observation that "the protesters carry American flags alongside placards declaring racial mixing to be 'communism' and 'the march of the antichrist' — a fascinating and disturbing mix of patriotism, prejudice, and fear."

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[TheBigotBasher]

8. Yep

that is where it was taken from.

It is still the same message of hate. Fox would have opposed Alaska and Hawaii if they were around in the 50s and 60s.

[pnorman]

13. Here's one photograph w/text:

"Despite Governor Wallace's resistance, Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama. Although Hood eventually left to attend school in Michigan, Malone stayed and became the first African American to graduate from the university in 1965. Despite the hostility of many of her classmates, she thrived at the school and after graduating remained active in the civil rights movement throughout her life. In 1996 Malone was chosen by the George Wallace Foundation to be the first recipient of the Lureen B. Wallace Award of Courage, which she received from the former governor himself, three decades after their first confrontational meeting."

[monmouth]

21. I didn't realize her accomplishments. Gave me chills and a thrill...n/t

[pnorman]

23. This is the part that had caught my eye:

"....In 1996 Malone was chosen by the George Wallace Foundation to be the first recipient of the Lureen B. Wallace Award of Courage, which she received from the former governor himself, three decades after their first confrontational meeting."

No, i don't think this was political hypocricy on the part of Wallace. I think he had a genuine spiritual conversion. Such things sometimes happen.

[monmouth]

24. Me too. Gave me a shiver...n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Actually, the photo is from August 20, 1959

the day before Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state, and less than 2-months after the 49-star flag became official.

[Beartracks]

26. Whoops, you are correct about the date.

I hadn't read the entire caption when I made that post. My bad.

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[customerserviceguy]

20. It's one of those things I look for in movies

The difference between the arrangement of stars in the 48 star and the 50 star flags is evident even from a small bit of the blue part, I'm one of those weirdos who looks along the corners and the edges of the motion picture screen to see if the set decorator got every detail right.

The movie that impressed me most in this respect (lately) was "Doubt". I really felt that I was back in Catholic school in the early 1960's! And Meryl Streep's performance was so good, I was able to forgive her for "Mama Mia"!

[SoxFan]

9. They don't recognize Hawaii or Alaska

Too many Eskimos and Japanese.

[Cresent City Kid]

12. It might be the new birther angle

If Obama was born in Hawaii, then Hawaii ain't America.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. The 50-star flag became official on July 4, 1960

since Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state after July 4, 1959. Also, if these guys had already had 48-star flags (which were current up to July 4, 1959), maybe they wouldn't have bothered updating them.

[lpbk2713]

10. I honestly don't think any of us would be here today.

Fox would have fucked things up so bad we wouldn't have made it
through the cold war or through the Cuban missile crisis.

[JI7]

11. and they would have fired Walter Cronkite like they did Dan Rather

[krispos42]

14. The few of us left alive would be horribly mutated.

The East and West coasts would look like the surface of the moon.

[dmr]

18. Look at 'em, they're all so thin

Back in the pre-fast food day when food for cooking was affordable.

[zbdent]

19. show the screencap from 11/22/1963 ...

all the people dancing in the streets ...

[Jokinomx]

22. Ain't that the TRUTH n/t