Cognitive Dissonance
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Illustration by Enoch Bolles for Tattle Tales magazine, 1933
(via hoodoothatvoodoo)
The images from the integration battles of the late 1950s and early ’60s just grow more shocking and shameful with each passing year, and the ones in “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” are especially jarring because the targets were children. Were Americans, or a segment of them, really so openly hateful and so blatant in their disregard for the feelings of other human beings?
The answer, of course, is that yes, they were, and sometimes they still are, which is why it remains important to look at these images and remember people like Ms. Bates. As president of the Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. she led the push to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957, an effort that brought on ugly confrontations that left some of the students fearing for their safety.
(via Daisy Bates of N.A.A.C.P. Recalled on PBS - Review - NYTimes.com)
From left: David Ruffin, The Lockers, 9th Creation, Shirley Brown and Don Cornelius on the show in 1975.
(via Don Cornelius, Smooth Operator on Behalf of Soul - NYTimes.com)
Speaking on CNN on Wednesday, and in a lame attempt later to spin his remarks, Mr. Romney tried to explain that he was focused on middle-income Americans because the poor — now a full 15 percent of the population — already have a government safety net. He failed to mention, of course, that his policies, and those of his fellow Republicans in Washington, would drive more people into that net — while at the same time shredding it.
The remark was in keeping with the callous tone of the campaign for the Florida primary, in which Mr. Romney handily beat Newt Gingrich. Even in his victory speech Tuesday night, Mr. Romney hinted darkly at the tone of the campaign to come. He accused President Obama of ordering “religious organizations to violate their conscience” and vowed to defend religious liberty.
It was a reference to the Obama administration’s requirement that large religious institutions, like hospitals and universities, provide insurance coverage for birth control. He was promising to defend the Roman Catholic Church’s “religious liberty” to deprive its tens of thousands of employees and university students of their own liberty.
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