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I think it's interesting how civil rights photography is always in black and white despite the fact that color photography was not only available but downright common for several decades at that time.
I think it's utterly maddening that shit was in 1960. It wasn't "the olden days" or "the before times" it was 1960. That's fours years before the events of Metal Gear Solid 3. This shit isn't that old.
(For the record, I think the black and white photography capturing racism is thematically and aesthetically on point)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer first aired 12 days before the Supreme Court finally ruled that the national government could force businesses to desegregate (although of course formally segregated school districts continued into the early 70s, and segregated proms were still a thing up through 2013 in parts of Georgia)
Exactly dude, exactly! This was stuff isn't ancient history, it's VERY recent and I find it really infuriating that there people of great power and influence today who were likely exactly like the katz in that picture. This sort of American history isn't that old and I wish people didn't try to create a narrative that segregation is some relic of the civil war era or something.