"Last weekend, Cindy Wilkerson, a 44-year-old former social worker, helped organize three busloads of protesters who rode from Mississippi to Washington for the big protest targeting President Obama and his policies. The passengers, all white, wore T-shirts identifying themselves without irony as 'Freedom Riders.'"
Well, at least there was no irony involved. I guess it's the little things that matter at this point.
The forgotten people, the Silent Majority ... I read it twice because I couldn't find a Trail of Tears reference.
If only they were met with the same resistance and violence of the actual Freedom Riders, maybe they'd get some perspective...sheesh.
Agreed. Sometimes I wish these folks had a taste of real oppression.
I'm guessing there was no ironing involved, either.
Hey! Only teh geighs are allowed to steal civil rights analogies for their own political gain! Who let these dipshit social workers take charge anyway?
Next year they will wear shirts that say, "Died For Your Sins On The Cross"
mmmmmmmmmm delicious irony. Kind of like how tea partiers were posting "fake" photos of the DC protests and then flipped out when they discovered the photos might be from THE MILLION MAN MARCH!
The shamelessness of the right wing is not, in itself, surprising. What has continually caught me off guard since Obama took office is the fashion in which they've so thoroughly and, I think, unknowingly adopted the semantics and symbolism of the left. I say unknowingly because, while I'm sure the Fox News folks are fully aware of what they're doing, and that it's part of a huge joke on their part, the rank and file birthers, deathers, tenthers and the rest, have no idea where these tropes spring from.
So true.
You left out NOM.
Not so sure. I remember distinctly hearing a teabagg in the sloshed-out, rain-drenched original DC teaparty a few months back shouting at the camera, "WE CAN READ SAUL ALINSKY TOO." Cribbing from such playbooks "without irony" has been part of the wingnut plan since at least Gary Aldrich and the condom XXX-mas tree.
At least they wore shirts.
'"White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to," wrote commentator Patrick J. Buchanan.'
If it's any indication.
*(makes cuckoo clock sound)
Not to trivialize the injustice it depicts, but that photo is striking and dramatic.
It's compositionally as artful as a painting; the woman, the grouping of the men, the Greyhound logo, the smoke, even the telegraph wires- it tells the story well, but it's also visually compelling.