Where are the local authorities?
Has nobody called law enforcement?

At least the guy with the cell phone taking pictures should have.


Just disgusting

Look at the picture.

my apologies if you saw it differently.

This looks like a civil rights era sit-in. Half of the cops were probably KKK members then.

Freedom Struggle


Sitting for Justice: Woolworth’s Lunch Counter
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.


Read More http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html

It's amazing to think that this only happened 58 years ago.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's an iconic image showing parallels between white racists of the Civil rights era and white racists of the Trump era.

only the fashions and hairstyles are slightly different (and the tobacco sign on the wall).

A peaceful protest

Wypipo would be the ones who say, "I wasn't at that diner. Don't blame me."

or "That picture doesn't tell the whole story. How do we know the guys weren't being friendly towards him?"

because it makes them uncomfortable.

sigh

his restaurant with a gun and pick handle.




Then, you had these type losers --







I wish someone could find the haters and interview them nowadays to see what they think of their actions. I bet they are still pretty much the same.

Somehow this photo looks like it was taken 50 years ago. Look at the old dial phone on the wall, and the old-style typeface for "Tobacco" and "Books." Also absence of facial hair, tattoos and shaggy uncut mullets. The guy in the middle is wearing loafers.

But hey, I could be wrong.

Everything old is new again.

This is a chilling and important reminder.

They protested silently. They took all the hate stoically as a horde of assholes poured drinks over their heads. I can only imagine the slurs they endured.


They changed the civil rights moment.

luv ya, DesertRat.

These young people were so courageous.

So much pain there. It is haunting, Difficult to ignore or forget.

I do get your meaning now. This is a great post!

Curious about the motive, but I have my thoughts on that. As so many of us.

more than a black persons civil rights?

PS it is not bigoted, it is a fact.

of black people..?


Go ahead... I'll wait.

That's what i thought.

I pointed you straight to the evidence. No presumptions, just facts. Sorry you can't see that. Telling.

sheshe posts something.

That poster focuses on one word. They never denounce the behavior. Never. Just the word.

There's another one on this thread too. But they take it to a different level. In a few days they will find 50 pictures of black people doing the exact same thing. That should be an interesting one - might take her a few weeks actually.

Just an observation. This is a test (not for you but for those two).

White.

I'm trying to see if we are even allowed to type that word anymore at DU. Should make discussions of the next season of Dear White People quite interesting.

I'm going to start retracting the word from posts.

right movement was 50-60 yrs ago and the oldest trumpers now are left from that fight and want to remove all the rights gained

( they would be the people in the picture) along with thier late boomer-60-70s children and then the grandchildren now with thier own children all raised on hate . Yes you see the young kids at trump rallies all the time in MAGA gear applauding as an example of the generational hatred.

Also a sad sigh that people here do not know when the historic photo is from or the civil rights actions of the past like the lunch counter protests

I just realized those racists are only a few years older than me. So most of them are probably still alive.

act on

being from the civil rights movement era. Did they stop teaching the civil rights movement in school somewhere along the line? I get very Larry David about common knowledge. A society needs common knowledge.

If people cannot recognize an iconic photo of a milestone in our history of this nations fight for civil rights how can they possibly tell, 'splain those rights as they interpret them to those of color. It happens here as you well know.

Damn this pisses me off.

...show me some respect.

I seem to recall that when the first article about it hit it was basically saying that wypipo were white folks more concerned with animal rights than civil rights kind of folks among other things.

This is definitely a very different thing.

Fascinating.

where it was kind of a lark, a "stupid white people" thing where they're just kind of oblivious to things or more focused on the things closer to them, i.e. the people more concerned with animal rights (which in some ways isn't a bad thing, because we all care about different things differently. Some just have a greater resonance there because we're all different).

Now, wypipo means you're a MAGA racist.

I knew I should have just trashed the word from the start.

I really don't know how to interpret this. Is wypipo evolving to just mean racist in general?

If so, there's a lot of people on DU who self-righteously defended the use of term who aught to re-think their attitudes against those that worried the term was divisive if used casually. (because when said aloud it sounds the same as simply saying white people)

I don't think it was but the OP has me questioning that now.

Let's just say it: white people. My impression of this era, and it seems we haven't moved much past it, is that in these areas a huge portion of white people acted this way. The look on their faces says it all, almost like it's a game to them. They also look so young. Being so caught up in the hate at the prime of their life. Sickening.

I'm seeing some ugly racists, who even in that point in time, should have known that they were on the wrong side of humanity.

They were slime then, they would be slime now.

The definition of that term seems to be morphing, and in a very short amount of time.

Those people are simply, and aptly, called racists.