“A Norman Rockwell Painting, ‘The Problem We All Live With’, which depicts a powerful image from the civil rights struggle, has been hung outside the oval office. The picture shows a six-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges being escorted into a newly integrated New Orleans school. The wall behind the child is daubed with racist graffiti and a splattered tomato lies on the ground near her.”
That’s very cool of the president to do. I think it’s uncomfortable for many Americans to face the reality and extent of discrimination in our country. And we still have quite a ways to go.
Incidentally, I wish I could just make a phone call and get a Norman Rockwell hung up in my house.
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You could get a print...
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