This poster is from 1941, when the nation needed blood and sweat.
Wanted: workers and canon fodder.
Not Wanted: people with actual equal rights.
The government propaganda was always bullshit; the armed forces remained segregated until after World War II, and even today the fight against discrimination and overt racism is fought at the polls, at the bank, in our schools, and at our job sites. Monuments to slavery still stand and the filibuster — embraced to preserve racism and discrimination — is hugged as if was law or in the Constitution, rather than a convention hung on to by white men who seek to keep white men in power and minorities powerless.
America: let’s start calling out the bullshit and start teaching our ACTUAL history.
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