Billboard Controversy

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    A provocative roadside billboard in Mississippi that mixes art and politics has united onlookers in anger and confusion.

    The sign on Highway 80 outside Pearl features President-elect Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," superimposed on a well-known Civil Rights-era image by photographer Spider Martin. The famous "Two Minute Warning" photo shows a group of protesters including Hosea Williams and John Lewis confronting state troopers moments before violence broke out on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, in the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" conflict.
    The photo was taken moments before troopers unleashed tear gas on protesters and beat them with billy clubs before sending dozens to jail.



    Gov. Phil Bryant (R) has called the billboard imagery divisive and the mayor of Pearl wants it gone. Otherwise, people aren't sure what to make of it.
    "I don't really know what to think," Pearl resident Madeline Nixon told CNN affiliate WLBT. "It's definitely offensive, but it's their right at the same time. And that's what we as people need to understand: That everyone is entitled to their First Amendment."
    Is it racist? Maybe, Pearl resident Madison Hall told WLBT. Or, it could be there "to show that cops are there to protect you, and they're there to help you."
    If people are talking about the billboard then it's working, said Eric Gottesman, co-founder of For Freedoms, an artist-run political action committee that uses visual media to inspire political engagement. The billboard is part of a national ad campaign that commissioned works from artists and photographers on topics from gun control to campaign finance for billboards, social media memes and public transit ads.
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    Mississippi residents unsure of controversial billboard's intent - CNN.com
     
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    Now they know God damn well that's not the message this bb is trying to convey, especially with some black folks in this vintage photo.
     
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    But racism is over.Black people use it as an excuse and a crutch.The police are there to serve us.
    :ravetho::birdman::trash::trash::trash::trash::trash:
     
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    That's what these white folks mean when they say "take their country back" and "make America Great again" What they really mean is put those uppity negros back in their place.
     
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    For years I used that exact phrase to mock coded racism,so I was terribly shocked when Trump used it and everyone wasn't seein through it.Those types are always talking about how idyllic the "old days" were...when everyone couldn't vote and lynchings were just sorta frowned upon at the most.
     
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    THE TRUMP ECONOMY
    Make America Deflate Again​
     
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    UPDATE:It's been removed.
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    They must have seen the billboard across the street lol:
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    I wish these people who want to go back to the fifties would also realize that would mean a huge tax increase for the highest earners-just take a good look at what the income tax rates were then for the wealthy compared to what they are now. The whole idea of 'the good old days' is so damn myopic and selective-and for many(especially those who are using the phrase politically)it is just a code word for white supremacy and putting certain minority groups 'in their place'. smh

    This whole election and turn of events is so depressing and I don't think people realize the damage that will be done with SCOTUS, etc... I know I won't live long enough to see that damage undone. It is still just shocking and numbing to me-still in disbelief at the direction we are going as a nation and at how we seem to be tearing apart. I have very little hope for the future.
     
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    I think that was actually in Hustler Magazine although it looks like National Lampoon. I say that because I have a vague memory about it and a black Muslim friend being pissed with the fake ad along with me wondering what he was doing with a "white porn mag" in the first place lol
     
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