This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek Norman Rockwell would've killed with a painting of this.
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@Niall @BrianJopek Lincoln, not Washington, but yes, that’s essentially correct. Reconstruction was severely flawed and never truly completed.
@gregly Thanks for the correction
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek
The white guy with his nazi hair cut, fuck'em.
Well, it stinks a lot in the pig empire, messing with the elections, classical move in fascist countries. -
This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek #alt4you Representative Justin Pearson, a Black man with a neat mustache and goatee in black glasses and a black suit stares down an older, close-cropped white man in a gray suit with badge, who has interposed himself against a door as a barrier to entry.
It would not be a stretch to describe Representative Pearson's stance as thoughtful, with his right hand to his chin, or the unnamed Sergeant at Arms as glaring back with a tight mouth.
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@BrianJopek Norman Rockwell would've killed with a painting of this.
@SordidAmok @BrianJopek That was the first thought that crossed my mind when I saw this: it looks so damned much like a 60s Rockwell painting. The "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", 2026 edition.
This is why I'm uneasy about terms like "segregation-era" or "Civil Rights era" in reference to the period commonly associated with them: Those problems never really left. Much may have improved, but I think referencing these issues as though they're past history obscures how very present they still are.
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
nazi pig
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@SordidAmok @BrianJopek That was the first thought that crossed my mind when I saw this: it looks so damned much like a 60s Rockwell painting. The "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", 2026 edition.
This is why I'm uneasy about terms like "segregation-era" or "Civil Rights era" in reference to the period commonly associated with them: Those problems never really left. Much may have improved, but I think referencing these issues as though they're past history obscures how very present they still are.
@csilverman @BrianJopek
I was thinking of The Problem We All Live With. But yeah, things get better, then get worse. -
This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek This is why Mastodon continues to prove itself as the best qualitative social media site. Nowhere have I seen this photo. And it speaks thousands of words. Thank you for sharing.
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
Flipping important message! Let me put on my larger, more important glasses.
There we go.
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek At this point I'm fairly convinced that things will end in lynchings, although I'm unsure who will actually do the lynchings.
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This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
@BrianJopek I read the Gettysburg Address yesterday. I feels indeed like we have gone back several centuries
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