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Okay since this is about the 1000th time i see this picture or a version of it: who is this (not Eli, the guy on the picture)
It's an old Norman Rockwell painting titled (I shit you not) "American Freedom"
Its actually got an even cringier name: "Freedom of Speech" and the subject is a real guy who was opposed to...building a new school in his town
Hot dang, my art history teacher was a liar
Goddamn we're cynical
Something to keep in mind was this was still essentially the depression, so a farmer saying "I can't afford the taxes to build a new school" might actually be true
It probably wasn't racism cuz let's be real, Vermont on 1940 was 99.9% white. I'm not making that up, I just checked the census records