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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis photo by Pierre Lavie of John Abernathy in Jan 2026 in Minneapolis should win a Pulitizer


I think about this photo and it's inevitable place in history texts about the US slide into decline
aeromanKC
(3,956 posts)Just as the fire hoses on the people pics are in the early 1960's chapter.
republianmushroom
(22,613 posts)Amaryllis
(11,400 posts)Wild blueberry
(8,358 posts)Yes, into history. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
Thank you.
NBachers
(19,548 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,388 posts)Remarkably Abernathy said his camera wasn't damaged.
GiqueCee
(4,624 posts)... and they ARE going down, they're gonna go down HARD. And the sooner the better.
llmart
(17,712 posts)it'll never get into the history textbooks. They'll be revising a whole lot of history.
irisblue
(37,770 posts)Maybe not in American ones till 50+ years on.
Other nations and cultures are watching.
And yes republicansim is a disease
llmart
(17,712 posts)then Americans will continue to only get the revised history which will lead them to be dumbed down even further.
I'm not worried about other countries. Right now we need to turn ours around from this downward spiral.
fujiyamasan
(1,984 posts)Even if they try to transform the culture through warped propaganda, the images will still be there.
I know what youre saying though. China is an interesting example. Over decades their government censored the tank man photo and several surveys indicated a majority of Chinese (especially younger people) either hadnt seen it or believed it was fake news or a scene from a movie. It will be harder for republicans to enact that level of control, given the cultural differences, but Im sure theyll do their best.
So yes we should definitely be vigilant.
BidenRocks
(3,461 posts)Second Amendment remedies.
The American underground, like the Europeans in WWII.
Will OUR military fight Americans at home?
We know the enemy. It is us!
lame54
(40,042 posts)irisblue
(37,770 posts)They both knew ICE & the border patrol would delete or damage the images Abernathy took.
Lavie snapped his photo & took Abernathys' camera to safety and into history
calimary
(90,602 posts)Deserves every kind of award there is to give.