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In reply to the discussion: "I just sat in there for a moment" [View all]The Vrude
(86 posts)What are the chances that this is the actual bus? Unlikely. What are the chances that the quotation above is actual, i.e., offered sincerely? Unlikely. Two functions of propaganda: the replica/the similar/the approximate bus pointing at an emotionally-charged historical event, coupled with a recent intervening at that site aiming to recontextualize those events with a current overlay: "We are just like Rosa Parks...pushing forward and fighting the good fight!"
Fight? Fighting? How about we stop the wars and invest those billions/trillions into the United States.
I'd believe Obama's statement if Americans weren't perpetually told to go to the back of the bus the past 12 years (unless of course one is part of the ultra-rich elite class, bankers, and their military industrial complex).