Thread: Civil Rights Painting Hung Outside Oval Office

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Originally Posted by Risspina
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A Norman Rockwell Painting, "The Problem We All Live With," which depicts a powerful image from the civil rights struggle, has been hung outside the oval office.

The picture shows a six-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges being escorted into a newly integrated New Orleans school. The wall behind the child is daubed with racist graffiti and a splattered tomato lies on the ground near her.

Bridges herself, now 56, personally lobbied the president to hang the painting in the White House. Bridges attended a function at the White House with the president to mark the painting's move.

She told reporters "to be standing shoulder to shoulder with history, and viewing history, it's just once in a lifetime."


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We've come so far yet we have so far yet to go.

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Originally Posted by CountryAngel
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We've come so far yet we have so far yet to go.

Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the white house, Ronald Regan had them removed, I wonder if this painting will suffer the same fate at the hands of the next Republican administration.

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Originally Posted by MichaelM
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I wonder if this painting will suffer the same fate at the hands of the next Republican administration.

The same thought occurred to me. The next president needs to remember where we came from, the progress we need to continue to make; and the fact that the most important social movements are going to be the most heavily opposed, due to deep-seated and institutionalized bigotry.

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Originally Posted by MichaelM
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Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the white house, Ronald Regan had them removed, I wonder if this painting will suffer the same fate at the hands of the next Republican administration.

I only recently heard about the solar panels. I wonder how much money would have been saved by now, if Reagan had left them in place? What a boon that could and should have been to the green & eco-friendly industries.

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Originally Posted by Risspina
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The same thought occurred to me. The next president needs to remember where we came from, the progress we need to continue to make; and most importantly, the fact that the most important social movements are going to be the most fiercely opposed, due to deep-seated and institutionalized bigotry.

I agree.
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I'm no Reaganite, but in the interest of truth: He didn't take them down purely out of spite for the environment. The White House roof needed repairing, so he had to have them taken off. He didn't bother having them put back on, presumably because they were a symbolic gesture at best. I'm sure the energy needs of the White House are huge and the panels probably didn't even make a dent in that.

I don't care much about symbolic gestures. But what I do care about is meaningful policy.

And there Reagan fell down on the job. Because he was reflexively against anything not free market, he eliminated all tax credits for businesses developing solar energy. That's not so symbolic.