Don’t ever let them trick you into thinking this was a long time ago
Holy fuck this has connected two very long-forgotten thoughts!!! When we were in school, I remember seeing pictures like this, but the black and white versions.
So hearing in year 10 that it was as recent as the sixties really fucked with my head! It’d never occurred to me that this was a form of propaganda specificaIIy to mess with future generations!
It’s nuts that we (for the most part of course) onIy reaIIy associate propaganda with the worId wars!
I need to find out what eIse I’ve misunderstood about our history because of government-sanctioned Iies!!!!!
“Salinas is a sensitive yet critical history of how a unique urban-rural place in California navigated its growth as a farming empire and increasingly multiracial community. Long-established and impassioned community historian Carol Lynn McKibben has created a chronicle of Steinbeck Country that inspires fascination, respect, debate, and reflection.”
