Mad magazine updates a famous Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover for today

[Fumesucker]

[Buzz Clik]

1. That kid would be on the floor in a pool of blood.

But, the parody is cute.

[Nitram]

11. My, Buzz, you have a vivid imagination.

[Buzz Clik]

12. Imagination? Meh. Interpolation, perhaps.

A cop dressed like that is not going out on the town to engage the community in a little bonding session.

[Nitram]

19. But your mind so easily pictured a little kid in a pool of blood.

Yikes!

[Buzz Clik]

21. That's what I get for arguing with the firearm freaks in the Gun Control forum...

... who take great delight in painting pictures of violent vengeance in a hail of bullets.

I need to never go back there.

[Nitram]

23. I get it.

[Buzz Clik]

25. by the way....

... thank you for the reality check.

I needed to step back.

[Nay]

38. Ask Tamir Rice's mother whether it was just in her imagination that her

child was blown away by a cop.

Jesus.

[Nitram]

43. Nay, I'm afraid you completely missed my point.

We're commenting on a parody of a Norman Rockwell painting, not Tamir Rice's mother.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. The Runaway - 1958

[Cyrano]

20. Yeah, Norman Rockwell's America

It was great, as long as you were a white Christian.

Norman Rockwell was a master of looking at the America of "mom," "apple pie," purity and innocence. He never once used his talent to show America's dark underside. But that would have, of course, ruined his career because it was an ugly reality that white Christian America didn't want to know about.

Rockwell's images are the place that those who want to "Take our country back" are talking about. It's a dream world that never existed, except in the minds of those who don't want thoughts of "The Other" intruding in their lives.

[immoderate]

22. Some less white Rockwells...

--imm

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. +1 thank you for posting some reality to counter the smear. nt

[rjsquirrel]

40. It's not a "smear."

A lot of the naive nostalgia that drives or drove the popularity of Rockwell's creepy vision of America was outright racist. And remains so.

Oh he painted some black people. And a couple of late civil rights illustrations. But the vision in his work is of Jim Crow America before that.

[hibbing]

34. My thanks to you also.

I saw the above criticism when this was originally posted, but I was at work and didn't have time to mess finding the one that first came to mind.

Peace

[PosterChild]

36. Rockwell's civil rights paintings...

.... are inspiring, especially with his ability to express inspiring themes through quotidian circumstances. However, it's good to keep in mind that he was a comercial artist. Whatever his personal perspective or opinions might have been, I've heard these paintings were comissioned by the saterday evening post for an issue on civil rights.

[gregcrawford]

26. Not quite accurate...

... Rockwell's Post cover of a little Black girl going to school surrounded by US marshals with racial epithets scrawled on the wall behind her comes to mind. I don't have time to do a search for the image, but I'm sure someone can find it for you.

[Historic NY]

28. The little girl was Ruby Bridges.....

Rockwell painting is "The problem we all live with".

https://vimeo.com/24297811


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges

[Hekate]

29. You need to become more acquainted with the real Rockwell's America

Some examples have already been posted here, but you can look up the rest online.

[Marr]

41. Why would you condemn someone like that when you clearly haven't actually looked at

their work? I don't get it.

[raccoon]

39. Thanks for posting that. nt

[underpants]

3. Madness

[GOLGO 13]

4. Not accurate.

The rifle isn't pointed at the kid's head. And the employee doesn't have his cell phone out taking a pic.

[Fuddnik]

5. Got a catalog with this t-shirt.

I don't think I'd have the balls to wear it.
http://www.northernsun.com/Cops-At-Work-T-Shirt-%281256%29.html


http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Cops-At-Work-T-Shirt-(1256).jpg

[malthaussen]

8. When I was 18...

... I was detained while wearing a T-Shirt that said "Don't Get Caught Holding the Bag" above a mj leaf. One of life's embarrassing moments, but at least I didn't run the risk of being blown away in a rage.

-- Mal

[Wounded Bear]

10. Old school...

looks like the Rodney King assault. Goes way back.

[geardaddy]

15. Are you in Minneapolis?

I love Northern Sun.

[Fuddnik]

17. Floriduh....The "Shoot Me State"

[geardaddy]

18. Oh dear.

Glad you found Northern Sun though!

[LiberalElite]

35. Northern Sun! good company and good stuff -

i used to get their catalog in the mail.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. I wish people would stop equating courage with male genitalia. It's 2015. nt

[mountain grammy]

6. K & R for Mad Magazine

Telling it like it is since I was a kid.. And even as kids, we knew the truth when we saw it.

[RoccoR5955]

9. Yep, I too have been reading Mad since I was a kid

nearly 50 years ago. I even have the anthology (in hard cover) of the first 50 years of Mad. It is priceless, even though I picked it up on the sale rack at Barnes and Noble a while back.

[heaven05]

7. true enough--2015

[starroute]

13. Not the first

On edit: Freda's version was posted a year ago at Tumblr. Here's his home page, since he deserves more credit after being ripped off: http://www.anthonyfreda.com/

[geardaddy]

16. +1

[HomerRamone]

14. Where is the link to this on the web?

If it was posted from your hard drive, Fumesucker, could you please tell me how? I've never figured out how to do that on DU. Thanks. (Love the pic.)

[Fumesucker]

27. Postimage dot org is good for this

http://postimage.org/

You can either upload from your hard drive or copy from the web and you don't need to even register.

After you get your picture uploaded you will click on the Copy To Clipboard button next to Direct Link and then paste it into your post on DU.

That's the way it works in Windows, Mac may be slightly different.

[HomerRamone]

33. Thanks! nt

[Enthusiast]

30. They nailed it.

[rhett o rick]

37. Let's be clear here. The militarized police is a dream of the conservatives not the progressives.

Vote Clinton to preserve the conservative ideology of tough on the masses. Private Prisons love Clinton.

[raouldukelives]

42. K&R It speaks volumes about what we have become.

I still prefer the earlier Mad image from this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026296007