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Go, Johnny, go! (lemmy.nz)

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[-] guillem@aussie.zone 44 points 2 days ago

There's a prior picture .

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Does anyone reading this know about Johnny Gray's later life? I'm clicking the internet and not finding anything yet...

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Page 23 here has an application from a person whose age, name, and place of living kinda matches, so maybe it was him

If that was him then maybe this record is about him, too. I don't know if Ancient Faces is crowd sourced or gets information from archives, but it reports death on July 18, 2001

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I appreciate the research, thank you. The Little Rock school board doc is intriguing, whether it's him or not.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~From other comments and the weirdness of these pictures. I'm guessing this is made up by AI.~~

~~Yeah I can't even find this on the UPI website.~~

NVM, the UPI website has a shitty AI for their search and it sucks. Using DDG I was able to find the photo on their site.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/Audio/Events-of-1959/City-Gangs-and-a-Lynching-in-Mississippi/

[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 10 points 1 day ago

Lucky there was a photographer on hand ready to capture that.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

Fuck yea Johnny, get 'em!

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

He really put his whole body into that punch

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

No choice. If it escalated it was him against those two (his sister probably couldn't help much). He had to shut that shit down quick.

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Johnny be good

[-] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I love seeing marketplace of ideas in action 🙂‍↕️

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

If you're not right in the head you might get punched in the head

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The headline led me to believe that this took place deep down in Louisiana but it actually took place in Little Rock, Arkansas. Do better journalists. /s

[+] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com -12 points 1 day ago

Two angry kids fighting because adults fucked their heads, and other adults applaud it.

Dunno, quite a sad scene for my liking.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 day ago

Sad that the kid, who probably isn't "fucked in the head," had to deal with two racist fucks. Hopefully they at least learned that black people can kick their ass just as well as anyone else.

[-] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

These racist fucks his fighting are just the same children. Their behavior was conditioned by adults in a way that makes them thinking they are more entitled to a sidewalk than that other kid. They have not developed enough soundness to be able to reflect on that.

They for sure learned that fighting proves a point.

[-] Devial@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

And those adults were taught that same thing by their parent generation. No one just decides to randomly become bigoted, almost everyone who is becomes bigoted because of propaganda and indoctrination, so at what point does someone have to take responsibility for their own bigotry, and when can you just blame it on the people who indoctrinated them ?

[-] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago

I'll leave you an exercise to think about your question while carefully looking at the photo.

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