She deserves so much more than an apology, but this is a little acknowledgment and light for the darkness. I'm heartened to hear the progress, but I'm a bit perplexed by the title of this article on AllGov.com. It's an awkward way to revise the era in which this horrific crime occurred. It was Jim Crow. It was segregation. It happened in the early breaths of the civil rights movement. It was a brutal and shameful time.
True enough when I think of WW2, on the surface, I think of the evil perpetrated by the nazis, Pearl Harbor and the horrors of war....but I also think of the picture of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square, Pin-up girls, The Andrews Sisters, Rosie the Riveter, Bebop and Swing dancers tossing their partners in the air and all kinds of warm-fuzzy caricatures. Calling this a "WW2-era rape" really blunts the reality too much: AllGov - News - Alabama Town Apologizes to 91-Year-Old for World War II-Era Rape
True enough when I think of WW2, on the surface, I think of the evil perpetrated by the nazis, Pearl Harbor and the horrors of war....but I also think of the picture of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square, Pin-up girls, The Andrews Sisters, Rosie the Riveter, Bebop and Swing dancers tossing their partners in the air and all kinds of warm-fuzzy caricatures. Calling this a "WW2-era rape" really blunts the reality too much: AllGov - News - Alabama Town Apologizes to 91-Year-Old for World War II-Era Rape
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| Recy Taylor (photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack, AP) |
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