Get Over It? NEVER.

[kpete]

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Our Supreme Court seems to think that, racism and bigotry, if they still exist, are just minor problems:

The majority opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, stated that “things have changed dramatically” in the South and that the "country has changed" since the Voting Rights Act was passed. The court argued the law had successfully defended against discrimination, but was no longer needed. Racism, the court majority appeared to suggest, was over, and laws created during a time when such hatred was in its heyday served now to place unjust "burdens" on certain states and jurisdictions that wished to pass new voting laws -- laws, of course, that had nothing to do with trying to suppress minority votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/racism-isnt-dead_n_5232080.html

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. I'm seeing 1912, 2001, (up to) 1945, and (up to) 1863

That is, one event barely in living memory, two events definitely in living memory, and one event not in living memory.

I think that's a significant difference, and makes your attempt to draw a direct equivalence between how we should react to the four dubious.

There definitely comes a time to say "get over it" - anyone who is still up in arms about Tamburlane's pile of the skulls of his enemies has some problems. We're clearly not there for the holocaust or 9/11; I think we are there for the Titanic. Slavery is more debatable - the thing itself ended two lifetimes ago, but other crimes directly descended from it were much more recent. But I think that if someone tries to make a point specifically using slavery, rather than, say, segregation, or lynching, or modern-day discrimination, then "get over it" is not a wholly unreasonable response,

I think your image would be much more unambiguously convincing if the fourth image was of, say, governor Wallace blocking the university door, or one of the many wrongly-convicted Placename Numbers, or a drinking fountain with "Whites Only" written above it, than it is with a depiction of a slave.