This cartoon is from 1876.

[kpete]

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[OldEurope]

1. This is the sadest thing I've seen in a while.

for all children.

[Warpy]

2. It's still going on today and for the same reason

only we let them grow into teenagers and throw most of them into prison.

After all, nobody with a criminal record has a chance.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. CIA ad?

[Bertha Venation]

4. Wow. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

5. Political commentary by Arthur Burdett Frost, still powerful today.

Especially powerful for the day.

"Southern Chivalry", a strong condemnation of the South by an artist in New Jersey.

He's known for his renderings of Brer Rabbit and other characters from Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus book.

Sad, but historically very interesting.

[Gothmog]

6. Very powerful cartoon

[JHB]

7. This one is from 1860, and is just as current...

It's a conservative political cartoon from 1860 (engraved by Currier & Ives!).

Recall that in 1860 the Republicans were a liberal/left party, and there's not one bit of it that's unfamiliar. The Civil War what happened when one political faction breathed nothing but its own hot air, and started believing their own advertising about Lincoln.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a rail (fence rail, that is), carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."

And to relate it to our own times, let’s go down the list of inFOXicated tropes about liberals, shall we?:
Supported (literally in this case) by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic this particular turn, Mittens).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Man-hating" feminists? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, drug users, thugs, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

A hundred and fifty years later, and the song remains the same.

[Hekate]

13. For this and the OP: the more things change, the more they remain the same!

Good finds, both of you.

[alfredo]

8. As a kid I'd hear people say "the black man wants to take over."

I think Obama has reignited that fear.

[AZ Progressive]

9. these cartoons are proof positive as to how many things just don't change.

Heck, we still fight the federalist vs democratic republican battles

[Special Prosciuto]

10. From the picture source

Complete Harp[er's]Week[ly] Explanation:
"This image dramatically condemns the brutal racism of some white Southerners against blacks. The white man has killed a black child, and his plea of "self-defense" exemplifies the perspective among Southern whites that Reconstruction had led to "black rule." The cartoon appeared just a few weeks before the presidential election."

Brackets added. This is so sadly true today and no longer regional.

[Special Prosciuto]

11. brackets not added. I'm new here.

It's from Harper's Weekly.

[JBoy]

12. Damn. n/t

[Hekate]

14. Good find. The more things change, the more they remain the same. nt

[burrowowl]

15. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!