Comparing the entrance of multi-billionaire Betsy Devos into a Washington D.C. public school (last week) to that of African-American children facing discrimination — in the 1950s and ’60s is pure sacrilege.
The Norman Rockwell painting depicts a little African-American girl who was blocked by Jim Crow laws and white segregationists — from going to school to get an education, symbolizes the collective experience of blacks in the South during that era and their struggle to a decent “education.”
Therefore to draw a parallel between Betsy Devos and the young Black child depicted in Norman Rockwell’s painting is tantamount to comparing the journey of those who came on the May Flower to the journey of those who came in the hulls of slave ships to America.
right-wing political cartoonists, Glen McCoy redrew Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of a young black girl from the 1950s, during the Civil Rights Movement (protected by security guards) defying segregationists and church bombing murderers — entering the school building.
Betsy Devos’ mission is to destroy the young impressionable minds of African-American children and to see to it that they do not get a proper education.
