- The U.S. Military during the Vietnam War did not make their own decisions, rather, they took orders from their higher ranked officials. Even if it was against their own morals. The commander has no respect for the soldier because he is blowing smoke into his face. The commander is out of shape, sloppy, and discredits the military by his appearance. The soldier is depicted as a mindless idiot. His torn clothing and muddy boots contrasted with the clean and shiny boots of the officer emphasizes how all of the responsibility was put on the common soldier. Also, the soldier shouldered all of the blame for the poor decisions and war crimes as displayed by the decapitated heads of the victims in the war which included women and the elderly. This cartoons suggests that American society begins to see the atrocities of the Vietnam War.
- The U.S. denied being beaten by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Even when the troops were all aware that we were clearly not winning the battle. Suspicion of the government truthfulness about the war was a significant reason for the growing American opposition to the Vietnam War. Throughout the early years of the war, General Wesmoreland reported that the enemy was on the brink of defeat. Contradicting such reports were less optimistic media accounts especially on television. Day after day millions of people saw images of wounded and dead Americans and began to doubt government reports. In the view of many a credibility gap had developed meaning it was hard to believe what the Johnson administration said about the war.
- Even though the 15th amendment was passed for African Americans to have the right to vote in 1870, most African Americans struggled for their voting rights. Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was [assed, voting right were far from secure. The Twenty-fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964, helped by eliminating poll taxes in order to vote. African Americans still faced violent attacks. By 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed. This authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices such as literary tests in counties where less than half of all adults had been allowed to vote. This Act marked a turning point in the civil rights movement. The new federal laws were in place to protect voting rights. When the African American in the cartoon comments that it only took a few hundred years to be able to freely vote he made an accurate account of how long it took for American society’s attitudes towards African Americans to catch up with the Constitutional law.
that was really funny
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