Yes, it probably is.
One thing stood out in
Eric Samuelson's dramatic review of the George Zimmerman trial coverage. Samuelson wrote,
I am frightened for our country. I thought it was a good thing in our
country when we elected a Black man as President. When I saw photos of
Tea Party rallies with men wearing T shirts that read ‘Keep the White
House White,’ I thought it was just a minor thing, a vestigial remnant
of our bad ‘ol past.
My first impression was that it seems somewhat odd, to judge such an important issue on a basis as trivial as a tee-shirt slogan. So I went to the Internet to verify the availability of such slogans. Surely something so regarded as representative should be easy to find on Google search.
Sure enough, someone captured a photo of the infamous tee-shirt.
Such things are certainly not any kind of anachronism. They're being sold today across the Internet.
Just a little aside to Eric - perhaps you will note that the shirt itself designates this as a "Romney/Ryan" campaign event, not a Tea Party rally. And it seems to be one man wearing the tee-shirt in question, not a whole cadre. Please pay better attention. Details such as these might be important.
But as I searched for tee-shirt themes, I came across quite a diversity of interesting examples of the tee-shirt slogan mentality.
This one is a very nice example.
And this one comes across with a certain style that leaves little to the imagination.
Unfriendly tee-shirt slogans certainly seem to be something to be feared!
