Segregated water fountains

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126 Responses to “Segregated water fountains”

  1. shayan Says:

    painful, not fair…

  2. Tor Says:

    america

  3. Twiggy Says:

    I really like how there’s a pipe connecting the two.
    And how the Black one looks like the fountains at my high school.

  4. Jeremy Says:

    Tor - were you alive then? Was I? Oh wait - no we weren’t and nor would I ever stand for something like this.

  5. peter pumpkin eater Says:

    rasicsm is crap

  6. andy Says:

    Jeremy, yes. But were you parents alive? Grandparents surely. Did they stand for it or against it? Ask them.

  7. israel Says:

    oh usa (america for the ignorants)… allways the same

  8. Nick Says:

    Racism is still alive and strong to this very day…sad really.

  9. Loveforall Says:

    Tor and Israel….your comments support racism, they don’t help combat it. Yes, racism is still a problem, but negativity never helped change anything.

  10. anon Says:

    I agree with loveforall…hating the US is a type of racism - you are racist against the Americans, and therefore intolerant. Have some tolerance, then maybe humanity won’t have to go through what this picture shows again.

  11. Crouton Says:

    This was the past. That’s it. Even at that time, there were American’s who were against segregation. Heck, we even had a president who were against slavery and did whatever he could to end it (Lincoln), but he didn’t entirely wiped it out.

  12. Tor Says:

    What a great idea! I wish we’d thought about that in South Africa.

  13. bobby Says:

    anon, you can’t be racist about a nation, you douche. you can be racist against a race.

  14. Loveforall Says:

    Racism may not be the correct term for hatred against a nation, but it is still a form of prejudice and just as detrimental to humanity as a whole….it’s pretty easy to understand what anon was trying to relay

  15. LeppLass Says:

    Tor is prejudiced against America. Does he live here? I don’t get it…if he does, he should leave (if he hates it here so much)…if he does not live here…thank God!!!

    That photo, very sad, very regretful that ever happened. I will never understand it. I’m sure there were people who were against such things, but they probably were afraid to voice their opinions amongst the many haters out there (like Tor).

  16. John Says:

    The American ********

  17. Tor Says:

    Notice how the drain from the Whites fountain goes over and is the source for water for the coloreds.

  18. waddup Says:

    couldnt they find a longer pipe, the white folks have to have blacks folks drinking right there next to them…maybe they could have put an elbow and run it round the corner…

  19. thugstyle Says:

    one day young nation get it freedom

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  21. figures Says:

    Some humans are so cruel!

  22. Orai Says:

    no mames

  23. BooBoo Says:

    “Notice how the drain from the Whites fountain goes over and is the source for water for the coloreds.”

    That makes no sense. There would be no water pressure. Glad you have common sense mate.

  24. gabby Says:

    actually the pressure is applied by suction from the negros mouth, this draws the water up into the fountain, marvelous engineering really….and uses little or no actual energy thereby reducing demands for coal fired power plants.

  25. koko Says:

    why cant the white people drink from the coloreds fountain, wont they share?

  26. BooBoo Says:

    Haha gabby, I laughed aloud, the democrats are proud of that invention. Completely green.

  27. hannah Says:

    miracle country of colourful dreams: america…

  28. DJ Says:

    It could always be worse.At least he’s getting some water. I bet that kid with the missionary wouldn’t be bitching.

  29. FLFisher Says:

    To: Tor

    Even though I’ve never met you, I know it in my heart that your entire family is nothing but idiots. Just a feeling I have.

    From: An American, who is obviously a racist because he is an American… No other reason or background information needed… Right?

  30. Tor Says:

    i’ve been pulling your proud american legs out there for quit some time now. i’ll stop and be serious from now on (i mean; for god sake some dude has even sent u.s. security on my ***.).

    but seriously, i’ve disided to get loose… yeah!

  31. Tor Says:

    usa, the new imperial rome, coming soon to a location near you….

  32. waddup Says:

    Der Homeland, just one small step from Der Fatherland…

  33. Fugurino Says:

    Ahh, the good ole days. If we were like this today, maybe we wouldnt have so many bleeding heart p.c. liberals around.

  34. HypnoticSuggestion Says:

    Us Americans want to set examples for other nations, we’ve not always done so very well. We’re haven’t been perfect, and we’re not perfect today. But I honestly believe the United States are the home of the free, and the brave. We may have racism, me may always have racism, because American, Japanese, Israeli, German, we’re all human, and we’re incredibly imperfect. I’m not all knowing, and there are many things I don’t understand, or am even aware of, however, I absolutely trust that there are more people trying to do the “right” thing, in America. Our system isn’t perfect, and not fair to everyone at all times, but it’s good enough that if enough people care about something, they can achieve anything.

    Myself, I don’t believe I’m racist. My parents, I can’t say for sure if they have ever been prejudice towards anyone, but in the Korean war my grandfather was nearly killed by a grenade, an African American comrade of his dove on the grenade saving his life, and instantly ending his own, as I was told, it was like something out of a book or movie, the way he did it, how bravely and without hesitation. Racism was never tolerated in their household, or my parents, I’m not sure if that’s why, the war incodent, but I’ve had many friends, having lived in many american cities, and in germany, and I have liked everyone, and every culture.

  35. koko Says:

    koko love verybody!!!yay!!!

  36. Arm Says:

    Tor, care to explain race relations in your country? Some one from a piss ant country like Norway, with all of it’s immigrant violence should be the last dork on here pointing out the oh-so-obvious errors of some one elses past.

  37. koko Says:

    koko thirsty, where koko drink?

  38. Arm Says:

    who can explain to me the conundrum of the space time continuum? It appears to be based upon a logical fallacy and yet…ooops, gotta run!

  39. dem Says:

    this is actually in Pretoria, I drank from that fountain

  40. Ahem... Says:

    Race is an arbitrary social construction. If you operate under the premise that race is real, you are a racist. The acknowledgment of race as fact is enough discrimination to warrant the title of racist. Disagree if you must, but there is nothing biological about race. In that sense one could be racist against a country. After all, our most preliminary discussions of race stem from a pre-globalized world view in which geographic borders are sufficient. You know what I mean if you’ve ever heard any jokes about Polish people.

  41. Arm Says:

    Too bad this site did not disallow multiple users choosing the same name.

  42. Arm Says:

    your damn right about that, the dirty pinko commie ****** fools! ooops, gotta go!

  43. gabby Says:

    its me, Arm, Im going to pretend to be gabby, that will teach him!

  44. gabby Says:

    hey you, dirty pinko commie *** ****** *****, get back in line with the ideals of our great nation.

  45. gabby Says:

    (pretty good huh? Im a quick study!) Hey ********, you cant talk about america like that!

  46. Serb Says:

    AMERICA **** YEAH !!!

  47. hahaha Says:

    Ahh, the good ol’ days! Wish these were still around!

  48. two tone Says:

    @waddup..hahahah! yeah! they should make that pipe longer!!

  49. two tone Says:

    is everybody ready for the big party tomorrow?

  50. Liz Says:

    That is so not fair, whites shouldn’t have had to be so close to the coloreds’ fountain.

  51. Prometheus Says:

    blood of a slave, heart of a king

  52. jeri Says:

    child of the desert, bootie of the ghetto

  53. Big Paddy Says:

    Doesnt matter wat country your from all places have there hates against other races so disrespecting one country for its flaws years ago is pointless

  54. Miso Says:

    White is boring, I prefer colored things anyway.

  55. Tyger Says:

    I’ve learned skin color doen’t prove a damn thing about anyone, unless they want it to. Racism, segregation and prejudice need to end NOW. No one’s superior, everyone’s a victim, GET OVER IT.

  56. Jeri Says:

    why doesnt anyone help this poor black person get a drink?

  57. Elliott Says:

    Again, a sad commentary on how inhumane some people can be against others. The sad part about it is that it hasn’t been that long ago and we have not made as much progress as we think we have.

  58. Gazza Says:

    That really is a disgrace. Why is there no towel on the white side???

  59. Nunes Says:

    that’s not america.. that’s africa’s apartheid

  60. Tor Says:

    I’ve been a bad boy and have been sent to my room.

  61. Midas Wilder Says:

    America hasn’t progressed at all since these “shallow” times because the country is MOSTLY uneducated, misinformed and rural. VOTE OBAMA IN 2008 FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE…TO RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM!

  62. waddup Says:

    the difference between me and this black feller is I would drink from the nicer fountain anyways, and then exchange the signs….

  63. Navid Says:

    *sigh*…what’s sad is not the picture, but the comments made in this day and age!

  64. MK Says:

    Americans are [in most cases].. ignorant and stupid people. They think the world is.. only USA..

    Unfortunately my country [Portugal] and some more european countries use slavery for hundrends of years to colonize America [USA..and Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, etc..]…..
    But the truth is that even the black’s where racists, because they trade with portuguese sailors others black’s from different tribes as slaves..

    Human race is bad…
    And one proof how bad we are [or american..] is the fact that a person as dumb, stupid and ignorant as Bush has managed to become president of a country..

  65. Arm Says:

    MK = “Americans are [in most cases].. ignorant and stupid people. They think the world is.. only USA..”

    How ironic you start a post to argue (weakly) against racism by opening with exactly the type of generalization that leads to a concept like racism. And you want to assign the term “ignorant” to others. Perhaps to understand true ignorance and stupidity you should re-read what you’ve written. You almost made a point in your post but with the first and last statements you failed to make a relevant statement about racism.

  66. James Says:

    Sad

  67. War for Oil Says:

    Welcome to United States of America 2008…

  68. Bas Says:

    Not even 60 years ago.

  69. Amber Says:

    **** racist bitchess .

  70. berrye Says:

    Segregation was a travesty in this great country i call home. i am proud to say that we have now forged ahead and actually voted an African-American as President of these United States of America. We have come a long way from these times, and I am very happy to have not lived through it.

  71. I am douche Says:

    **** you britfags, your country is the one that started the slave trade ********.

  72. Johnny Says:

    WE MIGHT HAVE STARTED THE SLAVE TRADE, BUT YOUR OWN PEOPLE IN AFRICA SOLD THERE OWN TO WHITE TRADERS. YES SLAVERY IS NOT GOOD. JUST JUST GET THE FACTS CORRECT.

  73. faust Says:

    Oh please…. This photo was taken several years back. True, the events of that time (Depicted well in this photo, no doubt) were cruel; but this is the here and now.l

    Racism does thrive, but it comes from both sides. I know a few extremely intelligent black people who expressed sentiments of being stressed and feeling alienated because their own friends and families would ridicule them for acting “Too White”. Does “Too white” mean “too intelligent”?

    I find it offensive that the US government can not live in the here and now, and find it necessary to compensate for events of the past.

  74. dottie Says:

    when will dese good ole days return, us folks is damn tired of de white folks water.

  75. Aznpandaman Says:

    that black fountain is hella crappy in comparison to the vanity the one labeled white it’s like they tried to make it better haha now everyone has crappy fountains like the one on the right

  76. Lunatox Says:

    It’s sad that the germs of negros everywhere now contaminate the mouths of good clean white folk.

  77. java1234 Says:

    Well I’m sure that Obama is going to change it all,LOL Thank goodness that there were enough minorities to vote and get him in office.

  78. ceejazz Says:

    racist people are idiots!!…the first man and woman walk out of africa. this has been proven. we are one!!

  79. Poopoo Says:

    LONG LIVE WHITE PEOPLE!!! *******">******* are rap listening ******** who rob and murder. LONG LIVE METAL!!!! GO TO HELL RAP!!! go to hell america and all it’s rap listening ****. Some day good nordic people will crush other countries and all people who listen shit music and have shit brains like americans and ragheads and africans.

  80. gazza Says:

    Is it true 97% of blacks voted for that black guy??

    Racist ******** - and i thought it was only honkeys that were racist!!!

  81. martyn Says:

    I voted for Obama, big black penis, thats what I like!

  82. lol Says:

    owned

  83. Poopoo Says:

    I will assassinate obama…

  84. lol Says:

    using a water fountain? good luck to you buddy, its gonna be a ***** to carry and throw.

  85. Runnergirl Says:

    Hey “poopoo” joking or not, saying you are going to assasinate the next president of this country makes you a douche bag. PS: Obama would own your sad ***. I am proud the leaps our country has made since this photo was taken but there’s always room for improvement in all realms. Hopefully, positive progress will continue.

  86. Poopoo Says:

    HAHAH idiot. I dont have time to waste for your dumbass obama. Someone other will kill him soon from KKK. You’ll see it soon.

  87. steve Says:

    All coloreds who breed and do not work should be forcefully removed to africa or iraq and forced to do manual labor and be whipped for infractions instead of placed in prison, where the quality of life is usually better than in their ghettos. the lazy coloreds can then get 3 free meals a day, shelter and plenty of man sex. (most men are significantly more attractive to straight colored than their own females, who are often obese and hairy).

  88. jack Says:

    i used to pee on the negro fountain and watch and laugh while they drank my pee

  89. jerry Says:

    I don’t blame negro fellows liking other races. have you seen a negro chick lately? Ive seen baboons that are more attractive.

  90. The nice jolie girl Says:

    This is ridiculous.

  91. brizz Says:

    this is the truth about what happened very sad indeed

    i only think it is as we are so afraid of things that are different and the human race does not like change

    its sad that racism is still around today but unfortunately it is human nature and what we are brought up to believe

    i myself do not like racism but i know of people alot older who are still unsure of everything

  92. Poopoo Says:

    I poopoo peepee!!

  93. lol Says:

    ME TOO I’M SO STUPID!!! I want to drink your peepee Poopoo,my master!

  94. martyn Says:

    i’m ***. remember that everyone.

  95. Poopoo Says:

    I pepee poopoo

  96. yeah Says:

    who the **** let that stinky, smelly niger drink our water? they only deserve to drink toilet water, if that!

  97. Chris Says:

    How can people leave such disgusting comments? Racism is filth. Barack Obama didnt get elected because African-Americans voted, he got elected because Americans voted. This doesn’t mean racism is finished in our country, OBVIOUSLY one can tell after reading many ignorant comments, however it shows that more and more people are being mature enough to look beyond race. Those who are incapable of reaching that maturity level are a disgrace.

  98. waddup Says:

    Obama has nothing to do with racism or rejection of racism. he is irrelevant to racism. Why people go on like he is anything but a horse of a different color with the same saddle on his back, being ridden by the same economic elite, is beyond me. He has already begun replacing the old cabiniet with the old cabinet, backed off the CIA, ad nauseum, yet you idiots seem to think he is going to do something for you and not for his masters. he will give you the scraps his bosses tell him to, no more no less, think they leave that stuff to chance? A billion dollars was spent on the election, think that left room for anyone who wasnt in their pay? fools. Bush and Obama are brothers under the skin my friends, thats the long and short of it! they are a dog and monkey show, or maybe a donkey and elephant show..hahahahahahaha

  99. poopoo Says:

    poopoo an elephant mans!

  100. foolsfun Says:

    why did they make this nice fountain for coloreds if they dont like them? Evidently they were considerate, now the coloreds dont have to drink from puddles anymore.

  101. NIGGERS Says:

    THE GOOD OLD DAYS

    I DARE ANY OF YOU TO LOOK AT CRIME RATES NOW AND CRIME RATES WHEN NIGERS WERE SEGREGATED

    WE LET THE NIGERS COMPLETELY DESTROY EVRYTHNG GOOD IN THE USA

  102. lol101lol Says:

    whoever is “lol”, i want to marry you. you are hilarious !!
    and…
    I don’t blame negro fellows liking other races. have you seen a negro chick lately? Ive seen baboons that are more attractive…….was so hilarious too. haha

  103. lol101lol Says:

    whoever lol is… add me on myspacee

  104. REAL POOPOO Says:

    *******">******* *******">******* dont only destroy usa they destroy the whole world ;)

  105. lol Says:

    marriage? myspace? aren’t we taking things a little far?

  106. tiff Says:

    *sigh* what a silly time. oh no can’t share the same fountain….dumb asses are drinking from the same water source the whole time. each fountain is connected by the same pipe. racism is pitiful.

  107. Martyn Says:

    they shouldnt have to see each other drink I dont think.

  108. Johnny Says:

    I have a question for black people. If you are proud to be an American why do you but Africa in front of -America( When I’m around black people and someone ask you a question about who you are you always respone with I’m a African-American) If you are proud of were you came from that’s ok with me, I’m proud of my heritage and were I came from also. I just say I’m an American !!! not a Irish,Mexican,Chinese,Italian etc….American Why put a title in front of were you come from? Why not just say your an American? Are you not proud to be an American?

  109. Johnny Says:

    I have a question for black people. If you are proud to be an American why do you put Africa in front of -America( When I’m around black people and someone ask you a question about who you are you always respone with I’m a African-American) If you are proud of were you came from that’s ok with me, I’m proud of my heritage and were I came from also. I just say I’m an American !!! not a Irish,Mexican,Chinese,Italian etc….American Why put a title in front of were you come from? Why not just say your an American? Are you not proud to be an American?

  110. fart Says:

    where can i get those white/collored signs from ?

  111. Water Fountain Girl Says:

    This is a crazy picture, we are really silly if we think that this is right. Besides that if you examine the picture there is no segregation just because there are two fountains the are still conected by the plumbing!….duh!

  112. Creosote Cowboy Says:

    Well I reckon all the horses oughta drink outa the same trough dont you?

  113. Mauro Says:

    wawowiwa! we bring them from africa, we enslave them and then, when they are kind of free (if free is running away from redneck *****) we segregate them! and now we make racist jokes!!!! YEAH home of the free and the brave! and mcdonalds, and the kkk, and the NRA, and the national bank, and the greatest toilet in the world!

    you should say you’re sorry lads, for such a young nation you’ve done some pretty messed up shit.

  114. Mark Shallow Says:

    Shocking photograph - and very sad, too.

    Anyone out there know if there were segregated drinking fountains in Chicago as late as 1965? Hit me up if you know Tx

  115. marlboro man Says:

    I reckon I dont want that cuss a drinking with my horse!

  116. Johnny Says:

    I have a question for black people. If you are proud to be an American why do you put Africa in front of -America( When I’m around black people and someone ask you a question about who you are you always respone with I’m a African-American) If you are proud of were you came from that’s ok with me, I’m proud of my heritage and were I came from also. I just say I’m an American !!! not a Irish,Mexican,Chinese,Italian etc….American Why put a title in front of were you come from? Why not just say your an American? Are you not proud to be an American?

  117. ema Says:

    It’s not right thing and there is no juctice to black people drink water from other place!!! I’m white!!! remember that what I say!!!

  118. whitepower Says:

    support racisem!
    White power

  119. Name Says:

    I don’t find this photograph offensive. I find racism to be offensive. It is an overlooked fact that the lower-quality living conditions in which the “colored” people in that day lived would rend them to be carriers of worse disease while the “whites” were cleaner and would not tolerate sharing the same living quarters and comfort equipment. Is this not the same as quarantine? C’mon people. Strike racism, just don’t be scientifically inconclusive. I know a clean black man is good and holy, but a dirty one is no different than a dirty white man. Back then, there were diseases that were only contained by segregation. Even the Holy Bible is acknowledged that if someone is with an infirmity that he is to say to all others approaching him “unclean” as quickly as possible. Looking to how Police Officers behave, they are the most racist creatures I’ve ever seen; one moment they are tackling a man with full body contact, then when they take him to the jailhouse they use gloves like he could be contagous with a disease. Those are the dirty and racist that are unclean.

  120. oyhb arythx Says:

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  121. Jorge C Says:

    Al Gores father and John F. Kennedy voted to keep segregation. Stupid libs. hahah Oh yeah, and Martin Luther King was a registered Republican

  122. boogy Says:

    whats funny to me is, is that black people in america, who bring up americas past oh so often, wont hesitate to bang a white chick. but the funny part of that is, is that most of the white chicks they are banging are the ones white men dont want.

    on a more positive note, this is what we call evolution people. it has happened since the beginging of man, the romans, egyptians, empire of china, if you think that white people in america are the most racist people on earth, wow not only are you stupid you are ***.

  123. boogy Says:

    woogy

  124. Twisted0liver Says:

    how is this evolution…its more sociology then anything. i don’t even think the people in this thread is worth flaming.. bunch of ignorance and stupidity. very powerful picture though.

  125. Jesse Says:

    Tor, your anti American sentiment is shared by many but people like you forget about the extraordinary amount of charity the citizens of this country provide to other nations. We have advanced medicine, agriculture, and technology, and provided a model of the most powerful economy ever known to humanity. It’s true that compared to France and other European nations we are lacking culturally but over all we are a kind and generous nation that has dealt more honestly with racial and equality issues than many, many, other nations - ESPECIALLY most of the developing world of whom many people of color fight to escape from in order to come to the U.S.

  126. Jesse Says:

    spelling, there - their - they’re.
    I know the diffeence but my fingers don’t. so much for literacy. I’ll drop off now - sorry I’m so long winded.

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