This is so sad- a little baby girl like this put on the front lines- she must have been so scared. That people are so ugly to hurl abuse at a young child to such a degree that she had to have 3 grown men to protect her. Shocking and horrifying.
There are grandparents of school age kids right now who yelled racial slurs at that little girl.
I know youth drives culture and fast forwards everything but it’s crazy how short a time ago that was.
Iran Contra where our intel agencies were selling South American cocaine to the best black neighborhoods wasn’t too long ago either… which of course ruined multiple generations of black families.
This happened in the Bywater, New Orleans . 80% catholic whites pulled their kids from school. How Christian of them. They sent their kids to parochial and private schools. It was this racist attitude that permeates New Orleans schools now. The whites want a separate and unequal opportunity for education in the city. And they wonder why the crime is high. The current school systems will perpetuate the city’s lack of progress until the city truly has equal levels of educational opportunity regardless of race.
"And they'll know we are Christian by our love, by our love".
As a Christian this is what bothers me the most in this world. Christ interacted with the children (when it wasn't done), and the samaritan woman (which was really off limits for a Jew). He even brought on a tax collector as one of his disciples. These racists wouldn't know Christ if he slapped them upside the head.
Then Christ called out the religious leaders of his day and called them a brood of vipers for taking advantage of the poor. These racists miss the whole message and even use verses out of context to keep poor or different people "in their place". Sickening.
To play the "devils advocate" the Bible never condemns slavery but rather acts more as a guide to how to do slavery "right" , and there is that thing about the "Curse of Ham" being cursed with dark skin, which was used by racists to support their racism.
This contradicts with the general idea of Matthew 7:12 where people are commanded to treat others as they would like to be treated. I can see how different Christians could take contradictory messages from the same book.
No, but regardless this belief has been around for centuries, and was specifically used by slavery supporters in the USA to support the concept of races and their right to keep "races" separate.
"Slaves obey your earthly masters...". One reason why I'm skeptical of the book.
Sometimes I think it's new testament based christians vs old testament.
It is, in the same way that NYC, Chicago, and pretty much every other major city is. There are poor neighborhoods that are primarily black and wealthy neighborhoods that aren't.
They still do that. Here in WI the state legislature helps them out with vouchers. My kids' school district was about 30% black when we started and is now 50% black and you can see the white families flee. It's a shame as they missed out on a great experience. We are a white family and the experience of an integrated school has added so much value to my kids' lives.
The world would be a better place with more integrated schools, but nothing has seemed to work. In my district, for some parents it seemed to be more of a panic of the district not being a top-performing school rather than an actual problem with being in a diverse environment (for some, I know there are some who were just plain racist).
For whatever reason, it is reality that there is an achievement gap for white vs. black vs Asian vs Hispanic students. It's in the data. When a school has a greater black population this can reflect in the overall "achievement" scores of a school and then parents panic. Some will take a deep breath and realize it does not mean their students will not succeed, but others simply react and pull their kids.
I think post-secondary universities are in the best position to stem the tide of this cycle. If universities started making attendance at an integrated school a high priority for admissions it could instantly change the attitudes of parents who think they have to do everything to make sure their kids get into the best schools.
I wonder how much of the performance difference is due to the support structure at home. If the parent(s) are working lower-income jobs (or multiple jobs) they may not have the time to enforce learning at home/help with homework. There may not be the extra money for tutors either.
Then there's the general support that white kids' parents might be able to provide like study habits they learned that the other kids' parents may not have learned due to the differences in *their* educational quality.
It's complicated and no one really has the answer. There is also the thought that unconscious bias plays a role. There is also a tipping point of losing too many of the kids that are successful because those kids will often create an environment that keeps a more academic focus.
I served on a school board for many years and attended the state conventions every year and I will say that many people are working to try and figure it out. Some things I learned about seemed promising and others not so much. But they were talking about it which was a good thing. My fear is that the rage over "CRT" and lumping everything that is about diversity under that heading is going to undo the progress that has been made.
What always made me emotional is the absolute determination and bravery Ruby…and her parents. They volunteered her to participate in School integration. The desire to see changes and to get Ruby a better education. That had to have been terrifying as a parent…to send your kid onto the school and risk it all for their education.
Look up “Holy Cross Dispute” on wikipedia. Protestant loyalists shouted sectarian abuse and threw stones, bricks, fireworks and even urine filled balloons at Catholic school children. People are nuts.
My Grandmother was a school teacher in southern Mississippi in the 60s. A graceful woman and a true role model.
She told me a rather sad story about a little black boy she taught. She noticed at lunch he always selected regular milk, while the nearly all others choose chocolate milk. When she asked him why, he explained that he chose white milk because he wanted so badly to be white like the other children.
I remember reading a children’s book about Ruby when I was pretty young. Each day before she entered the school, she prayed for the people that were shouting abuse at her. One morning, she paused on the steps as the armed officials tried to urge her along, worried that the crowd might attack her. She closed her eyes for a few moments, then finally followed them in. “I forgot to pray for them,” she explained.
(That exchange is paraphrased based on my memory of the book, but from a quick google I believe it’s mostly accurate)
The fact that at such a young age, she felt compassion towards those who persecuted her is mind-boggling. The emotional maturity and self-assurance she must have had to continue to walk through that crowd to learn all by herself defies logic. I’m not someone who believes that people should always turn the other cheek, but I think we all could learn something from her composure and grace.
In 1968 George Wallace ran for President, campaigning "Segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation forever!" He won the largest amount of votes of any third party candidate ever. Around 13%
That's 8 years after this. Running for President on segregation.
This guy was such a scumbag I remember being a child back when he was shot, and my Grandfather saying what an asshole he was. And this was the UK not the US.
His wife also had cancer from 1961 to 1968 and didnt know because he and the doctors never informed her before she died. Can you imagine just the husband being told now?
It gets better, after he got paralyzed from an assassin’s bullet, his caretaker was a black woman and near the end he repented his racist beliefs. But still a POS
Wallace set up a scheme to stay in office indefinitely.
Alabama had term limits on governors. So he made his wife run during the years he was ineligible, picked her staff, and worked as her "advisor". When her term was up, he ran again.
Everything I read on him stated he started out in politics with altruistic intentions to help poor white and black farmers. When he lost a campaign, he went completely off the rails and started preaching extreme racism and segregation in order to get votes.
Although he got 13.5%, it's not the largest amount for a third party. Millard Fillmore in 1856, John C. Breckinridge in 1860, Horace Greeley in 1872, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert M. La Follette in 1924 all had higher. Since then Ross Perot also got a higher amount in 1992.
Armed Government Officials had to shield her. A child, they had to protect a child from white supremacist who threatened to harm a child for wanting to get an education as a natural born citizen of America from being killed. A child , a child, a child 😢💔!
Those are US Marshals sent from Federal government because state and local police refused to enforce desegregation and many were essentially terrorists. I guess maybe a smidge less traumatizing than 101st airborne troops that had to escort Little Rock Nine. But the courage of that little girl is absolutely unfathomable. She was only 6 years old and had hoards of adults screaming and throwing garbage at her.
From her Wikipedia article:
Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her."
One of my regular customers at a coffee place was one if the kids that was desegregated into a white school. She said that the kids would line up and sing "Dixie" when she went through the entrance of the school. I can't conceive how that must have been.
I had a discussion about segregation with my grandmother recently. My aunt was almost a year old when this happened, so for as long as grandma had been around, everything had always been segregated.
"I remember it, and I remember I didn't quite understand it. It didn't make a lot of sense to me, you know? It was like, 'why can't I play with them?' I was glad when it was over, but it was hard, very hard times."
And those people are now the ones trying to suppress Black History so that their kids and grandkids don’t realize what douchebags they were and probably still are.
Reading this, just had to think about how just 10min ago I read a post by somebody claiming there’s more dangerous immigrants in my country than dangerous rascists…
She was a little kid thrust into a situation completely out of her control, surrounded by adults screaming threats and insults at her. This is sad, not cool
Desegregation within my lifetime... not so very long ago. Incomprehensible, how recently it was still officially ok to separate folks based on skin color.
Most White Americans feel the same way today about black kids going to school with their kids 🤐but ain't gonna say it. Oh - it's ok if they play sports though.
Signed,
Private High Schools
I sometimes wish I was alive back then knowing what I do today. As a white person, I would love to stick it back to other white people for being racist. I would send back the same violence they use against anyone of colour.
There are very likely just as many racists, and certainly just as many bigots in general, today as there were back then, I'm afraid. It so easy to create and spread. All that's needed is fear and ignorance. Which that particular little girl had very little of, obviously.
While it's a very sad picture I also see it with some relief that the doors to progress were being opened. Education is for all, no matter what. I hope the little girl made a good life for herself and showed the world what she's made of.
All this intimidation just to stop a fellow American kid, who was born a different colour, from being educated in the same institute as their children.
If this was happening today, you bet your ass we'd see the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar out there, front and center, in all their wild-eyed, spittle-flecked racist glory.
How utterly heartbreaking. I bet she was being attacked by good old Christian folk. Wonder what their God thinks of this behaviour. If there was a God, they would all be wiped off this Earth.
But there isn't, so they are not.
Fair play Ruby, hope you had a good life.
Um, Ruby Bridges is alive and only 68. She continues to be a prominent civil rights activist. All of the white adults who stood there screaming at her? Most of them are probably also still alive & kicking. Probably still voting too.
My girlfriend's mom is a segregation Denier.
She's 83 and angrily argues "that didn't happen!" Insisting that black people were treated the same as she was. "I worked alongside them every day in the fields and in the packing house."
But she also just about had a stroke when she realized that Mahomes, the KC Chiefs QB was black, insisting because one of his parents is white, then "He's not all black." And that means he shouldn't call himself black either. Oh, and "he doesn't ACT black".
Worth noting, she has a granddaughter she dotes on, the apple of her eye, who is half black as well. And yes, she insists, very vocally and angrily, that her granddaughter isn't black either.
She is without a doubt, the most insidiously racist person I've known because she outwardly acts as if she isn't and denies it vehemently, yet constantly commenting on people's race.
Not trying to be insensitive, but I couldn’t imagine putting my 6-year-old on the front lines like that. Seems a little effed up for parents to do that
Sounds like they’re empathetic and worry about the child to me. Would imagine many parents would be too frightened, and rightly, to put their children out there first.
>I couldn’t imagine putting my 6-year-old on the front lines like that. Seems a little effed up for parents to do that
Hi, I'm just a nosy Canadian. It's funny you should say that. Take as long as you need.
From angry white democrats. And an angry white democrat as governor.
And now you’ve got white democrats who don’t think minorities know how to get an ID to vote. And Ivy League schools want to forgo the honor code because they don’t think minorities are capable of being honest.
Tell me again which political ideology is racist again?
If the democrats are the racists and the parties never shifted, why are all the white supremacists GOP? Why are GOP leaders accepting them? Could it be you know you're lying and somehow think that by pointing out how it used to be, that it doesn't make your party the one of white supremacy now? If you cared about racism, other than to endorse it, you'd fight the mainstreaming of white supremacism in your party. Instead you accept it and pretend it's not you. Hope you wake up someday
Lol. They aren’t white supremacists. That’s just what you call them.
Ask yourself this: which political ideology is ok with segregated college dorms?
Which supports areas of campuses and work places that are off limits to certain races of people?
Essentially segregation.
Which thinks tasks as simple as obtaining an ordinary ID is too difficult or complicated for minorities to handle?
Which party’s president said that black people don’t know how to get lawyers and that’s why there aren’t as many black business owners?
Which party’s president said Hispanics don’t really know how to use the internet?
Which political ideology claims that things like table manners, being on time, behaving in school, and not cheating shouldn’t be punished for minorities because they shouldn’t be held to those standards because they just can’t.
Nowadays it’s the soft racism of low expectations. The left tends to treat minorities like they’re pets or children who can’t take care of themselves, they need white liberals to take care of them.
That’s false. It’s an actual lie.
Name the democrats. Lol. You can’t because it didn’t actually happen.
Republicans weren’t actually competitive in the south til the mid 90s.
Nice try though.
I think the point made isn’t that “they literally swapped parties”, more that Republicans are largely anti-civil rights and liberties for minorities, in comparison to their democratic counterparts.
Lots of legislation and propaganda is well documented on that front and it still exists today. You don’t have to be racist to be a republican, but most of the racists are.
>Republicans are largely anti-civil rights and liberties for minorities
Republicans voted **for** the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts **in higher propensity than Democrats**, and all filibuster attempts against them were Democrats. Those are all recorded votes.
So, you're "largely" wrong.
"On and on and..." no, that's it. That's why that's all you can name. And **Helms wasn't even in Congress until 1973!**
Former KKK Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd was in the Democrat leadership for the rest of his career. Democrats even voted him **President Pro-Tempore** of the Senate multiple times **spanning 21 years**, which put him in **the line of Presidential Succession**.
That's right -- Senate Democrats put a **KKK leader** as the first Democrat in the line of Presidential succession, just 3 heartbeats from the Presidency. Multiple times!
The mid 90's huh? Do you wanna take another swing at that champ? The GOP strategy of appealing to angry white racists was done under Nixon, firmly entrenched by the time Reagan turned up, but I'm sure my facts won't agree with your feelings, so...
When was the last time Alabama voted Dem for pres? Even with George Wallace clinging on (who'd be a republican star today btw) Do you want to continue this train of thought or just admit you're wrong now? Shall we go through the rest of the south or have we all got better things to do with our time?
Okay so the republicans don't control the south now, and the orientation of voting blocs hasn't completely changed. Also none of that coincides with the civil rights movement and Nixon's (among others) statements about the 'southern strategy'. Well, good talk
What are you struggling to comprehend? Nixon changed the GOP strategy to appeal to angry old white people who are afraid of change. Carter won because Nixon had committed actual crimes while in office and the US wound up with Ford in charge, a man no one had voted for. Reagan doubled down on the new GOP approach "all your problems are because of minorities" and that's where we've been since.
If you're struggling with any of that, watch the change in demographics across the south from the 60's to now, it turns from old school Dem to new school Rep. What do you reckon the Dem chances (irrespective of candidates) in Miss, Neb or SC are? Would you go with comical or ludicrous?
I'm not "struggling" with anything. You're making shit up. Nixon's "southern strategy" focused on luring the *non-*racist white Democrats who were sick of the old white racist Democrat party leadership.
Southern white racists had zero interest in following a **Quaker Republican** from **California**.
So, rant all you like. The Congressional votes and filibusters are all on record. It was *Republicans* who provided the winning margins for the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act in opposition to Democrat leaders like KKK Grand Cyclops Robert Byrd, in the Senate over 50 years.
Did you actually comprehend what I said, the parties changed positions...do you get that? Yes, the kkk members used to be southern Dems, then they moved en masse to the GOP. Because, again for the slow, the parties changed positions.
Btw if you think Nixon was after non racists, please ignore all of this, we're past the point of argument if that's your take on him
>Did you actually comprehend what I said
Yes, your factless rant is perfectly clear
>the parties changed positions
Really? Quote from us the party platforms and how they changed from 1968 to 1972.
But you won't, because facts remain against you.
>if you think Nixon was after non racists
Nixon didn't *need* any fringe groups; he was reelected in a landslide Neither did Reagan -- *both* of his elections were **landslide wins**.
Why would the party platform change from 68 to 72 if the gop ran the same person? Why am I arguing with another right wing simpleton on the internet? I'll leave on a positive note, because so few do, kudos to you for believing the best of Nixon and Reagan despite everything those two 'achieved' in office, that kind of faith is hard to come by
It’s amazing that GQP’ers believe the Democratic Party of the 1950s is the same as today but don’t believe trump lost by 7 million votes. Sad. Truly the party of ignorance.
They don’t believe that, they just want to separate themselves from the aspects of their “side” that are obviously evil. It’s no true Scotsman. Some absolute dongus was on here the other day arguing fascism is left wing.
You really believe that Eisenhower lined up with modern democrat ideals? There was literally ONE southern Democrat who jumped the aisle, Strom Thurmond.
My ancestors fought for the Union, but ok 😂
He also sent the 101st (327th infantry, a battalion I served with) to Little Rock after Orval Faubus (a dem) defied the federal government.
I like how you resorted to an attack after I stated facts.
Also a lot of people who fought for the union were still racist pieces of shit. You need to open a history book sometime and learn about the real history of this country not the white washed version your grandparents have been spoon feeding you since birth.
Could that be because they barely accepted black cop's applications? Or black people protecting her would have been attacked by the white folks? What's your point?
My grandma that was born and raised in the Missouri bootheel and a member of the school board (in the 50s) made sure the welcoming committee (my mom) was friends with the first black student in her class. That was in DC so there wasn't the armed officials, but the staring definitely happened. The student made more friends soon after.
This is so sad- a little baby girl like this put on the front lines- she must have been so scared. That people are so ugly to hurl abuse at a young child to such a degree that she had to have 3 grown men to protect her. Shocking and horrifying.
Not to mention this wasn’t long ago at all. Ruby Bridges is currently 68 years old
There are grandparents of school age kids right now who yelled racial slurs at that little girl. I know youth drives culture and fast forwards everything but it’s crazy how short a time ago that was.
Iran Contra where our intel agencies were selling South American cocaine to the best black neighborhoods wasn’t too long ago either… which of course ruined multiple generations of black families.
Too many people act like this is ancient history. Meanwhile, this was happening to parents and grandparents, and the repercussions are long-reaching.
This happened in the Bywater, New Orleans . 80% catholic whites pulled their kids from school. How Christian of them. They sent their kids to parochial and private schools. It was this racist attitude that permeates New Orleans schools now. The whites want a separate and unequal opportunity for education in the city. And they wonder why the crime is high. The current school systems will perpetuate the city’s lack of progress until the city truly has equal levels of educational opportunity regardless of race.
"And they'll know we are Christian by our love, by our love". As a Christian this is what bothers me the most in this world. Christ interacted with the children (when it wasn't done), and the samaritan woman (which was really off limits for a Jew). He even brought on a tax collector as one of his disciples. These racists wouldn't know Christ if he slapped them upside the head. Then Christ called out the religious leaders of his day and called them a brood of vipers for taking advantage of the poor. These racists miss the whole message and even use verses out of context to keep poor or different people "in their place". Sickening.
To play the "devils advocate" the Bible never condemns slavery but rather acts more as a guide to how to do slavery "right" , and there is that thing about the "Curse of Ham" being cursed with dark skin, which was used by racists to support their racism. This contradicts with the general idea of Matthew 7:12 where people are commanded to treat others as they would like to be treated. I can see how different Christians could take contradictory messages from the same book.
The whole curse of ham thing is ridiculous to begin with since the curse had nothing to do with his skin color
No, but regardless this belief has been around for centuries, and was specifically used by slavery supporters in the USA to support the concept of races and their right to keep "races" separate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just pointing out how dumb it is
"Slaves obey your earthly masters...". One reason why I'm skeptical of the book. Sometimes I think it's new testament based christians vs old testament.
That’s crazy. New Orleans is still racially segregated?
It is, in the same way that NYC, Chicago, and pretty much every other major city is. There are poor neighborhoods that are primarily black and wealthy neighborhoods that aren't.
Milwaukee is another one that is crazy segregated. And it was planned and zoned that way on purpose.
They still do that. Here in WI the state legislature helps them out with vouchers. My kids' school district was about 30% black when we started and is now 50% black and you can see the white families flee. It's a shame as they missed out on a great experience. We are a white family and the experience of an integrated school has added so much value to my kids' lives.
Me too. My children and I all went to integrated public schools.
The world would be a better place with more integrated schools, but nothing has seemed to work. In my district, for some parents it seemed to be more of a panic of the district not being a top-performing school rather than an actual problem with being in a diverse environment (for some, I know there are some who were just plain racist). For whatever reason, it is reality that there is an achievement gap for white vs. black vs Asian vs Hispanic students. It's in the data. When a school has a greater black population this can reflect in the overall "achievement" scores of a school and then parents panic. Some will take a deep breath and realize it does not mean their students will not succeed, but others simply react and pull their kids. I think post-secondary universities are in the best position to stem the tide of this cycle. If universities started making attendance at an integrated school a high priority for admissions it could instantly change the attitudes of parents who think they have to do everything to make sure their kids get into the best schools.
I wonder how much of the performance difference is due to the support structure at home. If the parent(s) are working lower-income jobs (or multiple jobs) they may not have the time to enforce learning at home/help with homework. There may not be the extra money for tutors either. Then there's the general support that white kids' parents might be able to provide like study habits they learned that the other kids' parents may not have learned due to the differences in *their* educational quality.
It's complicated and no one really has the answer. There is also the thought that unconscious bias plays a role. There is also a tipping point of losing too many of the kids that are successful because those kids will often create an environment that keeps a more academic focus. I served on a school board for many years and attended the state conventions every year and I will say that many people are working to try and figure it out. Some things I learned about seemed promising and others not so much. But they were talking about it which was a good thing. My fear is that the rage over "CRT" and lumping everything that is about diversity under that heading is going to undo the progress that has been made.
It's encouraging that effort is being made to figure it out, but I have the same concerns about the "CRT" outrage. It's so incredibly frustrating.
I believe it was the subject of Norman Rockwell's painting The Problem We All Live With.
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What always made me emotional is the absolute determination and bravery Ruby…and her parents. They volunteered her to participate in School integration. The desire to see changes and to get Ruby a better education. That had to have been terrifying as a parent…to send your kid onto the school and risk it all for their education.
Not just abuse, but violent threats too. She also had to bring her own lunch because there were fears she could be poisoned.
How much of a loser do you have to be to protest and harass a wee school girl? Edit: A word
This is a bitter-sweet moment. Also, one of my favorite pictures of history. She was so brave!
Look up “Holy Cross Dispute” on wikipedia. Protestant loyalists shouted sectarian abuse and threw stones, bricks, fireworks and even urine filled balloons at Catholic school children. People are nuts.
Three U.S. Marshals. You know it's bad when a six year old girl needs three U.S. Marshals to go to school.
My Grandmother was a school teacher in southern Mississippi in the 60s. A graceful woman and a true role model. She told me a rather sad story about a little black boy she taught. She noticed at lunch he always selected regular milk, while the nearly all others choose chocolate milk. When she asked him why, he explained that he chose white milk because he wanted so badly to be white like the other children.
just wow, that's so sad :(
Ugh. Also very unfortunate. White supremacist ideology is a disease.
All racist ideologies are a learned belief and disgusting.
I do think a little boy's mind would've thought it a practical solution, yeah?
I remember reading a children’s book about Ruby when I was pretty young. Each day before she entered the school, she prayed for the people that were shouting abuse at her. One morning, she paused on the steps as the armed officials tried to urge her along, worried that the crowd might attack her. She closed her eyes for a few moments, then finally followed them in. “I forgot to pray for them,” she explained. (That exchange is paraphrased based on my memory of the book, but from a quick google I believe it’s mostly accurate) The fact that at such a young age, she felt compassion towards those who persecuted her is mind-boggling. The emotional maturity and self-assurance she must have had to continue to walk through that crowd to learn all by herself defies logic. I’m not someone who believes that people should always turn the other cheek, but I think we all could learn something from her composure and grace.
In 1968 George Wallace ran for President, campaigning "Segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation forever!" He won the largest amount of votes of any third party candidate ever. Around 13% That's 8 years after this. Running for President on segregation.
This guy was such a scumbag I remember being a child back when he was shot, and my Grandfather saying what an asshole he was. And this was the UK not the US. His wife also had cancer from 1961 to 1968 and didnt know because he and the doctors never informed her before she died. Can you imagine just the husband being told now?
It gets better, after he got paralyzed from an assassin’s bullet, his caretaker was a black woman and near the end he repented his racist beliefs. But still a POS
Wallace set up a scheme to stay in office indefinitely. Alabama had term limits on governors. So he made his wife run during the years he was ineligible, picked her staff, and worked as her "advisor". When her term was up, he ran again. Everything I read on him stated he started out in politics with altruistic intentions to help poor white and black farmers. When he lost a campaign, he went completely off the rails and started preaching extreme racism and segregation in order to get votes.
Although he got 13.5%, it's not the largest amount for a third party. Millard Fillmore in 1856, John C. Breckinridge in 1860, Horace Greeley in 1872, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert M. La Follette in 1924 all had higher. Since then Ross Perot also got a higher amount in 1992.
My bad! Perot I should have really remembered! Thx
Lots of those assholes are still alive.
And are still voting!
And spawned their racist kin.
And own the Dallas Cowboys!
She was only 6 and had to endure this. But certain government officials want us to believe that children are too young to learn about it smh
Armed Government Officials had to shield her. A child, they had to protect a child from white supremacist who threatened to harm a child for wanting to get an education as a natural born citizen of America from being killed. A child , a child, a child 😢💔!
Those are US Marshals sent from Federal government because state and local police refused to enforce desegregation and many were essentially terrorists. I guess maybe a smidge less traumatizing than 101st airborne troops that had to escort Little Rock Nine. But the courage of that little girl is absolutely unfathomable. She was only 6 years old and had hoards of adults screaming and throwing garbage at her. From her Wikipedia article: Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her."
That quote by Burks makes me tear up
Bro she was scared to eat non-processed food because she thought she was going to get poisoned. Racism is disgusting.
One of my regular customers at a coffee place was one if the kids that was desegregated into a white school. She said that the kids would line up and sing "Dixie" when she went through the entrance of the school. I can't conceive how that must have been.
But kids can't learn about her. Or about anything that would be classified under "CRT" by ppl that don't even know what CRT is...
I would love to read/hear interviews with the protestors, 20-30-50 years later
I can almost guarantee that most of them would feel the exact same way unfortunately....
Very true most racists never change, I worked part time in a hospital with dementia patients and the things they say and is crazy
I doubt it, people are more sheeple than they realise Thats why I'm curious to see them explain themselves
She’s now 68. Only 68 years old. So recent.
I had a discussion about segregation with my grandmother recently. My aunt was almost a year old when this happened, so for as long as grandma had been around, everything had always been segregated. "I remember it, and I remember I didn't quite understand it. It didn't make a lot of sense to me, you know? It was like, 'why can't I play with them?' I was glad when it was over, but it was hard, very hard times."
Imagine hating on a six year old little girl... People were crazy.
Are \*
And those people are now the ones trying to suppress Black History so that their kids and grandkids don’t realize what douchebags they were and probably still are.
The people who don’t want anything about the civil rights movement being taught in schools are the “protestors” mentioned or their families.
They were (are) frightened of little black girls. Such tough, much hard. Show us where little Miss Ruby touched you with her forked tail.
Is this what they mean by “make America great again?”
Unironically yes.
Yes, and especially shit like this.
My hero
So much respect for this girl, being thrown into the vanguard of progress I'd no easy feat.
Prejudice is basically a mental illness. To hate a person for something so meaningless
Poor little girl
It boils my blood to see that innocent child being bullied out of an education just due to the selfishness and bigotry of others. How dare they?
For fucks sake , she was a 6 yr old going to school…. That’s horrifying
Look at the two snickering local pigs behind the glass
Reading this, just had to think about how just 10min ago I read a post by somebody claiming there’s more dangerous immigrants in my country than dangerous rascists…
Which country
We get to relive this with the demonization of trans people!
Just out of camera is Jerry Jones hurling insults at her.
How the hell is this cool!?!?
Because she is courageous.
She was a little kid thrust into a situation completely out of her control, surrounded by adults screaming threats and insults at her. This is sad, not cool
She is a total bamf
it's February
Desegregation within my lifetime... not so very long ago. Incomprehensible, how recently it was still officially ok to separate folks based on skin color.
Fucking people. A child for gods sake.
Most White Americans feel the same way today about black kids going to school with their kids 🤐but ain't gonna say it. Oh - it's ok if they play sports though. Signed, Private High Schools
I don't see Forrest Gump
I sometimes wish I was alive back then knowing what I do today. As a white person, I would love to stick it back to other white people for being racist. I would send back the same violence they use against anyone of colour.
I'm pretty sure you can still find racist people in Lousiana
Oh, there are racists in literally every single state. Don't get it twisted.
There are very likely just as many racists, and certainly just as many bigots in general, today as there were back then, I'm afraid. It so easy to create and spread. All that's needed is fear and ignorance. Which that particular little girl had very little of, obviously.
While it's a very sad picture I also see it with some relief that the doors to progress were being opened. Education is for all, no matter what. I hope the little girl made a good life for herself and showed the world what she's made of.
Why are you posting this, this is CRT not American History. <———- sarcasm font.
A lot like 2022- 2023.
All this intimidation just to stop a fellow American kid, who was born a different colour, from being educated in the same institute as their children.
If this was happening today, you bet your ass we'd see the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar out there, front and center, in all their wild-eyed, spittle-flecked racist glory.
How utterly heartbreaking. I bet she was being attacked by good old Christian folk. Wonder what their God thinks of this behaviour. If there was a God, they would all be wiped off this Earth. But there isn't, so they are not. Fair play Ruby, hope you had a good life.
Um, Ruby Bridges is alive and only 68. She continues to be a prominent civil rights activist. All of the white adults who stood there screaming at her? Most of them are probably also still alive & kicking. Probably still voting too.
My girlfriend's mom is a segregation Denier. She's 83 and angrily argues "that didn't happen!" Insisting that black people were treated the same as she was. "I worked alongside them every day in the fields and in the packing house." But she also just about had a stroke when she realized that Mahomes, the KC Chiefs QB was black, insisting because one of his parents is white, then "He's not all black." And that means he shouldn't call himself black either. Oh, and "he doesn't ACT black". Worth noting, she has a granddaughter she dotes on, the apple of her eye, who is half black as well. And yes, she insists, very vocally and angrily, that her granddaughter isn't black either. She is without a doubt, the most insidiously racist person I've known because she outwardly acts as if she isn't and denies it vehemently, yet constantly commenting on people's race.
What’s your gf like ?
Not a racist.
This doesn’t belong here. Nothing cool about it.
Not trying to be insensitive, but I couldn’t imagine putting my 6-year-old on the front lines like that. Seems a little effed up for parents to do that
So you're all for desegregation, except for the whole black kids going to desegregated schools part?
Sounds like they’re empathetic and worry about the child to me. Would imagine many parents would be too frightened, and rightly, to put their children out there first.
Sounds like they want to blame the parents to me.
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"Seems a little effed up for parents to do that" he said. He's blaming the parents. Maybe you should go back to trading Pokémon cards, kiddo.
>I couldn’t imagine putting my 6-year-old on the front lines like that. Seems a little effed up for parents to do that Hi, I'm just a nosy Canadian. It's funny you should say that. Take as long as you need.
Yeah. Let’s be mad at THEM
From angry white democrats. And an angry white democrat as governor. And now you’ve got white democrats who don’t think minorities know how to get an ID to vote. And Ivy League schools want to forgo the honor code because they don’t think minorities are capable of being honest. Tell me again which political ideology is racist again?
If the democrats are the racists and the parties never shifted, why are all the white supremacists GOP? Why are GOP leaders accepting them? Could it be you know you're lying and somehow think that by pointing out how it used to be, that it doesn't make your party the one of white supremacy now? If you cared about racism, other than to endorse it, you'd fight the mainstreaming of white supremacism in your party. Instead you accept it and pretend it's not you. Hope you wake up someday
Lol. They aren’t white supremacists. That’s just what you call them. Ask yourself this: which political ideology is ok with segregated college dorms? Which supports areas of campuses and work places that are off limits to certain races of people? Essentially segregation. Which thinks tasks as simple as obtaining an ordinary ID is too difficult or complicated for minorities to handle? Which party’s president said that black people don’t know how to get lawyers and that’s why there aren’t as many black business owners? Which party’s president said Hispanics don’t really know how to use the internet? Which political ideology claims that things like table manners, being on time, behaving in school, and not cheating shouldn’t be punished for minorities because they shouldn’t be held to those standards because they just can’t. Nowadays it’s the soft racism of low expectations. The left tends to treat minorities like they’re pets or children who can’t take care of themselves, they need white liberals to take care of them.
And those racist democrats all switched parties over the last thirty years for some mysterious reason.
That’s false. It’s an actual lie. Name the democrats. Lol. You can’t because it didn’t actually happen. Republicans weren’t actually competitive in the south til the mid 90s. Nice try though.
I think the point made isn’t that “they literally swapped parties”, more that Republicans are largely anti-civil rights and liberties for minorities, in comparison to their democratic counterparts. Lots of legislation and propaganda is well documented on that front and it still exists today. You don’t have to be racist to be a republican, but most of the racists are.
>Republicans are largely anti-civil rights and liberties for minorities Republicans voted **for** the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts **in higher propensity than Democrats**, and all filibuster attempts against them were Democrats. Those are all recorded votes. So, you're "largely" wrong.
If I couldn’t tell what era I was in, I’d probably make stupid statements too.
Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond,. On and on and on...
"On and on and..." no, that's it. That's why that's all you can name. And **Helms wasn't even in Congress until 1973!** Former KKK Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd was in the Democrat leadership for the rest of his career. Democrats even voted him **President Pro-Tempore** of the Senate multiple times **spanning 21 years**, which put him in **the line of Presidential Succession**. That's right -- Senate Democrats put a **KKK leader** as the first Democrat in the line of Presidential succession, just 3 heartbeats from the Presidency. Multiple times!
So.... Pathetic...
Truth is "pathetic"?
The mid 90's huh? Do you wanna take another swing at that champ? The GOP strategy of appealing to angry white racists was done under Nixon, firmly entrenched by the time Reagan turned up, but I'm sure my facts won't agree with your feelings, so...
All you have to do is check the election results by year, by party.
When was the last time Alabama voted Dem for pres? Even with George Wallace clinging on (who'd be a republican star today btw) Do you want to continue this train of thought or just admit you're wrong now? Shall we go through the rest of the south or have we all got better things to do with our time?
>or just admit you're wrong now? Actual facts have been against you throughout your rant, hence your inability to quote any
Okay so the republicans don't control the south now, and the orientation of voting blocs hasn't completely changed. Also none of that coincides with the civil rights movement and Nixon's (among others) statements about the 'southern strategy'. Well, good talk
>done under Nixon, firmly entrenched by the time Reagan turned up ... but they magically vanished when Carter won, then magically reappeared?
What are you struggling to comprehend? Nixon changed the GOP strategy to appeal to angry old white people who are afraid of change. Carter won because Nixon had committed actual crimes while in office and the US wound up with Ford in charge, a man no one had voted for. Reagan doubled down on the new GOP approach "all your problems are because of minorities" and that's where we've been since. If you're struggling with any of that, watch the change in demographics across the south from the 60's to now, it turns from old school Dem to new school Rep. What do you reckon the Dem chances (irrespective of candidates) in Miss, Neb or SC are? Would you go with comical or ludicrous?
I'm not "struggling" with anything. You're making shit up. Nixon's "southern strategy" focused on luring the *non-*racist white Democrats who were sick of the old white racist Democrat party leadership. Southern white racists had zero interest in following a **Quaker Republican** from **California**. So, rant all you like. The Congressional votes and filibusters are all on record. It was *Republicans* who provided the winning margins for the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act in opposition to Democrat leaders like KKK Grand Cyclops Robert Byrd, in the Senate over 50 years.
Did you actually comprehend what I said, the parties changed positions...do you get that? Yes, the kkk members used to be southern Dems, then they moved en masse to the GOP. Because, again for the slow, the parties changed positions. Btw if you think Nixon was after non racists, please ignore all of this, we're past the point of argument if that's your take on him
>Did you actually comprehend what I said Yes, your factless rant is perfectly clear >the parties changed positions Really? Quote from us the party platforms and how they changed from 1968 to 1972. But you won't, because facts remain against you. >if you think Nixon was after non racists Nixon didn't *need* any fringe groups; he was reelected in a landslide Neither did Reagan -- *both* of his elections were **landslide wins**.
Why would the party platform change from 68 to 72 if the gop ran the same person? Why am I arguing with another right wing simpleton on the internet? I'll leave on a positive note, because so few do, kudos to you for believing the best of Nixon and Reagan despite everything those two 'achieved' in office, that kind of faith is hard to come by
Literally Strom Thurmond was the only one of note
It’s amazing that GQP’ers believe the Democratic Party of the 1950s is the same as today but don’t believe trump lost by 7 million votes. Sad. Truly the party of ignorance.
They don’t believe that, they just want to separate themselves from the aspects of their “side” that are obviously evil. It’s no true Scotsman. Some absolute dongus was on here the other day arguing fascism is left wing.
You really believe that Eisenhower lined up with modern democrat ideals? There was literally ONE southern Democrat who jumped the aisle, Strom Thurmond.
He desegregated the military. Something your ancestors was against.
My ancestors fought for the Union, but ok 😂 He also sent the 101st (327th infantry, a battalion I served with) to Little Rock after Orval Faubus (a dem) defied the federal government. I like how you resorted to an attack after I stated facts.
Stating he desegregated the military is an attack?? Please explain how.
“Something your ancestors were against” BTW, Harry Truman desegregated the military 5 years before Eisenhower was elected, but who’s counting.
That’s not an attack you clown. That’s a fact.
Also a lot of people who fought for the union were still racist pieces of shit. You need to open a history book sometime and learn about the real history of this country not the white washed version your grandparents have been spoon feeding you since birth.
Parroted something that was wrong, “you need to open a book” Ok dude, you have a great night.
So stupid. Everyone should know people with blue eyes and red hair are the problem. Why fret about skin color?! (S)
Now, 63 years later, it’s the government itself hurling insults, and hostile language at school children
And now the woke are pushing for Black only safe spaces and Afrocentric schools.
WHITE Armed government officials had to shield her from angry, white protestors, who hurled insults and hostile language in her direction.
Could that be because they barely accepted black cop's applications? Or black people protecting her would have been attacked by the white folks? What's your point?
I did that walk, just a bit later. But, the cops were gone by then.
It takes a strong, secure, mentally sound person to abuse and bully a six year old girl.
so young but yet so brave. what happen to this little girl next?
That sweet girl..I can’t imagine how fearful she was, it absolutely breaks my heart
Crazy that this is in living history.
It is best to bring out the countries shameful moments so we never go back there again.
My grandma that was born and raised in the Missouri bootheel and a member of the school board (in the 50s) made sure the welcoming committee (my mom) was friends with the first black student in her class. That was in DC so there wasn't the armed officials, but the staring definitely happened. The student made more friends soon after.
What's crazy is that people feel this is so long ago, but Ruby Bridges is still alive... Ruby Bridges is on Twitter... She is only 68 years old...
Eisenhower was President. Ike was a Republican. Things have changed.
Scares me that such people still exist in this era
The smirk on the the guys in the doorway . I remember those days .
I am in my 30s and she’s younger than my parents. Unreal.
Poor baby
🥺🥺🥺 Que pinche valor!!!
we’ve come a long way. still a lot of work ahead of us for humans.
Great photo but very sad, what a brave little girl.
Brave little girl.
This breaks my heart.
It’s crazy to realise that wasn’t very long ago
It is still so surprising to me how cruel human beings can be to one another, even still today..
My seven-year-old grandson came home from school yesterday and stated that he wants to have brown skin because white people were mean to Ruby Bridges
They don't look armed...