A little reminder for all those who say segregation was “so long ago”: Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school, is still alive and well.
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I'm 44. My Mum is 65. My Mum was at school before segregation in the US ended. Living memory is not 'so long ago'. The battle of Hastings is 'so long ago' and some people are still not over it!
I was so naïve that just recently was I even aware that there were so many people that are closet haters, politicians were willing to turn back time to the 1950’s and LGBTQ needed therapy to “pray the gay away”!
I do not like the world we’re living in.
💯❗️Let’s not forget the successes achieved thru hard-fought and painful battles to ameliorate inhumane & unjust inequalities in our recent history. Now a cast of bigoted misfits are poised to take a wrecking ball to these hard fought rights & freedoms, setting our nation back decades.
I always thought the pacing of history education needs a re-work, so by the time you are done with K-12 you are caught up to the present--it seems everyone can tell you American history until around the Civil War then it goes off a cliff.
My grandmother couldn't vote when she turned 18. When I was in high school women couldn't get a credit card or loan without a husbands signature. And interracial marriage or sex was illegal in the south. DO SOMETHING WE"RE GOING BACKWARDS
Segregation is an heinous public policy of aggression against those with less political power regardless of color, race or economic agency that is unfortunately still alive and metastasizing today.
Living in my town 40 years. All that time there was ONE Black family. Don't know if there are any now. Segregation is alive and well. Have never seen a Black person in our A&P which is now Acqui. Our kids never had a Black student in their public school.
Yes, we still had “black schools” and “Indian schools” in southern states b4 1965. Many across the railroad tracks (or on the res) in sub standard facilities. That was only 64 years ago.
Slavery never went away, it festered in the hearts and minds of the descendants of slave owners, poor whites and deluded nonwhites —The election of a black President was a bridge too far.
long ago in some ways- but these memories live on, small and and big traumas passed down through the generations. I wish John Roberts was smart enough (or not an asshole) to know this. Maybe then he would not have gutted Voting Rights and other corrective actions that were put in place.
It's not that long ago. Segregation still exists in ways that people don't realize. Look at who lives where and thus where 1 goes to school. Look at the racial breakdown in those areas and at the schools. Jim Crow still exists in ways people don't want to admit.
Ruby is my age. I clearly remember seeing those horrible scenes on the evening news. A little girl being jeered and taunted by a bunch of worthless adults. Many of those assholes are still alive too
I've heard there was a concerted effort on the part of textbook publishers to use black and white pictures to push these issues into "history". Not certain this is 100% true, but it sure walks like a duck
One edit I would make is extend this through the voting rights act of 1965. In many ways we have been on a slightly more level playing field beginning in 1965.
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Ruby has long sold the story she was the only one. There is more to the story.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonogh_Three
I do not like the world we’re living in.
Always helps me to put it into perspective.
https://youthtoday.org/2024/05/segregation-academies-still-operate-across-the-south-one-town-grapples-with-its-divided-schools/
Both of my grandparents were born within 30 years of the end of the Civil War, and knew people who had been slaves in the south.
The past isn't really so past.
A lot of recent ugliness..
📣“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." - Rosa Parks