Myramills
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Thank you for Most viral. It's an honor. I've had two today (with my RNG, this is a miracle). We are making progress, ever slowly, we are moving forward. Keep speaking up, keep talking, keep questioning, knowledge is power, and we have that power... Yeah, I just read that, it sounds like I'm crazy. I'm not, I've been tested (kidding)
These children were given the burden of an entire nation. They handled it as better as any could, held their heads high as invisible scars were hashed accross their souls (or whatever you call it, up to you), and came out the other side to a victory.
I love what stories like this one represents. I can't explain how it makes me feel, humility maybe? Gratitude? And guilt. I'm a white women. I can never understand what she went through, what they all went through, or any person of color (is that the pc term?) who fought for their basic human rights, but I can feel what they were reaching for. Acceptance, acknowledgment, respect for who I am as I am.
FinnAndJakesTreeHouse
Progress must continue without hesitation for true equality.
GuardianGorilla
Wanna know how to solve racism? Everyone needs to stop making everything about race. What school you get into shouldnt be decided on ur race
sloppyyetsatisfying
She kept the smile :)
TheMagicalUpvoteFearie
As a European this stuff is mind-boggling to me
Charcharm
And it took a long time to happen after US helped defeat nazis.
Daddiboi
Fuck small changes people have been getting murdered for too long it's time for big changes
Myramills
I feel that's for a whole other post. It's like procrastination, it's the night before the test and now we need to cram. I feel you
streaktome
I was taught this was history, it's not, this is current events
Munchman347
I was in school in the 50's and thought WWll was about the same timeline as the Civil War. Time is relative...
themuttonisniceandlean
I had the opportunity to speak with one of the first Af. Am. people who went to Austin High at the beginning of desegregation in Austin, TX.
nopost
Execute order...
soepie7
66.
Notalizardinahumansuit
Gooooood....
Heywhatcouldgowrong
I don’t know. A Facebook meme said racism ended in 2007. But seriously, my parents were born before this. We have a ways to go.
ButterfaceTaintClown
thanks Pepsi
IsolatedAsshole
I feel that. I only just learned my parents were born the same year as her.
crusaderforpoland
Thankfully my parents were born 2007, the year racism ended.
bhazz
The US is a backwards, racist, third world country.
katweb8
I can’t even begin to image the pressure, stress and day to day negativity this poor child went through.
Dannyalcatraz
My grandfather was the first black principal of an all-white school in New Orleans.
Dannyalcatraz
My Dad was the first black to graduate from Tulane Medical school. That was the late 60’s.
Dannyalcatraz
I was the first black to graduate from a certain private HS in 1986.
Holo82
how can a black person visit a all white school? is it still all white school after she went there?
MadameRainbowPants
Been teaching my students about her this week, SO MUCH DISCUSSION, I’m sure I’m going to prob get a parent phone call soon.
pcvshadow101
I’m from the UK, I’m 66 and we had black and Asian kids in school. It was never an issue they were just regular kids .
ItsGonnaGetBetter
My grandfather and grandmother ran a pub in London during WW2, they refused to let in White American soilders who were upset (1)
ItsGonnaGetBetter
about black American soilders not having to segregated in British bars and pubs. It wasn't every solider but many were forced as (2)
ItsGonnaGetBetter
it was a rule the American army had. (3)
fknbastard
Slavery was banned earlier in all ?? colonies too. So George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc. actually made things worse for Black America
simmerdim
I'm nearly 70, northern England born, I can't recall any racism at all.
mikeymikec
Brexit demonstrated that plenty in the UK are still as racist as fuck; the electorate turned a blind eye to immigrants being equated with >
mikeymikec
legal immigrants, the tory party sending around "go home" poster vans, and freedom of movement being stopped as the highest negotiation >
mikeymikec
priority for Brexit. And still the UK voted for them.
mikeymikec
A friend of mine was recently heckled at a chippy for speaking to their child in lobjan; dickheads evidentlythought they heard a "foreigner"
PrinceSamaSanChanKun
Got 3 more years
Kazpur81S
Then tell your kids about Ruby Ridge
ethicallysourcedcannedtuna
My grandparents are 71 and got married at 16. They wouldnt let my gpa see my gma in the hospital after my mom was born bc he looked black.
Ventorath
It's always weird to realize how recent certain bits of "history" actually are.
annonymouse211
She was the cutest little kid EVER.
insufficientimagination
She’s just as cute now as then!
SkitzoFranny
Black people were about 10% of the population when she was born, so there were a LOT of all white schools even though segregation ended.
justgetmeouttahere
The Jim Crow laws were active until 1968, forced segregation was real in the south. Look into the population of the south during this time.
PirateArrrgument
Post this again in 2024. Nice.
AslanTheGod
Sixty fuckin six. Come on America, let's get our shit together!
macrology
I approve of this post and the sentiment behind it, but as a matter of historical fact, Ruby Bridges was not the first black student in /1
macrology
an integrated school in Louisiana. New Orleans had desegregated schools during the Reconstruction period that were, for a period of time, /2
macrology
rather successful in spite of persistent white supremacist opposition to their existence. These schools flourished for nearly a decade /3
macrology
and existed in some form until 1898 when Jim Crow reared its ugly head. It's an oft-overlooked segment of LA history and merits recognition.
macrology
Some real basic sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregated_public_schools_in_New_Orleans
Andalite
You might be happy to know that she’s taught about in school to kids already and has been for several decades
namesused
In our city, we named an elementary school after her. She’s not just a subject that’s taught in school, she’s a hero to the kids.
bcpowder
In some schools maybe.
RoyDMercer
How old is she?
notanotheruselessusername
66
cinnamontography
Don’t be a dick for dicks sake.
GanjaPlanet
What are you, sixty five?
heyitssnowing
Definitely not 69. No fun at all
Alfadorfox
Sixty-six.
narderthanthou
About tree fitty bitch.
toxcrusadr
Honestly she looks 46.
SpecialAgentCharlesCarmichael
iAcceptThat
How she old is??
stoplaughingandputitinyourmouth
3 years from Nice!
gaudybynautre
66.
Myramills
66. She was born September 8, 1954
PeterOlintoowesmeacoffee
She was still a teenager in HS when I was born. Damn
Myramills
Crazy huh?
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
Canada closed its last residential school in 1996... its a sad part of history as well. Very crazy how neither was very long ago. And sad.
kickmyballsrealhard
When did this historic moment occur? You gotta give us all the sauce OP!
Myramills
Um, she turned 66 in September? Lol I don't know the source, stole it from FB and double checked the information. It checked out
kickmyballsrealhard
She attended the first desegregated elementary school 11/14/60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
Myramills
NOW I see what you were asking for. Yes, that is what she did.
ItsActuallyDavidNow
If she was born September 8th, 1954... that would make her 66 years old.
JCBalance
Ok but enough with the hypotheticals, how old is she?
A5tor
How old is she now?
Rodltwo
66
heyitssnowing
But what’s her age at this moment?
Pandquin
66