Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ 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.“
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
This was her then:
This is literally how she looks in 2017.
She’s literally not even old.
This is you’re legacy. Own it. Learn from it. Grow from it. But stop ignoring it. “My parents didn’t own slaves” No they just threatened the lives of my parents. So 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
“They threatened the lives of my parents.” Say it again bc my parents are in their 60s and still remember the white fuckery they had to deal with as kids.
this just in: the world outside of america doesn’t exist
this just in: if ur not american ur british
If you’re neither American nor British, there’s a good chance you don’t speak English either.
this just in: even though english is the first language of roughly 400 million people and second language of 1.6 billion people, if ur not american nor british there’s a good chance u don’t exist
Okay, so if you’re on the internet, you know about the “save martha” meme that people post all over the goddamn internet to make fun of the fact that batman had a PTSD attack triggered by just hearing his mom’s name in “Batman V Superman”.
It was in middle school. Some boys were laughing at me for some stupid reason and I had my anxiety attack. I yelled “why do you hate me so much!?” and started to cry before running to the bathroom and even throwing up. What’s worse is that for the rest of the school year and even a little into high school, they’d run by me in the halls and yell at me “why do you hate me so much?” and laugh because “LOL! Let’s see if we can make the crazy girl yell and cry again!” some of them even whispered it to me in class.
When I see Bruce on screen having an attack similar to mine and people making fun of that scene, I can’t help but be reminded. It wasn’t “cartoonish” that he was triggered by just his mom’s name or that he kept screaming “Why did you say that name!?” over and over again. That’s what a panic/PTSD attack looks like. This is no different than when someone uploaded that video of the old man yelling at that one woman while he was having a PTSD attack and everyone was laughing at him because “LOL! look at him yelling and freaking out!”.
It’s not funny. It’s mental illness and going through an attack is horrifying. It may seem funny to you but it sure as hell isn’t to the one having the attack or people who have had attacks similar.
If you didn’t like the movie, that’s fine, but Don’t make it an excuse to make an ableist joke.
You know you’re attached to someone when you’ve gotten so used to talking to them on a daily basis and they’ve become a part of your happiness. But when you guys don’t talk, it’s like a part of you is gone and you just start to miss them uncontrollably.
if i was a criminal i would do all my crimes on a scooter so the police would only see one footprint every few meters and theyd look for a one-legged man with powerful jumping muscles instead of me
I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
there’s this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then there’s this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where I’m about to go with this.
You’re condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality it’s always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: let’s check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why don’t you stop what you’re doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book that’s edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesn’t have a single page article called “list of countries with left-hand traffic”
Honestly he’s right, it seems to be joked about when a woman does some type of violence towards a man. I don’t condone that type of shit from a man or a woman.
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