
Ruby Bridges is still alive. Her mom, Lucille Bridges, only just died in 2020. Can you imagine being the mother of a grade schooler sending her to class with military police and national guard to protect her from the violent and threatening crowd as she entered her empty classroom… Now imagine being that little girl subjected to those threats and thrown items, and being alive to see this shit TODAY. That’s Ruby Bridges. She’s younger than the president.
i never said that. i said that people who assume no one older in their families could have possibly been racist, when i have a grandmother who is not decrepit who fully remembers and grew up in the segregationist south is naive af, because there are ppls grandparents who were also there at that time. so if you dont know explicitly that they WERENT involved, its not unreasonable to question if they were…reading is fundamental 😘
funny enough, if youve ever heard of the little rock 9, thats my moms alma mater. 20ish years after it happened but. that happened in 1957 and my grandma lived in arkansas all her life. she would’ve been 9 at the time. like ppl dont think some of the children that were students or the kids of parents who were there screaming at black children for integrating the school are still alive??? like look at the photos? there were kids in that crowd lmao u thought they just vanished???
Yep. I was lucky enough that my mom made it out of that Parish, I grew up in a relatively decent part of the State. That part of the family lives on the border between the “Cajun” area and the more WASPY, racist side of the state. The only worse parts of Louisiana are the areas filled with the factories that cause the really bad cancer rates.
I learned one of the towns we’d pass through every trip there was a Sundown town in college. Like, it was one of those towns that had a documented “whites only after sundown” signs. Taken down well before I was born but from everything I’ve heard and read shit really hasn’t changed there