White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1
We can never go backwards.
Make America great again?
When was that?
When interracial marriage was illegal? When a little black girl couldn’t attend school with white kids?
When a woman couldn’t get a credit card without her husband’s consent?
We must go onwards together. /2
@TheRealTraceyDelaney Boy, if they taught real American history in highschool, half the population would become radicalised overnight.
Stuff like the Tulsa Massacre, the Trail of Tears, Operation Paperclip, Operation Condor, etc.
“The motto of this country ought to be, 'You give us a colour, we'll wipe it out.'” - George Carlin
@AngryArtist @TheRealTraceyDelaney Americans crashed an entire airplane to assassinate Homi Bhabha, father of the Indian nuclear program. Setting back India at least two decades (if not more), it is speculated.
Wernher von Braun, father of the American lunar program, was a Nazi scientist who helped make new kinds missiles and rockets for the Third Reich during World War II. He was smuggled into America via Operation Paperclip.
It is also an open (yet unspoken) secret that Japan was already gonna negotiate the terms of surrender towards the end of World War II and that the Americans only dropped the two bombs to send a message to the Soviets and to scare the world into aligning with them.
I don't even have to mention stuff like the My Lai massacre, right? 😭