Tracey DelaneyNov 21, 2022
The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
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
Show threadTracey DelaneyNov 21, 2022

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

Show threadRonak | ‘In Search of Starlight’ out now 💫Nov 21, 2022

@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

Show threadJane AyersNov 22, 2022
@ronak 1940, huge organized heavily-armed violent Nazi movements in the U.S. and documented Nazi collaborators in Congress working with German spies. If interested, check out an excellent podcast “Ultra with Rachel Maddow”. I had NO IDEA stuff like this EVER happened before now.
Show threadCameronNov 22, 2022
@janeayers @ronak there's a series I highly recommend purchasing a PBS subscription for by Ken Burns called The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Show threadJane Ayers
@cameronflynn I started watching it last night - thanks again. If you’re a podcast listener, “Ultra with Rachel Maddow” is an excellent, entertaining historical series about Americans, including 24 members of Congress, working directly with agents of Hitler’s government around 1940.
Nov 23, 2022 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadCameronNov 23, 2022
@janeayers followed, thank you! About to hit the road too-- good timing 🙂