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usonian

(26,934 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:13 AM 2 hrs ago

Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles. (Repost from 2024)

And our task seems even harder, countering a media/bot army of lies and liars, and fascists.

Reposting with a new action message at the end.

John Lewis led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and the crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge, known as "Bloody Sunday," as state troopers brutally attacked marchers. Lewis suffered a fractured skull, and the events influenced the passing of the Voting Rights Act, which Lewis remained a staunch supporter of until his last days.

Did he worry what "pundits" thought?

Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss

Giuliani’s lies in support of former President Donald Trump’s bogus stolen-election claims subjected them to a torrent of racist and violent threats and turned their lives upside down.

Did they buckle under harrassment?

Ruby Bridges became the first Black student at age 6 to integrate William Franz Elementary School—a white public school in New Orleans—in November 1960.

Angry onlookers jeered at Bridges as she walked by

She showed more courage than most adults in our time.

Rosa Parks

In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for white customers.

And just one more.

Reverend Martin Luther King

"There is nothing greater in all the world than freedom. It's worth going to jail for. It's worth losing a job for. It's worth dying for. My friends, go out this evening determined to achieve this freedom which God wants for all of His children." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles. (Repost from 2024) (Original Post) usonian 2 hrs ago OP

Every time I see that nasty crowd of white people taunting Ruby Bridges, I think I see Virginia Foxx in there Walleye 2 hrs ago #1

my mother in law was in that crowd rampartd 2 hrs ago #2

Wow. I remember when our school desegregated,, we had separate systems here in Delaware. Walleye 1 hr ago #5

I am so sorry Laurelin 2 hrs ago #3

Same reason as always, divide and conquer. usonian 1 hr ago #4

Walleye

(45,719 posts)

1. Every time I see that nasty crowd of white people taunting Ruby Bridges, I think I see Virginia Foxx in there

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:17 AM

2 hrs ago

rampartd

(5,395 posts)

2. my mother in law was in that crowd

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:29 AM

2 hrs ago

removing my years later wife from newly "mixed" franz elementary.

Walleye

(45,719 posts)

5. Wow. I remember when our school desegregated,, we had separate systems here in Delaware.

Reply to rampartd (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:40 AM

1 hr ago

Laurelin

(984 posts)

3. I am so sorry

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:35 AM

2 hrs ago

That people with my shade of pale can be so stupid, evil, and wrong.
I take some comfort that my father's father, though born and raised in South Carolina with generations of confederacy behind him, had a cross burned in his yard for preaching against the Klan.
And my mom was first generation American, descendant of sweet, kind, gentle vikings.
Heredity is something else. Why are we still stupid enough to care about skin color or sexual preferences?

usonian

(26,934 posts)

4. Same reason as always, divide and conquer.

Reply to Laurelin (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 10:56 AM

1 hr ago

We are one people, one world, and divisions are created to divide and conquer.

In one pic:

And they left out skin color.

Why are we still stupid enough to care about skin color or sexual preferences?

Really strong people see the humanity/divinity in others and lift them up without distinction.

Weak people project their weaknesses, fears and failures onto others, and try to cut them down.

"Projection" works both ways.

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