🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
“Not interfering with my shit???” Dude, what the fuck is your shit? You wouldn’t even have your shit were it not for folks who fought and died for you to even have equal rights in this fucking Country that Trump is working his ass off to march back!
Some of y’all are so lost in your own comeuppance that you think you did it all yourself! That’s a damn shame, because you’re exactly what they count on Black men becoming who gain any amount of success!
No worries though… There are definitely enough of us who are engaged, informed, and give a fuck… We won’t let the Sambos and apathetic amongst us dictate how this fight goes!
I’m going to need some basketball dudes to help me understand why Mitchell Robinson will miss time with a broken pinky. I broke my hand in training camp, had surgery, and had my whole hand in a cast and didn’t miss a game