Let me introduce you to Virgil Lamar Ware. He was an eighth-grader, an A student who loved to play football.
Virgil had a bright future. He dreamed of becoming a lawyer.
All those hopes and dreams ended on September 15, 1963. The day he was gunned down in the aftermath of the Birmingham church bombing.
Virgil and his brother were returning home, totally unaware that the bombing had occurred.
They encountered Larry Joe Sims and Michael Lee Farley, two sixteen-year-olds coming from a segregationist rally.
When the white teens saw the Ware brothers, Farley told Sims to shoot, to “scare them.” Sims shot Virgil twice, once in the cheek and once in the chest.
The 13-year-old died on the Docena-Sandusky Road on the outskirts of Birmingham.
Young Virgil was buried on the side of the road up until 2004 when he was moved to a plot with a marker thanks to donations.
DeSantis and the likes want to hide this history. History is history.
DeSantis cites “white discomfort” I experience discomfort knowing that DeSantis and the likes don’t want Black history taught.
Black children were casualties of racism. It’s a fact. Children deserve to know and learn from it. #FreshResists #BlackHistoryWithLana
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Governor Abbott, if you have any decency, you will immediately withdraw from this weekend’s NRA convention and urge them to hold it anywhere but Texas.