TRAVEL TO LA
AND MAYBE OUT THE BAY
FROM THE CHI TOWN
OR SHE MIGHT BE OUT THE STATES
BOOK A FLIGHT TO LONDON
BOOK A FLIGHT TO FRANCE
CAN WE GO TO SWITZERLAND?
CAN WE HIT JAPAN?
🚨 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.
“How do you know they were throwing shade and trying to read?”
Cause my professors taught me how to catch shady behaviors
“Who are your professors?”
Them: