Ruby Bridges. The Bravest Girl In The World at that time. She walked through a gauntlet of White Hot HATRED and didn’t get burned. What she went through at 6 years old is still INEXCUSABLE. Ruby Bridges embodied grace in the face of unapologetic S A V A G E R Y.
"When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one."
—James Baldwin(1969)
Two little Black girls singing the Pledge of Allegiance at the podium.
Their father, Scott Colom, is about to take the stage as Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction.
In Mississippi. The state where Emmett Till and Medgar Evers were murdered.
“Liberty and Justice for all.”
America really does not understand how the politics of conservative Southern white Boomers was formed by the racial resentment of their Greatest Generation parents, who came home from World War II and got mad at the federal government was trying to integrate K-12 education.
SENATOR SCOTT COLOM (Mississippi)-D. In honor of all those who lost their lives in Freedom Summer. For Medgar Evers. For Fannie Lou Hammer. For our ancestors. There’s Blood on that Ballot Box.
Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:
On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
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If Texas fully legalizes cannabis, the entire industry is going to have a serious problem. We have the land, the agricultural infrastructure, the farmers, the growers, and the cultivators. On top of that, our climate gives us the potential for an almost year-round growing and harvesting cycle. People are seriously underestimating what Texas could bring to this industry