🚨 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.
Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.
You'll feel crazy.
Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.
Anger is a human emotion. All people express anger, including Black women. The problem is that some assume we are either always angry or that our anger is irrational, rather than a response to injustice
this shit really gets me heated because so many years were stolen from black men for a tiny baggie of this just so they can turn around and do scrooge mcduck jumps into mountains of bud
When I found out Mark wears $400 Egyptian cotton tee shirts, I knew that the distinction yall make about how people spend money is rooted in anti blackness
You know people don’t like to admit this but older cartoons they grew up with were woke and discussed social issues like this and were very on the nose about it
Let’s stop playing…
Ime Udoka — FIRED.
Mel Tucker — FIRED.
Sherrone Moore — FIRED.
But Mike Vrabel?
Handled differently… talk of “rehab,” not removal.
Same type of allegations. Different outcomes.
That’s not accountability — that’s selective enforcement.
Black coaches lose careers.
Others get second chances.
Call it what it is. 🎯