When Ruby Bridges walked into school, 500 students walked out

[Drett]

HER hair neatly tied back and her white socks folded over above clean black shoes, Ruby Bridges looked anything but a revolutionary. But that's exactly what she became.
At just six-years-old Bridges became the first black child to attend the white only William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans.


She arrived at school on November 14, 1960 and was escorted into the school by Federal marshalls, as angry parents and citizens screamed abuse outside.


After she was escorted inside, hordes of parents rushed in to remove their children. More than 500 children were taken out of school that day.

When Ruby Bridges walked into school, 500 students walked out | News.com.au

Unfortunately feeble minded people remain amongst us to this day. Just the target of their ignorance changes.

 

[SonInMe]

Yeah I know...liberals, but what ya gonna do about them?

 

[Nautilus]

Yeah I know...liberals, but what ya gonna do about them?

herp derp youre funny. i guess we should all be tea-partiers and sitting by the throne of the koch brothers and their harlots palin and bachman?

 

[Drett]

Yeah I know...liberals, but what ya gonna do about them?

What am I gonna do ? Probably hope that whoever the thread applies to don't end up pointing the finger at others.

 

[lil_christian]

HER hair neatly tied back and her white socks folded over above clean black shoes, Ruby Bridges looked anything but a revolutionary. But that's exactly what she became.
At just six-years-old Bridges became the first black child to attend the white only William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans.


She arrived at school on November 14, 1960 and was escorted into the school by Federal marshalls, as angry parents and citizens screamed abuse outside.


After she was escorted inside, hordes of parents rushed in to remove their children. More than 500 children were taken out of school that day.

When Ruby Bridges walked into school, 500 students walked out | News.com.au

Unfortunately feeble minded people remain amongst us to this day. Just the target of their ignorance changes.

There's a difference between not supporting the actions of someone and just being all-out hateful towards a certain race of people (though there is still racism around, and it makes me sad).




Are the so-called feeble-minded the people that actually think for themselves?

They aren't badgered into a political party like most kids are raised that way. Not only do they do that, they sugarcoat it, and make them think they thought and decided for themselves.

 

[maxwel]

Drett,

Your opening post seems to be making the assertion that anyone who doesn't agree with your particular political views is a racist.

That's a very odd thing to say.
And I know you aren't actually "saying" it...you're just "implying" it, so that it's easy to deny it during any kind of confrontation.

Drett,
I honestly don't know what your political views are, and I really don't care.
Seriously.
I have no interest in politics.
But opening a political or ethical discussion by immediately positioning the other side as racists...
that's just a really poor, and manipulative, debate tactic.

You're a smart guy.
I'm sure you can make your points in a more rational way.

 

[DorothyG]

All humanity came from two people: Adam and Eve.

One race: the human race.
"From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries." (Acts 17:26 NLT)

Skin color is simply a shade of the same pigment called melanin. It all depends on how much is in your body.

This same pigment, melanin, also determines the color of your hair.

Melanin has nothing to do with one's character.

"But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Don't judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.'" (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT)

Check out Ken Ham's book The Lie: Evolution
The Lie: Evolution - Answers in Genesis



Chapter 8 touches on the subject of racism.

 

[Drett]

Drett,

Your opening post seems to be making the assertion that anyone who doesn't agree with your particular political views is a racist.

That's a very odd thing to say.
And I know you aren't actually "saying" it...you're just "implying" it, so that it's easy to deny it during any kind of confrontation.

Drett,
I honestly don't know what your political views are, and I really don't care.
Seriously.
I have no interest in politics.
But opening a political or ethical discussion by immediately positioning the other side as racists...
that's just a really poor, and manipulative, debate tactic.

You're a smart guy.
I'm sure you can make your points in a more rational way.

Hi Maxwell

My post concerns people who hate others for being different. Many of these people are victims of the stereotype applied to them. It was a serve to the racists and bigots of the world. I take your point, I was a bit vague.

 

[SonInMe]

I was born in 1960. There is more publicly accepted racism today than in any other time in my lifetime...it takes two forms.

Political correctness.

As the thread I started on the revelations coming from the Zimmerman trial has shown, black on white racism is at an all time high.

The institutionalized racism of Jim Crow is long past mostly destroyed by the republican supported Civil Rights bill of 1964.

Thing is, liberalism as a political entity cannot exist without racial hatreds.

This thread is another example of such propaganda/inability to forgive.