Ruby Bridges is younger than tRump BTW We keep moving backwards at an alarming rate.
That’s the part that really messes with you—realizing this isn’t some distant, black-and-white history we learned in school. Ruby Bridges is still here. The child who needed federal protection just to go to school is living in the same lifetime as Donald Trump. That means everything we like to pretend is “the past” is actually still right under the surface.
So when things start to feel like they’re sliding backward, it’s not paranoia—it’s recognition. Progress didn’t erase those attitudes, it just pushed them quieter for a while. And now some of it feels louder again.
That’s what’s unsettling. Not just what’s happening—but how familiar it feels.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Supporting that anyway is what’s hard to watch. What’s disheartening isn’t just the rhetoric—it’s seeing people overlook it and still stand behind it.
Seeing your own people support their own demise is disheartening to say the least.