#ruby bridges

[onlytiktoks]

[victusinveritas]

[motmloser]

When you talk about the civil rights movement and slavery don’t say somebody’s grandma went through it. The children of Ruby Bridge are still alive. The children of Peter Mills, the last slave, who died in 1972 because he was hit by a car, are still alive.

It was not that long ago because somebody’s parents lived through it.

[victusinveritas]

[itsmythang]

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.

[mikeandwillsweddingofficiant]

ruby bridges is younger than our sitting president btw

[that-one-kiddo-in-the-back]

Ruby Bridges having a Tiktok account is exactly why I kick old men in the nuts for telling me Jim crow was along time ago.

[protoslacker]

Robert Coles Speaks on Ruby Bridges

Colette

Warning the archival footage includes use of the word n_____.

Both Ruby Bridges and Robert Coles are still living.