Those Damn Onions

[ItsjustMe]

Ronald McNair



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair

[wryter2000]

1. Wow

Wonderful. A glimmer of hope.

[Bayard]

2. Make good trouble

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Great point.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. I've been there. There's a lovely garden with a memorial, roses and sculptures there for him.❤ nt

[regnaD kciN]

4. Does it mention that they didn't allow him to use that very library as a child...?

If not, however "lovely," it's still a whitewashing job.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Oh yes. No white washing there.❤ nt

[Tanuki]

5. John Lewis had a similar experience, decades before he received

a National Book Award.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/17/rep-john-lewis-national-book-awards-refused-entry-to-library-because-black

"Civil-rights campaigner and congressman John Lewis was in tears as he accepted America’s National Book award for young people’s literature in Manhattan on Wednesday night, speaking of how as a child he had been turned away from the public library for being black.

Lewis won the prestigious US honour for the third volume of his graphic memoir March, which tells of his vital part in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. “This is unreal. This is unbelievable,” said Lewis as he took to the stage with his visibly moved co-authors Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.

Recounting how he grew up “very, very poor” in rural Alabama, Lewis said there were “very few books in our home”, recalling a trip in 1956 to try and borrow some books from the library.

“I had a wonderful teacher in elementary school who told me: ‘Read, my child, read’, and I tried to read everything. I love books,” said Lewis. “When I was 16 years old, some of my brothers and sisters and cousins [were] going down to the public library trying to get public library cards, and we were told the library was for whites only, not for coloureds. To come here and receive this award this honour is too much. Thank you.”...(more)

[calimary]

14. SWEET!

I'm glad he lived to see some of these honors handed to him personally, rather than posthumously.

I hope they rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after him, too.

[Oppaloopa]

26. Chris Rock said th other day his mother could not go to a dentist. She had to go to a veterinarian

to get her teeth pulled.

[yardwork]

7. The arc of justice.

[Kind of Blue]

8. Thanks for posting. Years ago, McNair's brother narrated his PBS StoryCorps.

It's delightful, adorable and I was pleasantly surprised by the police officers.

[Devilsun]

11. I'm not crying you are crying 😥😥😥

[Kind of Blue]

21. Daggone onions, you got me! Great remembrance, Devilsun.

[Lifelong Protester]

24. Thanks for posting that

I saw that before and this post made me think about Story Corps This is good and had me crying

[Kind of Blue]

30. Yes, indeed. There are not many StoryCorps I readily recall but

that one always pops up in my mind when I remember McNair.

[niyad]

9. JThank you so much or posting this.

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. I already knew that story, but it hits me hard, just the same.

What a special person!

[central scrutinizer]

12. There's also an educational program named for him

https://www2.ed.gov/programs/triomcnair/index.html

[StClone]

13. Jack Trice Story

https://theundefeated.com/features/jack-trice-life-and-football-career-were-tragically-cut-short/

Jack Trice Stadium only Division I University Stadium named for a Black Student Athlete.

[catrose]

15. Reminds me of that scene in Hidden Figures where Dorothy wants to check out a computer book.

[cannabis_flower]

17. Onions?

I don’t get it.

[ItsjustMe]

19. A popular term often used on social media

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=damn%20onions

[panader0]

20. Onions cause tears.

[panader0]

18. Recommended

[Cha]

22. Well said..

[DENVERPOPS]

23. AWESOME plus 1 million...... NC

[greenjar_01]

25. Also a brilliant musician

[VWolf]

27. I met him while in High School

I was an impressionable science/math geek. What a brilliant man. This was 1982, I believe.

While I could never measure up to such a great man, we did have some things in common: MIT and Taekwondo

I died a little with the Challenger disaster.

[usaf-vet]

28. Wonderful Story. My hope is that nothing in the future gets name to honor 45. Can't speak his name.

[Delphinus]

29. So happy

to see this. Thank you.