Y'all, even Ruby Bridges is Critical Race Theory now

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://proudblacksoutherner1972.substack.com/p/yall-even-ruby-bridges-is-critical



Just wanted to say this quickly, about how absurd things have gotten.

Now a book about and by Ruby Bridges is considered too dangerous for young white minds to have to grapple with. Yes, that Ruby Bridges, the little black girl with the pigtails who became one of the brave faces of integration.

Why? Well, I’ll let the Tennessean tell you:

One of the books she specifically referred to was "Ruby Bridges Goes to School," written by Ruby Bridges herself. Bridges, when she was age 6, was one of the first African American students to integrate New Orleans' all-white public school system.

Steenman said that the mention of a "large crowd of angry white people who didn't want Black children in a white school" too harshly delineated between Black and white people, and that the book didn't offer "redemption" at its end.

The full article is here: Here’s what to know about the debate over ‘Wit & Wisdom’ curriculum in Williamson schools

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2021/06/11/wit-wisdom-curriculum-williamson-county-schools-critical-race-theory-criticism/5192703001/

[dawg day]

1. Who needed "redemption?"

The white people throwing things at a little girl?

Well, they can get that by reading about their actions and apologizing.

[Walleye]

2. Do they think film hadn't been invented yet. There was a large crowd, they were ugly. History

Not ancient history. Many of those racists in that crowd are still alive. And many of them are still racists Raising their children to be just as hateful as they are

[uponit7771]

3. GQP will no doubt try to make Dems run from CRT next year

[tulipsandroses]

4. The harsh reality of what it was really like

Is not even being taught. That’s as much as kids learn. At least in first grade. During virtual school during this pandemic, my first grader niece had a lesson on Ruby Bridges. The passage above was basically it, and Ruby sat in a class by herself. There was no further discussion. My niece asked me why they were being mean to Ruby. She has not been exposed to the cruelty of racism. Missed opportunity to have a meaningful discussion, even with first graders. Now you have these idiots trying to ban even the little that is taught

[Deuxcents]

5. TY for this

I’m off to get her book tomorrow..been on my list but.. time you know..

[Solly Mack]

6. And they lived happily ever after. Steenman wants a fairy-tale history w/ white people as the heroes

Black people were slaves but then white people decided to free them. No beginning, no middle, and a happy ending with redemption for white people.

Short on the facts, but white people feel good about themselves.

Black people couldn't vote but then white people decided to allow them to vote. No beginning, no middle, and a happy ending with redemption for white people.

Short on the facts, but white people feel good about themselves.


Ruby Bridges encountered a "large crowd of angry white people who didn't want Black children in a white school" - in her own words about her own experience.

But she didn't tell the part about the white people riding in on a white horse to save her?

Then how can it possibly be a good thing for white people?

Mustn't tell that story. Little Suzie Q Whitegirl and Junior T Whiteboy might have to deal with the ugly facts of racism.

Can't have that.

[PunkinPi]

9. All of this.

[Solly Mack]

14. Thank you, PunkinPi

[scarletlib]

11. Bam! You hit that nail on it's head.

Excellent.

[Solly Mack]

13. Thank you

I get the feeling they also fear their children discovering that their parent is a racist.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Let Winston Smith's colleague Syme explain:

[The head of the Williamson County chapter of Moms for Liberty, Robin Steenman] said she disapproves of guidance for teachers to teach words like "injustice," "unequal," "inequality," "protest," "marching" and "segregation" in grammar lessons.

You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words -- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone.
...
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
...
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html

[smirkymonkey]

8. Arghhhhhhhh!

I am so sick of these people! Just stop! Stop with your ignorance and hatred! I just want to scream!

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Warning - commie Politico mag content: religious right originated in school segregation

Politico is no doubt the kind of radical far-left organization that needs keeping away from impressionable children, or adults:

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The tale goes something like this: Evangelicals, who had been politically quiescent for decades, were so morally outraged by Roe that they resolved to organize in order to overturn it.
...
For many evangelical leaders, who had been following the issue since Green v. Connally, Bob Jones University was the final straw. As Elmer L. Rumminger, longtime administrator at Bob Jones University, told me in an interview, the IRS actions against his school “alerted the Christian school community about what could happen with government interference” in the affairs of evangelical institutions. “That was really the major issue that got us all involved.”

Weyrich saw that he had the beginnings of a conservative political movement, which is why, several years into President Jimmy Carter’s term, he and other leaders of the nascent religious right blamed the Democratic president for the IRS actions against segregated schools—even though the policy was mandated by Nixon, and Bob Jones University had lost its tax exemption a year and a day before Carter was inaugurated as president. Falwell, Weyrich and others were undeterred by the niceties of facts. In their determination to elect a conservative, they would do anything to deny a Democrat, even a fellow evangelical like Carter, another term in the White House.

But Falwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge. It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

[Corgigal]

12. People get paid well,

To research stupid white fear stories. They need to keep old silly people addicted.