Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles. (Repost from 2024)

[usonian]

And our task seems even harder, countering a media/bot army of lies and liars, and fascists.

Reposting with a new action message at the end.



John Lewis led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and the crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge, known as "Bloody Sunday," as state troopers brutally attacked marchers. Lewis suffered a fractured skull, and the events influenced the passing of the Voting Rights Act, which Lewis remained a staunch supporter of until his last days.

Did he worry what "pundits" thought?

Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss



Giuliani’s lies in support of former President Donald Trump’s bogus stolen-election claims subjected them to a torrent of racist and violent threats and turned their lives upside down.

Did they buckle under harrassment?

Ruby Bridges became the first Black student at age 6 to integrate William Franz Elementary School—a white public school in New Orleans—in November 1960.



Angry onlookers jeered at Bridges as she walked by



She showed more courage than most adults in our time.

Rosa Parks

In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat for white customers.





And just one more.

Reverend Martin Luther King

"There is nothing greater in all the world than freedom. It's worth going to jail for. It's worth losing a job for. It's worth dying for. My friends, go out this evening determined to achieve this freedom which God wants for all of His children." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://democraticunderground.com/10113622

[Walleye]

1. Every time I see that nasty crowd of white people taunting Ruby Bridges, I think I see Virginia Foxx in there

[rampartd]

2. my mother in law was in that crowd

removing my years later wife from newly "mixed" franz elementary.

[Walleye]

5. Wow. I remember when our school desegregated,, we had separate systems here in Delaware.

[rampartd]

6. i was young and in catholic school

my wife was younger, and many people moved from the parish rather than segregate. they are still out there, voting for scalise and trump.

[Walleye]

7. We kind of forget those vicious racists from the 60s are still with us. One of them is president.

They didn’t grow out of their prejudice

[Laurelin]

3. I am so sorry

That people with my shade of pale can be so stupid, evil, and wrong.
I take some comfort that my father's father, though born and raised in South Carolina with generations of confederacy behind him, had a cross burned in his yard for preaching against the Klan.
And my mom was first generation American, descendant of sweet, kind, gentle vikings.
Heredity is something else. Why are we still stupid enough to care about skin color or sexual preferences?

[usonian]

4. Same reason as always, divide and conquer.

We are one people, one world, and divisions are created to divide and conquer.

In one pic:



And they left out skin color.

Why are we still stupid enough to care about skin color or sexual preferences?

Really strong people see the humanity/divinity in others and lift them up without distinction.

Weak people project their weaknesses, fears and failures onto others, and try to cut them down.

"Projection" works both ways.