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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:30:19 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

She sure would have been.
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1. A tweet from user Stacy (@stacycay) features a historical black-and-white photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, walking alone while being harassed by a white mob during the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The image prominently shows a white woman angrily yelling behind Eckford.
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  George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 02:53:24 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
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  @ChemicalEyeGuy @jens You make a good point.
  
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  Preston MacDougall (chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 02:53:26 JST Preston MacDougall
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  @jens Public shaming does work, however, as shown by Hazel Bryan's '#evolution ' after she was photographed exuding hate for her fellow #American citizens based on the color of their skin.
  "All hate begins as self-hate." - Dalai Lama
  #Resist
  
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  Jens Ljungkvist (jens@toots.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 02:53:29 JST Jens Ljungkvist
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  This is a photo of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock nine and Hazel Bryan shouting racial slurs at her.
  She did change her stance on integration and did work to improve. There was a reconciliation attempt but it didn’t seem to have worked.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Massery
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    Hazel Massery
    
    Hazel Bryan Massery (born January 31, 1942: 45 ) is an American woman originally known for protesting integration. She was depicted in an iconic photograph taken by photojournalist Will Counts in 1957 showing her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the Little Rock Crisis.: 60–62 Little Rock High School On September 9, 1957, nine African-American students entered Little Rock Central High School as the school's first black students, including Elizabeth Eckford. On her way to the school, a group of white teenage girls followed Eckford, chanting "Two, four, six, eight! We don't want to integrate!" One of these girls was Hazel Bryan. Benjamin Fine of The New York Times later described her as "screaming, just hysterical, just like one of these Elvis Presley hysterical deals, where these kids are fainting with hysteria." Bryan also shouted, "Go home, nigger! Go back to Africa!" After the photo became public, Hazel...

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