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   Tracey Delaney (therealtraceydelaney@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:12:18 JST Tracey Delaney

   The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
   White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
   Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
   This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

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     Tracey Delaney (therealtraceydelaney@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 04:12:34 JST Tracey Delaney

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     We can never go backwards.

     Make America great again?
     When was that?
     When interracial marriage was illegal? When a little black girl couldn’t attend school with white kids?
     When a woman couldn’t get a credit card without her husband’s consent?

     We must go onwards together. /2

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     The Yarn Hobbit (yarnhobbit@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 14:49:31 JST The Yarn Hobbit

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     • Charles ☭ H
     • David Colquhoun

     @TheRealTraceyDelaney @david_colquhoun @celesteh I was talking to my mum about this the other day - she attended a small primary & grammar school in the late 50s in Somerset (UK) and discovered that while she thought the school was predominantly white, there was actually a 2nd class for PoC who had different playtime & were never seen.

     She was horrified as a child & it's haunted her knowing that it was allowed to happen.

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     Tracey Delaney (therealtraceydelaney@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 14:49:33 JST Tracey Delaney

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     • Charles ☭ H
     • David Colquhoun

     @david_colquhoun @celesteh First of all, I was born and raised in Ireland. Hi! Secondly segregation of white & black school children usually refers to USA or South Africa. Unless you want to be pedantic and refer to other types of segregation.
     So it’s moot to point out that this didn’t happen in Ireland or Italy because white & black school children were never segregated in these countries.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 14:49:34 JST Charles ☭ H

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     • David Colquhoun

     @david_colquhoun

     Hello, yes it's annoying when USians forget that other countries exist, but I feel like maybe there are better times to raise objects and worse times. This is not the post I would pick for it.

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     David Colquhoun (david_colquhoun@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 14:49:41 JST David Colquhoun

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     @TheRealTraceyDelaney
     "The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school" IN THE USA

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     Tracey Delaney (therealtraceydelaney@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 14:33:58 JST Tracey Delaney

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     There was only one teacher who was willing to teach Ruby even though she received abuse & death threats and that was BarbaraHenry.
     The right thing to do isn’t always the easiest thing to do.
     Do it anyway. /3