Posted on Jan 18, 2021
Ruby Bridges Honors The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The timeless message of the “I Have A Dream” speech holds even more resonance on this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as the U.S. is confronted with the massive inequality that still exists in our country.
These inequities are laid bare by the police killings of Black people, the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color, and the differences in treatment of far-right extremists at the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
As a first-grader in 1960, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans. The U.S. is doomed to repeat history if the nation doesn’t learn from its past, she says.
These inequities are laid bare by the police killings of Black people, the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color, and the differences in treatment of far-right extremists at the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
As a first-grader in 1960, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans. The U.S. is doomed to repeat history if the nation doesn’t learn from its past, she says.
Ruby Bridges Honors The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.
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As I have said numerous times on RP and especially here lately...MLK was a giant...he believed in peace, equality, and unity...his dreams are realized but the violence that is happening...the looting, robbing, murdering for protests...I would imagine the ground above his funeral site is shaking from him rolling over...he was a man of peace so much that when his own house got bombed and violence was brewing in his own yard, he calmly walked out and told everyone to go home...that meeting violence with violence would only hurt the cause...amens fell across the crowd and they went home...what is happening today protests all good...violent protests all bad and I believe he would see it that way too...we all need to model ourselves after his walk and his way of peace...we would all be a lot better if we did! IMHO.
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