Black History Month is here, although it has been scrubbed from White House web sites and mercilessly blamed for white kids feeling sad. Which is truly too damn bad. There is no American history without Black history. History is a record of happy and horrific events. Black people are intrinsic to American history – regardless of the hate fueled MAGA scrubbing to eliminate and rewrite history, in a vain attempt to soothe their fragile feelings and false foundation of superior being.
A person and event in history that all Americans need to be aware of is the story of a little Black girl named Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all white school in Louisiana. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, changed segregation laws in America. Ruby Bridges was a first grader walking into her new school with US Marshalls…greeted by an empty classroom and one incredible teacher.
