Confronting the Truth on U.S. Racism

At age six, Ruby Bridges (see photo below) became the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

The meme here is, of course, a reference to whites’ objections to our schools’ teaching kids that our country actually does have a racist past, present, and future.

FWIW, I side with Aldous Huxley, who said, “Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored.”

FILE – U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo. On Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, 54 years later to the day when she first walked up the steps to the school, Bridges is scheduled to commemorate the event with the unveiling of a statue in her likeness on the campus. (AP Photo/File)