This excellent cartoon is a play on the famous image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted by federal officers in 1960 to integrate the kindergarten at her local school in New Orleans. Ruby Bridges was all of five years old, but courageously walked with her head held high while “grown-ups” were screaming obscenities and throwing rocks. Ruby Bridges is still alive and has been a life-long champion for equal rights.
The people who screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges in New Orleans and the Arkansas Nine trying to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School don’t want their grandchildren to be taught that they screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges and the Arkansas Nine.
Hint: if studying history never makes you feel uncomfortable, what you are “studying” is not history.
Further to the south and east, and some 60+ years later, the ugly hatred surfaces again in Florida.
Florida state law (39.0016) requires that all children must have access to a free public education.
But there remain those like Ron DeSatan who want to violate their state laws mandating a free public education, to require educational malpractice in deliberately concealing, distorting and intentionally misrepresenting accurate historic facts that make them feel uncomfortable, as the teaching of accurate history should.
This excellent cartoon is a play on the famous image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted by federal officers in 1960 to integrate the kindergarten at her local school in New Orleans. Ruby Bridges was all of five years old, but courageously walked with her head held high while “grown-ups” were screaming obscenities and throwing rocks. Ruby Bridges is still alive and has been a life-long champion for equal rights.
The people who screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges in New Orleans and the Arkansas Nine trying to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School don’t want their grandchildren to be taught that they screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges and the Arkansas Nine.
Hint: if studying history never makes you feel uncomfortable, what you are “studying” is not history.
Further to the south and east, and some 60+ years later, the ugly hatred surfaces again in Florida.
Florida state law (39.0016) requires that all children must have access to a free public education.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=1000-1099/1003/1003.html
This is further spelled out in educational code of rules #6A-6.03028
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=6A-6.03028&Section=0
But there remain those like Ron DeSatan who want to violate their state laws mandating a free public education, to require educational malpractice in deliberately concealing, distorting and intentionally misrepresenting accurate historic facts that make them feel uncomfortable, as the teaching of accurate history should.