Posted on 02/09/2020 10:13:13 AM PST by weston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=Rr3xjqUO-R4&feature=emb_logo
A Holocaust-themed parade in Spain featuring dancing Nazis and concentration camp prisoners stoked outrage from the Israeli government and Auschwitz museum.
In my county, first patient was in late Jan. The virus never spread in our area.
Just watched President Trump at African American History Month Reception in the White House.
He honored Gertrude Jane Holliday Stone who is almost 90 years old.
Back in ‘55 she refused to give up her seat on a train.
HOUSTON - Chances are you’ve heard of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus, but did you ever hear about what a Houston woman did right after that?
In 1955 no one was Tweeting or posting to Facebook so news did not travel quickly. When 21-year-old Houstonian GertrudeJane Holliday Stone refused to give up her seat on a train, she didn’t know Parks had just done the same on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
“I had no idea it would turn into a train ride from H-E-L-L,” explains Stone. It was December 1955. Stone was a Senior at Fisk University. She took a seat on a train in Nashville, TN heading home to Houston for the holidays.
“I had a friend with me and we were just happily talking.” Then the train conductor came over. “He said you have to move, you have to move to the Jim Crow coach in the back of the train.”
But the girls remained seated on the segregated train. “How long is this going to keep going on that one race is just treating another one badly? How much longer?” Stone says she asked herself.
An article written in the newspaper in 1956 explains how train employees hollered and demanded the girls get up but the students stayed. The train was even stopped so a police officer could board and make them move. Then Mrs. Stone’s friend was threatened. Her dad who worked for the railroad would be fired unless she got up.
“She said I’m going to have to move because my dad cannot lose his job over this and I told her I understood”.
Stone kept her seat even as the men took all of her belongings. As the college student sat alone with several men taunting her she says she thought about the times she moved when an officer ordered her to give up her parking space, and she thought about the brutal beating death of 14-year-old Emmett Till earlier in the year.
”You get to a point where you say enough is enough. If not me then who? If not now, then when?”.
The now 82-year-old says she kept her seat because in her words God was by her side. ”Oh I know He was. I know He was”.
Stone went on to become the first black salesperson at Pomeroy’s department store. ”I sold perfume. I sold jewelry.”
She was the first black to chair the Houston Public Library Board, appointed by Mayor Fred Hofheinz and she owns Houston’s National African American Museum.
As you now blaze your trail, this long time leader hopes you’ll do one thing, something to make this world better.
”In the words of Horace Mann, ‘Refuse to die until you’ve done something for humanity’ and there’s still a lot to do.”
To find out more about Mrs. Stone visit www.thenationalafricanamericanmuseum.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=hMf9e08o-q4&feature=emb_logo
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President @realDonaldTrump meeting and then praying with @RealCandaceO @DiamondandSilk @w_terrence @PastorDScott @DavidJHarrisJr @JaRonSmith45 @PARISDENNARD & others in the WH Cabinet Room
CROWD GOES WILD: Trump STUNNING Speech at African American History Month Reception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=lOMgaM7PVmA&feature=emb_logo
Thanks NIKK.
Last paragraph...What in hell is an “adult kid”???? Time to re-educate the educators. Idiots!
Cheers!!!
Cute but that would scare me to death how far it can leap! ha!
Cute but that would scare me to death how far it can leap! ha!
Thanks, Gran.
What a beautiful story, of a lovely person. Will have to look into her museum.
Thanks for the update! I forgot also!
WooHOO!
Gertrude sure is a spunky little lady who could barely see over the podium.
And she sure likes the President.
OMG. I just watched that little game thing on Tucker, with Jesse Waters and Pete Hegseth. NEITHER of them knew the capital city of Canada. Pete guessed Vancouver and was wrong so Jesse won. Then Tucker gave them Ottawa, and pronounced it A-TA-wa. I thought Tucker was being funny, but he wasn’t.
Saw it too.
All I can say is PATHETIC!!!
How is the recovery coming?
Good night all!!
I think I mispronounced it, years ago, and....my youngest corrected me 😊
At least I wasn't on national tv!
Love these pix. Thank you
I missed breakfast! Woe is me. Looked so good, too.
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