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To: screaming eagle2

Reminds me of what one of the girls who desegregated Central High School(1957) said back in the 1990s.
She returned for a visit and gave a speech to the classes there. She then noticed all the black kids had their heads on the desk and were refusing to listen.

She then realized she had put her life on the line, so black kids could go to a white school, put their heads on the desk and refuse to learn.

Her actual words were...”I went through HELL for this?”


87 posted on 05/25/2015 6:30:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You know I think that Booker T Washington, Medgar Evers, and folks like them are rolling in their graves saying “what the hell sacrifice my life for”, and I do not blame them and as for that lady you spoke of, I feel sorry for her, she showed great courage only to find out the folks she fought for do not give a damn.


98 posted on 05/25/2015 11:44:53 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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