In praise of Barbara Johns - A great American

[Tommy Tainant]

Barbara Johns: The US' forgotten civil rights hero

More than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol.

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More than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol.

This is a remarkable story that deserves more prominence. To take on systematic racism at the age of 16 shows remarkable courage and maturity. She deserves her place in Washington and I hope it inspires the children who see it.

She paid the price as she recieved death threats and the family home was burned down.
The state was spending $1700 aa year on white kids but only $300 on black kids. Proof of how institutional racism has held back black people.

I wonder if this is taught in CRT ?

 

[jbrownson0831]

Barbara Johns: The US' forgotten civil rights hero

More than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol.

www.bbc.com

More than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol.

This is a remarkable story that deserves more prominence. To take on systematic racism at the age of 16 shows remarkable courage and maturity. She deserves her place in Washington and I hope it inspires the children who see it.

She paid the price as she recieved death threats and the family home was burned down.
The state was spending $1700 aa year on white kids but only $300 on black kids. Proof of how institutional racism has held back black people.

I wonder if this is taught in CRT ?

Baloney

 

[whitehall]

It only took democrats 70 years to destroy the black family with drugs and abortion.

 

[Mac-7]

Robert E Lee was a fine man and a gracious southern gentleman

If you dont believe me just ask his peers of that time who knew him best

Its sad that 150 years after the Civil War ended, and 65 years after segregation, libs are still bitter and looking for a fight

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Robert E Lee was a fine man and a gracious southern gentleman

If you dont believe me just ask his peers of that time who knew him best

Its sad that 150 years after the Civil War ended, and 65 years after segregation, libs are still bitter and looking for a fight

Dont you think she deserves recognition ? She made peoples lives better.

 

[Mac-7]

Dont you think she deserves recognition ? She made peoples lives better.

Sure, but not at the expense of other historical figures

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Sure, but not at the expense of other historical figures

Lee just killed Americans. Why celebrate that ?

 

[jbrownson0831]

Lee just killed Americans. Why celebrate that ?

K...o...o...k

 

[Mac-7]

Lee just killed Americans. Why celebrate that ?

I wont quibble with clueless foreigners over questions that are none of your business

This is a domestic matter that does not concern you

 

[DudleySmith]

Dont you think she deserves recognition ? She made peoples lives better.

lol and you had less than zero to do with it.

 

[DudleySmith]

Lee just killed Americans. Why celebrate that ?

Your Hero Lincoln did the killing, and he did so exclusively for his corporate backers. Railroad lawyers were never noted for their concern for their fellow man, especially the working class animals.

 

[DudleySmith]

Robert E Lee was a fine man and a gracious southern gentleman

If you dont believe me just ask his peers of that time who knew him best

Its sad that 150 years after the Civil War ended, and 65 years after segregation, libs are still bitter and looking for a fight

They can see the results of their horrible failures any time of day and night. They hope to censor anybody who keeps pointing them out.

 

[Mac-7]

Your Hero Lincoln did the killing, and he did so exclusively for his corporate backers. Railroad lawyers were never noted for their concern for their fellow man, especially the working class animals.

I am as respectful of Lincoln as I am of Lee

If Abe had lived the postwar history of Reconstruction would be much different

And far better

 

[DudleySmith]

I am as respectful of Lincoln as I am of Lee

If Abe had lived the postwar history of Reconstruction would be much different

And far better

Yes. that is one of the ironies of the war; he wanted to build the southern economy back up so he could tax it, and assassinating him ended that plan and the radicals too over Reconstruction. He went to war over his tariffs, not slavery, and without the cotton economy up and running he had a much smaller tax base. He was going to be very lenient on southerners.


"But what am I to do in the meantime with those men at Montgomery [meaning the Confederate constitutional convention]? Am I to let them go on... [a]nd open Charleston, etc., as ports of entry, with their ten-percent tariff. What, then, would become of my tariff?" ~ Lincoln to Colonel John B. Baldwin, deputized by the Virginian Commissioners to determine whether Lincoln would use force, April 4, 1861.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Yes. that is one of the ironies of the war; he wanted to build the southern economy back up so he could tax it, and assassinating him ended that plan and the radicals too over Reconstruction. He went to war over his tariffs, not slavery, and without the cotton economy up and running he had a much smaller tax base. He was going to be very lenient on southerners.


"But what am I to do in the meantime with those men at Montgomery [meaning the Confederate constitutional convention]? Am I to let them go on... [a]nd open Charleston, etc., as ports of entry, with their ten-percent tariff. What, then, would become of my tariff?" ~ Lincoln to Colonel John B. Baldwin, deputized by the Virginian Commissioners to determine whether Lincoln would use force, April 4, 1861.

Cant you celebrate the life of Barbara Johns ?

 

[DudleySmith]

Cant you celebrate the life of Barbara Johns ?

Why? Because you just now heard of her, probably entirely by accident? lol stick to cross dressing your GI Joe dolls.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Why? Because you just now heard of her, probably entirely by accident? lol stick to cross dressing your GI Joe dolls.

She was a remarkablw young woman. Your sick racism doesnt let you see that.

 

[DudleySmith]

She was a remarkablw young woman. Your sick racism doesnt let you see that.

Projection. Your own racism is blatantly obvious. Go sew some dresses for your trip to Heathrow.

 

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

It only took democrats 70 years to destroy the black family with drugs and abortion.

Don’t forget social welfare, HUD, and food stamps. Government is your parent, after all, from cradle to grave.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Projection. Your own racism is blatantly obvious. Go sew some dresses for your trip to Heathrow.

And yet I celebrate Barbara Johns. You dont klanboi.