Also, #Colbert, it's not "her" movement, it's OURS.

​@@JoellePrettyI think he means she helped start the movement

The most privileged group crying and being a victim again... yawn

Yes she is!

​​@@lauralishes1 No group cries more than privileged white people. Heck you all are continously spreading the BS White Replacement Lies.

Absolutely. I teach high school, and one course is an English 12 that focusses on Indigenous story-telling. We deal extensively with colonization and the residential school system. Reconciliation isn't about blame and shame, and none of my students feel bad about themselves either. They are 100% behind the social justice aims of their learning, and it's a privilege to teach them.

@@TheCalicohorse kudos to both of you history is more than a timeline it's a witness to our knowledge and wisdom then and/vs now and then using that knowledge , all of it , forward always using and advancing ,building on the good rejecting the bad and mistakes but not forgetting so as not to repeat them

It blows my mind that this happened in recent history, like right around when the Beatles came out and I’m a big fan of that because of my dad. This happened in 1960 I was born in 1976 that’s 16 years between the two and it’s just mind blowing that people still have to fight for civil rights in a new century

When I was 7 I went to my dad and said that I had been thinking about slavery because we had been learning about it in school and it gave me a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. He chuckled and said, "that's called white guilt." We never talked about it again, that feeling passed and never really came back. Two things about that stand out to me: 1) I had just started learning about slavery, so I was almost as ignorant as I could've been at the time. I've learned a great deal about racism in America since then and it's possible that's the reason that feeling never came back. Maybe the solution to white guilt is education, not keeping children totally ignorant. 2) I don't feel I am worse off having felt that. Sometimes it hurts to acknowledge history. It hasn't led to lifelong race-based trauma in my life like the GOP seems to think it does. So maybe white kids will feel a little bad briefly, but I don't think that's a good enough reason to not teach white kids true history. My response whenever someone says something about how white kids' feelings need protecting is, "Math made me feel pretty bad, too. Guess what? I still had to take math."

@@Br0nto5aurusHey, as an African American, I appreciate your story and reading it from your point of view (as a white kid and the talk you had with your dad). And, just like you felt guilty for a while and had to learn how to navigate that feeling; as a Black kid, learning about slavery and the civil rights movement, I felt sad and angry, and I had to educate myself on things too. But, I wouldn’t be as patriotic and humbled to be an American had I not learned the turmoil and sacrifices those before me had gone through. Education includes emotional intelligence. Schools don’t teach that anymore. Nowadays, it’s all about testing, testing, testing and preparing preschoolers for Ivy Leagues. Sharing our experiences enhances us all. That’s what your story did to me.

Exactly. No one will be able to erase the facts about the history of state sanctioned racist aspects of the U .S. God bless Ruby Bridges and so many others who helped the U.S. get closer to actually being a more perfect union! # I’mnotNimrataHaley

Did you see all those racist white men smiling and helping the black kid go to school in the photo?

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving wannabe fascist.

💯

Obviously they couldn't have planned that, but the timing couldn't have been better if they could have: a politician who made a name for himself erasing inconvenient or "uncomfortable" history seeing his political fortunes crash and burn as someone who bore witness to, and was part of, that history came to speak her truth and share her story

This is why we need history!

Reparations and 40 Acres in the present

​@@c4tac133 Reparations and 40 Acres are needed more than Colonizer Controled history.

Love this!

Perfectly said

She’s the exact same age as my dad yet my father didn’t integrate until the 12th grade. My mom is 5 years younger and she didn’t integrate until 5th grade.

She is three years older than my favorite cousin.

@@heyheyhey40 They didnt integrate until my first year in school.

@@DarkNJuju such a shame that it took them so long to fully integrate and even still today, schools and communities are segregated.

@@heyheyhey40 Excuse me but schools are just as segregrated now as they were when I started going to school. Why are you under the impression things have changed?

I am sure Nikki Haley had seen the video of a six-year-old child confronting a mass of white racists, but she rejected that part of American history for a few votes.

The problem is that they are saying it's long ago or that they happened pre civil rights like that matter or changed

She was pandering to the conservative base who is extremely hostile to CRT.

How sick do you have to be to want your Oppressor to educate your children?

​@@HH-jg4juThey use these black and white pictures to make is seem so long ago (colored photos already existed) but how long ago is it really when this little girl is now a woman only in her late 60's and has an instagram....

This also struck me for a similar reason. People forget that so many people have lived through discrimination.

THANK YOU for teaching them about her!!

I guess you’re not in Florida. Thank you for the work you do.

Better not let any MAGA parents know about that!

thank you for teaching your students about her❤

I also have a copy of the Rockwell print. Mrs. Bridges is the picture of courage. So inspiring.

Racism is a stupid disease. What is the point? Why were they so threatened by a six year old child?

Exactly

Calming yet direct and powerful

That’s because white people were in the audience, by which her story stepped on some of those white audience members toes🥺

Or could it have been because they cared what she said? As an Australian, I hadn’t heard her story and it was amazing. ​@@concepcionmenzona-stewart4615

Amen! I’m Black, and I live in the Deep South. I repeated the 1st grade because I had fallen behind in my studies. My second go-around I got a different teacher with a white teacher’s assistant. She was a wealthy old lady that volunteered after the death of her husband. She noticed my delayed reading level. She was the first person to pull me aside to tell me I was smart. She did one-on-one reading activities with men in the back of the classroom. One time I was sitting in her lap, and I’d put my dark brown hands against her white hands, and for the first time I’d notice our differences. It was the first time my small brown hands were in the hands of a white person. She saw the bewildering look in my eyes. So, she asked me what was the matter (with a sly grin). I said, “Look!” She said, “Look at what?” With our hands pressed against one another, I said “You don’t see?” in a confused voice. She said, “See what?” By then I was getting frustrated because I guess (as a kid) I couldn’t properly explain what I was seeing and feeling. I didn’t have to because she already knew. She told me she didn’t see anything because she doesn’t see the difference between herself and I. She acknowledged that my small hands were brown and insisted that she was beige - not white - because she was aging and had been out in the sun a little 😊. But, she went on to say that God doesn’t see color: He only sees hearts. She said that if we both cut ourselves we’d bleed the same. She loved me. She favored me. She was like my second mother. I adored her deeply. As it turned out, I didn’t have a learning problem; and, as a matter of fact, I was pretty advanced. All I needed was an educator like her; moreover, she taught me emotional intelligence. Schools don’t teach that anymore. It’s all about preparing for end-of-the-year, state required, exams. Having teacher’s assistance in classrooms are becoming rarer these days. These topics can be taught with emotional intelligence. I was a kid once, and out of all people, a small town southern white woman taught me that I was different and special at the same time. If that can be taught here, it can be taught anywhere in America! 🇺🇸 Sorry for the long post. Seeing this just brought back memories.

@@shawnpreston1639 beautiful story... ♥

As a Black woman, I have often had the conversations around representation for little Black girls, and how being Black in school came with a lot of trauma. Many women who, on the outside, are beautiful and successful and put-together, but on the inside struggle with never feeling good enough. I have talked to friends who got into their 30s and realized they didn’t like themselves…their hair, their “Black” facial features (as if!), anything that made them Black. They talk about being told they were “less” either by the people around them, or the simple indifference of the world around them. Being ignored or targeted as a child is so very damaging, and we often don’t realize this until later. When I was in school, I was usually the only Black girl in my class. At one point, I was one of two Black girls in the entire third grade. I had a teacher who was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was an African woman named Mrs. Kline. She was the same color as me, but very tall, very elegant. I remember thinking she didn’t look like a teacher in any way. She was very sensitive to my position in that class, and only in hindsight do I realize how hard she worked to make sure I felt SEEN. When we worked on our languages (private school rocks), she would include words that would also be useful to a little Black girl like colors, the word ‘hair pick’…just an example. I remember seeing little Black kids in a book for the very first time in her class, because she took the time to find books that included EVERY type of kid (she even found books with wheelchair stories, Native American stories…in the 80’s!). After leaving her class, I rarely had experiences like I did with Mrs. Kline. Most classrooms in Arizona were pure ethnic deserts, seldom recognizing the existence of anyone who wasn’t white, or “white adjacent”. I learned to appreciate the moments like that one. As I got older, I learned to “cling” to my Black teachers, because they were often the only refuge we had in school. They understood the nuances and inconveniences of Blackness, and were there to help us navigate. In jr. high, our Black teachers taught us how to look out for EACH OTHER, and not just ourselves. When I got teased in class for wearing a dashiki, our history teacher took a moment to educate them about why they should shut the hell up. When our friends were unjustly suspended from school, they educated us on what it meant to stand up for our rights instead of just being angry and frustrated. Without those very special, understanding, patient, and wise educators in my life, I am not sure I would have made it through school. They taught me that I was SMARTER than most people would ever know, and that was my secret weapon. They taught me how to be a lady in the world who garnered respect. They taught me how to deal with not always getting my way. And they taught me how to cope in a world stuck on an 8” incline. People truly take for granted the impact these people have on our lives.❤

@@shawnpreston1639 this brought tears to my eyes ma'am! thanks for sharing. 🥰💝

FACTS!!!!!!

They should have Ruby 'ahem' Nikki when she doubles down on "America has never been a racist country".

Just what I have in mind!

Nicki Haley is soulless... she needs to drop out now.

She’ll make u an excuse about it any way.

Folk like Nikey and Desantis normally don’t or won’t learn true American history

It’s so much easier just to have Nikki Haley tell us it wasn’t really racism.

@@greenAbbot, exactly!! That picture is so heartbreaking. It’s shameful, yet we’re better…nowhere near perfect, but a little better.

Some people have managed to change or perhaps they were just never racist in the first place. But some people are incapable of change, God created one of us he created all of us

@@edwardroche2480 All are capable of change! It's a choice! When you know better you can choose to do better, educate yourself and make different choices for your family. Our you can cry "reverse racism " or ban books Smh!

Really? It makes me envy her.

The most privileged group crying and being a victim again... yawn

​@@lauralishes1 whos crying other than you?

​@@lauralishes1You just described tRump and MAGAQNUTS!😂😂😂😂

@@lauralishes1 WT actual F is wrong with you? You're coming across as such a frickin racist.

Floriduh banned the children's book about her life. Haven't we learned anything yet?

Ruby hit the home run. Stephen just provided the ballpark

What a shame we have been deluded to identify as black white brown… the only time i like to use color is when im describing how someone looks.

wow...the stories in this comment section are amazing.

🥹 that’s beautiful

Definitely! She made realize the most privileged group are crying and being a victim again... yawn

​@@lauralishes1 says the one crying in all the comments. Take your hypocrisy somewhere else and learn a few things before being so racist and hateful. Go home Nikki Haley, you're ignorant again.

@@lauralishes1Ahhh, we found our little victim here. You won’t be remembered. Womp womp.

​@@upcoming3341I hope she is referring to the monsters

​@upcoming3341 She's not a victim. She is a hero. Everyone doesn't have to remember. But hate is always remembered. The KKK, white supremacists, and predators will always keep hate alive.. 😮

I wonder if that book has been banned.

Did you see all those racist white men smiling and helping the black kid go to school in the photo?

Just an FYI, please search for the age appropriate book about her childhood for your grandchildren along with the new book she authored. The new book is a collection of letters from children concerned about the important issues of the world today. Thank you for taking this extra effort to spread understanding to your family. As Ruby said, we can't always rely on the powers that be to do what is right, but we can buy the books ourselves.

@@valdeniasimmons2935 Good to know, I haven’t looked it up yet. We raised our daughters with understanding of what hate there is in our country. We are telling grandchildren the same. I will search for a specific book about Ruby and her courage.

I love this for you!

She is a national treasure. Thank you Stephen Colbert.

Exactly!

THANK YOU.

I always wonder about people like you, the few courageous whites who were marching in the civil rights movement thanks to your service to the United States of America.

@@Sarbet888 Some of them were killed unfortunately! Some people are blinded by hate for no reason! I think a couple of college kids that were helping to get folks registered to vote during one of the freedom riders campaigns.

Yes (amongst others) you might be refering to Goodman, Schewarner, and Chaney the 3 volunteers murdered down in Mississippi doing voting rights outreach. While I as a Northern white kid began being taught by my parents about racism Southern -and- Northern around '64 - '65 (11 - 12 yes old): these 3, the Black people being attacked by Bulk Connor etc I learned about a couple of years afterwards. By '66 I was following the news myself. And while I must have seen *Rockwell's painting of Ms Bridges* a few years after he painted it; he -also painted- a picture of *those 3 Civil Rights workers* being confronted, and shot down in the woods of Mississippi. I didn't even know that there was such a painting by Rockwell existed untill the early '00s! It's probably still lesser well known, and still it absolutely stuns you with it's horror. (truly wonderful here and now, though, to see Ruby Bridges on Colbert)

I just looked up that, what a heartbreaking memory that shown in all its horror! I can’t think of a few people now who should be reminded of this time in our country!

Yes, I want to know more about her, too!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p92SaNukt7WVqZc.htmlfeature=shared. This was aired about 10 yrs ago

me too @@shawnpreston1639

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsyTbMxqzMzXlGw.html @@shawnpreston1639

⁠@@Villagenanny Thank you for the link! I found this other beautiful interview. When Barbara Henry describes meeting little Ruby for the first time, I lost it. 😭😭 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsyTbMxqzMzXlGw.htmlsi=sLV9Ud7mJ2GyBrB_

Amen

Carrie, your writing support a kind heart. I hope for nothing but the best for you. Let’s hope others are moved to reflect on what and how they teach children.

If she's from Boston, she'd be called Yankee and other names too. But her name is easily found on the internet. Barbara Henry

Homeschooling wasn't a big thing back then - a lot of the white students pulled out of integrated schools were sent to private "segregation academies."

@@ttintagel Fair enough, you're probably right--thus today we have this problem of private schools getting federal funding, and the dismantling of the Department of Education by Republicans, driven by racist Southern whites. Very informative. We need an educated population, and we don't have it, and this is a huge reason why. An educated population is absolutely vital to the success of the government and a country. That's why we had public schools and standardized education in the first place, why we had court cases to determine that only true facts were taught in science books, and some of us worked hard to ensure ALL citizens were educated. The right has been steadily chipping away at that for decades, and look at how stupid our is population now. The Earth is flat, God made everything in six days, and we don't need no education!

As a white child her age in the south, I was most amazed by the white women screaming at her. They couldn't even see her as a vulnerable child: they were oblivious to her humanity.

Facts! And so sad!

... more than*

Me too. I could barely read the book to my students without tearing up.

Did you see all those racist white men smiling and helping the black kid go to school in the photo?

Ι am not an American and my country in the Balkan area are all white,but you are so correct I dont know much abt that period in America, but the little girl in the picture broke my heart. So glad she is where she is today. Respect!!!

I think that's what shocked me the most here. The problems Ruby brought up are relatively recent, and we have people in government who want to undo everything Ruby and the other civil rights leaders have done to make our country better. It's frightening, but we won't let these wannabe dictators win.

In my lifetime, I watched on TV. I could never understood the hatred of racism. I can’t understand the hatred that most politicians have to hide- and especially those who are openly hateful.

Ignorant people want to change and erase history that’s horrible and can’t be done

You are loved and supported for who you are. Please know that many cisgender people are on your side. ❤

Glad you were touched by her story, not so much that you still made this about you.

It's the same group doing the oppressing. And they don't like when minority communities band together because there's more of us than those loud bigots.

@jayme3676 wow you're a troll, it's called sympathy you know when you can actually relate to someone's real world experiences. People like you are awful and ruin constructive dialog.

Thank Harvey Milk that you can come out freely. The 70s was pivotal for your community as the 60's for mine. (Black).

@sabrinalastname9719 What "genocide"? The Gazan population has more than doubled since 2005 and around 25% of the population of Israel is Arabic. If Israelis are practising apartheid, they are absolutely failing at it! LOL

@@gerryc3112 the genocide that South Africa has brought before the ICJ! You know, the birth place of Mandela and Trevor?

Genocide? Do you perhaps mean the close to 2000 people slaughtered by Hamas in their attack in October 2023, among them many kibbutz workers from all over the world who were sympathetic to the Palestinian people?

Or get the presidential Medal of Freedom Trump sure as hell wouldn't give her one...

It doesn't make sense that she hasn't been awarded this already.@@jillfromatlanta427

Please let’s not politicize this lady. We have enough polarization in this country already. I think she’s so much well received because she isn’t seen as an operative for anyone’s agenda. Let’s keep it that way. And, we’re also assuming we know her personal politics. Again, let’s not put her in a box. Her mission seems to be about children and bettering the next generation. Let’s accept that. She deserves peace in her latter years. However, as it pertains to books, she should be a guess of the president when he addresses the nation at the congressional hall. She could stand and represent banned author of important books that are a part of American history and should be taught. To me, that makes more sense, and she’s there to represent a cause that near and dear to her.

Not about politics, she's living history and more need to know about her. Not about getting votes for a Presidential candidate.@@shawnpreston1639

@Sarbet888 Yes, her parents were extremely brave! Ruby was emotionally protected for a time by her childhood innocence, but her parents were aware of the hate, vitriol, and danger right from the beginning. It could not have been easy.

She's 69, and looks incredible o:

@@pizzaruby5140 She is stunning and apparently a year younger than my mother 😂 Amazing to think that treatment happened in her lifetime

Also goes to show the impact that a great empowering teacher can have ♥

Especially the black adults

@@lauralishes1 Sure thing MAGA. It sure isn't black parents carrying Confed and Nutzi racist flags, that's White MAGAs doing that. And are the ones crying the most about "white replacement theory", "crt", and "woke".

@@lauralishes1 Sure thing. White adults, especially of the MAGA variety FIRST.

Oh my goodness, so well put!! It is unbelievable to me as well, yet it was/is real! We need LOVE and KINDNESS, not hate and cruelty!

That great teacher was Barbara Henry. She is still alive at 91 years of age.

@@kevinriddell2105thanks! I’m going to look her up

Amen

She did get a standing ovation. They showed the audience standing as she walked in.

They did stand

I watched it on TV

@@edwardlulofs444 I’m a young African American, and this was before my time. But, from a white perspective, could you describe to me what that was like - and how it was discussed in your family, if it was at all? If you all don’t mind?

@@shawnpreston1639 well, I guess I could say a lot about this time. My father was a cop and a typical one: politically conservative and fairly racist. I could never understand or accept racism. It was obvious to me that it was all about continued exploitation of people of color. I wanted to be a freedom rider. MLK was and is a hero. But was not able to as I was 10. I remember Ruby Bridges from TV news. I watched MLK’s “I have a dream” on TV. It was wonderful. I’m considered ASD so no social skills. But from the ASD I saw the hypocrisy and corruption of society. None of that helped me fit in. Strangely, a person still acquires behavior from others: I unwittingly sometimes acted racist. Over time, one by one, I was able to see that and correct my behavior. I have developed the theories of the math and physics of diversity but no one cares. My social skills are like code switching: I have learned some skills if I think about them but am not comfortable doing it. Now I see many other groups experiencing discrimination and try to help everyone. Now, like many people, age and disability are taking their toll. So I live simply and quietly. I hope that this helps you.

@@shawnpreston1639 it’s difficult to write on my phone. The midwest of USA was strange. People were as racist as southerners but they tried to hide it. That seemed even more hypocritical than southerners who were openly racist. I have seen little racism before the year 1700. It seems obvious to me that enslaving people by skin color made it easy to discriminate and that created racism and spread it throughout the world. Racism is an evil created and maintained by western culture. People want to think good of themselves but life seems to cause many problems. People don’t want to be racist but they want money and power even more. So they are forced to try to deny being racist. I believe everyone in America and lesser so in the world is racist. It is deeply ingrained in western culture now. People are not “rational” but want to believe themselves reasonable. Now I try to also reduce sexism and homophobia as well as racism. I study all sources of truth. Human communication is very limited.

If we only have a few more Americans as brave as her, then we will be alright. But I’m not sure if we do ….

You know that most of the people who yelled at and isulted her claimed that the same imaginary friend you ask to bless her was on their side, don't you?

@@einundsiebenziger5488 you can lie about loving Jesus, but you can’t fake love ❤️