Do these photos make you SAD, MAD or PROUD?

[dtownreppin214]

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.

Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.

People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.

 

[thegreatwb]

This is the history that whites want us to forget about.

counts

 

[jadillac]

Mad and Proud....but more mad than proud

And white people who are closet racists don't realize that inside of them the same potential behavior exists, if not for the laws of today.

 

[Ooh Marty]

And to know that every pasty, disgusting, racist piece of shyt cac in those pics are grand fathers, old as shyt n still living

 

[King Poetic]

proud, but at the same time i wish that was a muslim girl strapped with a bomb from afghanistan and then i would be really proud

 

[semtex]

Stuff like this is the reason I look at old white people like

U know they did some foul shyt back in the day especially down here its almost a guarantee they did.

 

[DrX]

blacks are the strongest people.....built to last baby

 

[AAKing23]

Mad, I've been on my fukk Cacs shyt real hard lately

 

[dtownreppin214]

Mad and Proud....but more mad than proud

And white people who are closet racists don't realize that inside of them the same potential behavior exists, if not for the laws of today.

breh everytime i see an old cac in dallas, i always look at them sideways b/c you never know how much of that jim crow is left in them.

This is the history that whites want us to forget about.

counts

nice video. but those old cacs always turn into saints as they near death and their judgement day.

 

[Nymeria]

This is why old white people get my everlasting disdain.

 

[MekaCatt]

Poor sista, she had to have been so uncomfortable.

 

[OC's finest]

i remember how insecure and self conscious i was at the age of 15. and this girl had the heart to do that. alotta respect

 

[thegreatwb]

The real question is how many people today would have enough courage to make that walk without breaking down and running back home.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

mad but the colored bathroom/water fountain pics make me more mad though.

You telling me a negro can't put bodily waste in the same place as you? which is funny cause white people have a strange obsession with fecal matter

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Remember this was not 1957..think about

Half of those pigs are now about to retire and probably your neighbour

Yet racism is dead