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In the end, it was the strawberry tart that broke him.

Laurent was never one to gloss over the things that affected him, and in the past ten years, a lot had happened. He’d watched his mother fade away, lost his father and Auguste, both ripped from him on the battlefield. He’d been left alone, vulnerable, with a man who would twist his idea of family so thoroughly that he feared he would never be able to fully unravel the thorns that wrapped around his heart. He fell in love with the man who caused him the most pain, and impaled himself on their past so that he might taste their future. His love for Damianos started as a wound that had to bleed, and bleed, until the bitterness finally drained out.

And yet, with each type of misery, each one more acute than the last, he seemed to cry less and less. The constant weeping of a boy losing his mother turned into waterfalls of sobs over his brother that left him dry-throated and hiccuping after each bout. These became unshed tears, hidden in a pillow that was not his own, which turned to empty-eyed stares into nothing when he was alone, and finally, to the cold, dry gaze that he became known for. No one remembered the tears but him.

By the time the Akielon slave was dumped at his feet, Laurent could not remember the last time he had cried. The tears had run out.

boy can i 

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.

People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!

Ruby Bridges in 2010 

“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“ 

U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”

More info on Ruby Bridges on Wikipedia

THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S. 

This is literally how she looks in 2017. 

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by a human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.