Rubi Bridges is still young

This is a powerful book because of the pictures that are connected to it. They are real…and they force me to look to see white children in those pictures. Those white children were the same age as Rubi then…and are still the same age as Rubi now. They were taught to hate. They were taught to scream epithets at her as she walked in the school. Where are they now? What are they like? Have they apologized or do they pretend they aren’t/weren’t impacted by all of that? We have a lot of work to do…because although Rubi Bridges stands in our midst, so do those other children.