People Share 30 Facts To Change Your Perspective On History

My mother is the same. Born in 1937, her grandmother Mary was a slave and she voted for Barack Obama.

I have an old photo of my father and uncle as very young boys taken in the early 1930s. They are sitting in the lap of a very old woman my father remembered as Sookie. She'd been born a slave.

My Mum was born in 1907 and died at 93, she saw the beginning of flight, had her first flight when she was about 72 - saw Concorde fly and the first man on the moon. She was in awe of her whole life.

That is a bunch of BS about Harriet Tubman. She died in 1913.

That's fantastic

I substitute teach in Oakland, CA and I've gone months without seeing a white kid in a public school. The schools sometimes claim to have about 2% white kids but these are actually Yemeni immigrants, considered "white" for statistical purposes. Oakland High is less than 1% white. The schools in the affluent Oakland Hills are overwhelmingly white, but the schools in the flats are not integrated. One school was down 6 teachers the whole year. This is 2021.

And looking great!

I always want to cry for that little girl, surrounded by all that hate and she just wants to go to school with her cute dress, little shoes and socks, and her book bag. Leave Ruby ALONE!

Brave family !!!

She looks so young!! Too young for being the poster Child for Segregational Education. Well done Ruby, you looked so fine in the day your Mum must of been so scared but you are both legends.

Looks like it'd grow a lot of olives.

Depending where it stands, Jesus might have walked passed it...

It’s still beautiful in it’s age

My home screen has a similar tree - it's one of my husbands and has been past down. We can only be sure of it being over 1000 years old. The oil is good enough to drink on its own!

Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oyl is 102 years old.

I have that with children's birthdays. 'You're 2, so you were born around 2005?' - 'What do you mean 2019? That was just 2 weeks ago!...'

Going from being the damn kid in the yard to yelling at the damn kids in your yard kind of sneaks up on you

Tell me about it. I still wonder what the year 2000 will bring. Flying cars? Base on the moon? Emigration to Mars? Nuclear Fusion? Nope, it was 21 years ago and all we got is a lousy pocket movie machine (OK, it does a bit more than that).

Yeah, iktf.

Now you're starting to relate to how those boomers feel when they still refer to the 1970's as "25 years ago..."

This is a really good thing

Barack Obama was president longer than the existence of the confederacy.

Maybe someday*some*of us will get over it.

Get dunked on, Robert E. Lee.

So why do they still fly the Confederate flag?

Tooter is much better than Twitter. Accurate, too.

The first telegram for business use was sent in 1837, Twitter started in 2006. That's a really long life but I can't find her in Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Or the Guinness World Records books. So I guess it's Ripley's Not To Be Believed story.

And we shall never call it anything else again.

“Tooter” is colloquial in some places for “toilet”. “Give me 5 minutes, Grandma - I’m on the tooter”.

My Dad grew up in Minnesota, USA on a farm with no electricity, no running water, and just a stove in the kitchen for heating. Think Little House on the Prairie. He just died 10 years ago. His career was building very high tech testing equipment for very high tech equipment. His last job was to build equipment that would test a wind sensor that was being built for the superfast planes used by the military. He got to work with a wind tunnel. I never got to see it :-(

And there are still things like the incredibly high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous women (more than 60% of known abductors/murderers are white men), birth alerts that have kids taken away from Indigenous mothers, and the wildly high rate of Indigenous children in foster care at a rate way higher than the percentage of the population they make up. And, no, it's not because they're bad parents. It's biased removal of children.

Actually, the last residential school closed in 1997. There were still Native kids being taken and abused in these schools while I was going to school. There have been viking boats found on the east shores dating a 1000 years ago.

Actually it depended which tribe, Some were citizens in the 1700s, it was in the 1920s when they gave it to all Native Americans. I mean we had a Native American senator in the 1800s. Further those 15000 were a different ethno group than Modern Natives in North America which are here closer to 4000 years.

You forgot about the genocide.

Actual Native American Indian here. First off, the ancestors for *every extant ethnic group* *also* came from elsewhere, and each ethic group is composed of interminglings with other ethic groups along that way. We've long since discovered that "humanity", just like all other higher lifeforms on Earth, once had different species within our genus. A team of scientists, led by Prof Andy Herries, recently discovered three different hominin species — Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and the earliest-known Homo erectus, all lived in the same place at the same time. Did you know that the South American and African tectonic plates used to be solidly linked? This seriously undermines any argument that extant humans came from any one place or one species or even at any one time. Also reconsider the utter ridiculousness of any argument that says the artifacts of a human civilization predate the presence of humans in a given area. Every ethnic group has a similar history of development.

Somebody needs to introduce this person to the Flashman series.