BROOKLYN, NY – NOVEMBER 13: Ruby Bridges speaks onstage at Glamour’s 2017 Women of The Year Awards at Kings Theatre on November 13, 2017 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Glamour)
A school here in Florida has temporarily barred students from viewing a historic black history film about civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges.
The Tampa Bay Times says each child was required to sign a permission slip to view the film, but a parent filed a complaint after watching the first 50 minutes of the film alleging the movie teaches students about racial slurs and how “white people hate black people.”
The film “Ruby Bridges” is a drama about 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrating a New Orleans elementary school in 1960,
When will people learn you can’t erase, or rewrite history?