Our youth have always been the driving force of movements for change. Today we honor and recognize 4 NC A&T Aggies — students who held the first sit-in of the civil rights movement.
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59 years ago at a Greensboro Woolworth’s, their courage, strength, and refusal to accept injustice brought our a nation a step closer to who we can and should be.pic.twitter.com/TgntJs6yxW
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Incredible what they had to endure at the hands of democrats. Thankfully the republicans where there for them.
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I think these kids in this picture family should be well off and taking care of because they fought for the freedoms we have today,dont you agree?
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Mostly we’ve come a long way but there are still a few stragglers out there. I applaud all that stood up to be accounted for. Each step was and is appreciated.
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I don’t think we have mostly come a long way. There was an attempted lynching of a black actor who is on a major tv show, last week in the streets of Chicago. White supremacists are marching in our streets and holding office, not nothing to cover their tracks.
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I can't help but wonder how those courageous souls would've felt about public policies that direct more resources into education than jails; or about a demagogue who thinks it necessary and her charge to instead remind them that crime exists.
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