ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 12月30日 01時18分
4 summers ago, Mo’ne Davis became the first girl to pitch a shutout at the @littleleague #WorldSeries and, apparently, was the first African-American girl to participate in the tournament. Now 17, @monee_011 has committed to playing #softball — she is a shortstop — at @_hamptonu in Virginia. Her decision to attend a historically black university was partly inspired by the positive experiences of older friends. It also reflected a social awakening informed, among other things, by meeting President @Barack Obama and @ミシェル・オバマ at the White House in 2014 and a bus trip through the South in 2015 with her rec-center baseball team to visit landmarks of the civil rights era. Mo’ne and her teammates met Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a towering activist in the #civilrights movement who helped lead the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 to promote black voter registration and the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation of public buses.
@repjohnlewis told the players a story about forgiveness and reconciliation. In 2009, he received a visit on Capitol Hill from a former supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. Decades earlier, the man and others had attacked and bloodied Lewis when he tried to enter a waiting room for whites at a bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina. “Mr. Lewis, I’m one of the people that beat you,” Elwin Wilson, the former Klan supporter, then in his 70s, and who died in 2013, told the congressman. “I want to apologize. Will you forgive me?” Elwin began crying. “I forgive you,” Representative Lewis said.
The men hugged.
Recounting the story, Mo'ne said: “I thought that was one of the coolest things ever. This world is already full of hate. You can’t just keep putting hate out there.” Visit the link in our profile to see more. @jessierocks took this photo of Mo’ne on her 2015 trip through the south with her Anderson Monarch teammates.
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