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Strength from Stillness: Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled in US Capitol
NBC News ^ | Feb. 28, 2013 | Erin McClam

Posted on 02/28/2013 6:38:34 PM PST by Bon of Babble

More than half a century after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, Rosa Parks has an immovable place in the U.S. Capitol — the first black woman to be honored with a statue there.

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders from both parties said at an unveiling Wednesday that the depiction was fitting: Parks is shown seated, hands clasped in front of her, eyes fixed forward.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.nbcnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blacks; rosaparks; statue; uscapitol
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1 posted on 02/28/2013 6:38:38 PM PST by Bon of Babble
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To: Bon of Babble
Here's the sculptor:
2 posted on 02/28/2013 6:42:55 PM PST by Bon of Babble (I have seen the future and I'm going back to bed!!)
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To: Bon of Babble

Filthy racist ba$tard!


3 posted on 02/28/2013 6:43:16 PM PST by laweeks
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To: Bon of Babble; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
Why does it look like Imelda Marcos?


4 posted on 02/28/2013 6:45:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Bon of Babble

So will John Kerry get a statue for being the Rosa Parks of stupid?


5 posted on 02/28/2013 6:45:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Bon of Babble
The Straight Dope on Rosa Parks

6 posted on 02/28/2013 6:45:54 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Bon of Babble

Will Obama be so willing to celebrate someone who refuses to give up her guns?


7 posted on 02/28/2013 6:47:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Bon of Babble

I understand this statue replaced the statue of General Robert E. Lee. Anyone have an idea as to where THAT statue was sent?

RLTW


8 posted on 02/28/2013 6:48:29 PM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: laweeks

Who? O-Bow-Ma?


9 posted on 02/28/2013 6:48:39 PM PST by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL!!


10 posted on 02/28/2013 6:50:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Bon of Babble

this radical left wing man who has never ran a hotdog stand in his life or ever done a budget has time for this but can;t find time to stop this madness of spending, oh yea he wants spending, his agenda is to make Amercia as weak and third world as he can and all in the name of social justice.

How happy he looks because the man knows deep down that he never did a thing in his life like parks but jumped on the bandwagon and then used his non white skin to get where he is , just like his butt bumpimg , late show comedy classless wife.

Yes you left wing kooks who troll on here, I said it, so what, take my name, I couldn;t careless, he and his wife only got to where he and she is because of their lack of white color, if he;s so smart then reveal yourselves instead of being a troll and tell me his grades, his back ground, oh wait you can;t because he;s a thicky who passed and got into schools based on color.


11 posted on 02/28/2013 6:50:26 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: military cop

TELL ME YOU MADE THAT UP PLEASE.

Saying that this man has no idea about the history of this country only the history of certain famous people fighting those evil white folk.

The country was founded on fredom from Govt and a King and yet this clown thinks it;s payback time and social justice, maybe the white folls who voted for him might wake the hell up and understand racism is a two way street, hell his talk of right white folk is bigoted, and his wife, don;t get me started


12 posted on 02/28/2013 6:53:34 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Bon of Babble

Well shoot...that ties it. Let’s make her a saint. S**t, who needs the Vatican? Let Obambi make it so. Done deal. Saint Rosa.

Oh...let’s not stop there. Let’s give her her own holiday. No...let’s make it a week: Saint Rosa Parks Week. No one works. Everyone has to find a racist whitey and beat them to death, and then find all the black asses you can possibly find and kiss them. That all would be proper.

Let’s do it. I’ll start a petition. What say you?


13 posted on 02/28/2013 6:56:14 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Bon of Babble

Normally I’d celebrate a monument to Rosa Parks, but not while we’re under that communist SOB. This slimy, degenerate President would ruin the second coming for me.


14 posted on 02/28/2013 6:56:32 PM PST by VR-21
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To: Bon of Babble

Watch it, Sucka!

15 posted on 02/28/2013 6:57:18 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Bon of Babble

I saw an interview with her about a million years ago, the interviewer said “why did you take a stand”, “did you know your actions would start a movement”
Parks was very sweet, she smiled “I was just tired and didn’t want to walk to the back of the bus, that’s all”.


16 posted on 02/28/2013 6:57:47 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: VR-21
I wonder if the Rosa statue will ever get covered-up like the NAACP did to George Washington during their MLK celebration:


18 posted on 02/28/2013 7:01:34 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Bon of Babble

Rosa PArks bucked democrat controlled southern culture and the democrat controlled KKK.. and was more than likely republican..

I wonder if it says THAT on this statue.?..


19 posted on 02/28/2013 7:08:16 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Bon of Babble

Does it say under the statue: “Had to sit in the back of the bus because of oppression and persecution by Democrats?”


20 posted on 02/28/2013 7:16:26 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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