Posted on 08/27/2014 1:19:08 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Thieves have struck the apartment complex where Rosa Parks lived when she made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, police said Tuesday.
Detectives are seeking suspects who ripped and stole copper wiring from Parks' former apartment and several other now-vacant units being renovated, Montgomery police Sgt. Denise Barnes said. Workers discovered the thefts Monday. Police believe the crimes happened between 4 p.m. Friday and Monday, Barnes said.
"Vandals came in and pilfered it. They went in and tore out the walls and they stole the copper pipes and pretty much destroyed the apartment," said Evette Hester, executive director of the Montgomery Housing Authority, which has been working to refurbish the complex and enhance its historic aspects
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Rosa Parks unfortunately had other encounters with street thugs
On August 30, 1994, Joseph Skipper, an African-American drug addict, entered her home and attacked the 81-year-old Parks in the course of a robbery. The incident sparked outrage throughout the United States. After his arrest, Skipper said that he had not known he was in Parks' home but recognized her after entering. Skipper asked, "Hey, aren't you Rosa Parks?" to which she replied, "Yes." She handed him $3 when he demanded money, and an additional $50 when he demanded more. Before fleeing, Skipper struck Parks in the face.
The thieves probably rode the bus to her apartment.
Maybe they don’t like coppers...
When I lived in Michigan in the early 90’s, Rosa Parks often made the local news as a crime victim. Always at the hands of young black thugs who had no idea who she was.
But they road in the front.
Hey, aren't you Rosa Parks?
Yes.
KA-BAMM!!!!!
rode
You mean to tell me that the wiring, the plumbing pipes, her toilet, her dirty underpants and used toilet paper haven’t been enshrined in the Smithsonian?
It’s a national disgrace, that’s what it is.
/s
The black community has largely digressed and the whites are following. :(
Did they only take the copper from the back of the apartment?
Hey, what’s da’ big deal. Just wealf redistribution in action. Ol’ Rosa got too much publicity, made some money, actin’ too white. She gots to pay HER fair share, too...Yo?!
Why not. The Greensboro Lunch Counter of Courage is on display at the Smithsonian, why not Rosa’s ‘gerts?
what she did was historic and did need to be done, however, a huge misconception is that her actions were spontaneous. In fact they were nothing of the sort — she was a long time political activist and her role was chosen:
Her sitting down in the Font Of Tha Bus was an action was ASSIGNED to her by a political committee.
Less worthy? Prolly not.
But the notion that she was a completely apolitical southern black woman who simply had reached a privately held “limit” is a total LIE.
Oh no! The tragedy! I won’t be able to sleep tonight!
Ooohhhh....nice.
Closely related:
Betty Friedan’s founding of feminism
The lefties think it plays better if u think she was a middle-class, apolitical woman like many millions of others and had some type of deeply held, spiritual moment of clarity.
Ridiculous:
She was a semi-wealthy, longtime leftist ideologue and one-time extra-marital lover of one Mr. V.I. Lenin himself.
Just a coincidence, eh...?
Russian Tourists ?
You mean to tell me that the wiring, the plumbing pipes, her toilet, her dirty underpants and used toilet paper haven’t been enshrined in the Smithsonian? It’s a national disgrace, that’s what it is.
aw man, you just made my day
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