Yeah, what may have been disgusting previously, is a downright criminal movement now! It's just another "Progressive" movement!
Posted on 12/01/2015 2:51:51 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
....1. Rosa Parks sat in the whites-only section of the bus.
....2. If Rosa Parks had not moved, a white passenger would not have had a place to sit....
....3. This was Rosa Parks's first conflict with that bus driver.
....4. Rosa Parks refused to stand up because she was tired......
...5. Rosa Parks was the first black woman to exercise civil disobedience on a Montgomery bus.
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Rosa Parks and her local NAACP were moved by the horrors of Emmett Till’s vile murder. All committed, undoubtedly, by ignorant Democrats.
I love the American south (and bought the last Confederate flag out of Amazon), its amazing history and its fine traditions and statesmen. I loathe the politically-correct people who would erase the south’s great history.
The Koreans are moving east as towards the Kia, West Point, GA.
Oh, Abraham, Abraham Lincoln! Bring us life as to as our God, government. Let us worship before you. You, our God, is great before all of creation. Abraham, Abraham Lincoln you are our God.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God from whom all you know..
God is government
Government is God.
Staged? You have no evidence of that whatsoever unless you can produce film evidence.....
Assuming your premise, are you saying that segregation and racist discrimination was non existent?
Rosa Parks was indeed a black icon and set off a movement that eventually rid our country of a disgusting way of life.............
Wardaddy is a fine freeper and American. I will defend him against anyone. That he is probably embittered about the denigration of his southern history is understandable. All of us who love the south have been through hell during Obama’s administration.
disgusting way of life.............
Crony capitalism is just as disgusting.. Just as disgusting..
It will be the venue that turns America into HELL!!
Yeah, what may have been disgusting previously, is a downright criminal movement now! It's just another "Progressive" movement!
Considering the topic of this thread, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about..........
You're not posting during happy hour are you?
Why don’t you tear down every western monument to the white man in your fair but stoned State
I mean you butchered the Indians
Whites in Colorado need to ride in the back of the bus right now I think
A Green bus I hope
Blacks in Colorado are 4 % of the state
Blacks in Denver are 10%
My home state of Mississippi is almost 40% black and my hometown is 80%
When you’ve lived that pleasure then you can lecture me how to deal with your pet race
Meanwhile deal with your own demographic ass pimples
I was private schooled/home schooled.
You??
“That he is probably embittered about the denigration of his southern history is understandable. All of us who love the south have been through hell during Obama’s administration.”
Uh, hon, I was born, raised and educated in the South. I have ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary war at Kings Hill, and have ancestors that fought for the South in the civil war in numerous different battles. I have ancestors who lost land and fortune when Yankees occupied and then stole their South Carolina low country cotton plantations.
From the South or not from the South, hell or no hell from obama, embittered or not embittered, THERE IS NO DEFENSE for support in legislating U.S. citizens into second-class categories based on skin color, a la, separate seating in various manners of public and private endeavors, separate bathrooms, separate drinking fountains, etc. No defense. None.
I’m old enough to have seen it personally. And it is evil. Pure and simple, it is evil.
I think the primary point is that Rosa Parks was not just "somebody" and the event didn't "just happen". There was an effort at the time to bring attention to the segregation of the buses. Black people wanted the situation addressed. They found a way to address it.
From Wikipedia:
Black activists had begun to build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as Advisor. Colvin's legal case formed the core of Browder v. Gale, which ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott when the Supreme Court ruled on it in December, 1956.
Method of segregation on Montgomery buses
Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back. On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard. National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott.
In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic.
Nothing I'm posting is meant as a criticism of Rosa Parks. Segregation was wrong. But the events that made her famous were intentional -- people wanted the situation fixed, and they found a way to fix it.
We may not want to call it "staged", but it was supposed to happen.
Uh, hon, did he defend this? Or are you just assuming he defended this? And don’t call me ‘hon’. My husband doesn’t appreciate it and neither do I.
And, unless you know better, most of us Americans remember this upfront and personal and don’t defend it. Quite the opposite, fool.
May I call you fool?
I agree.
It was staged to some degree. I doubt Parks knew that day it would all come together. Doesn’t make it wrong.
“Quite the opposite, fool. May I call you fool?”
Oh, absolutely. I love Ad hominem attacks. It means that intelligent discussion has ended, assuming there was any to start with. Nonetheless, your name-calling is trite and lacks imagination. Please think up some more interesting insults in the future, if that’s possible.
Indeed. In the 1930's and 1940's, the Communists were outspoken opponents of Jim Crow laws--not that they gave a hoot about civil rights, but rather, as a means to win blacks over to their cause.
Funny thing the usa is in the process of voluntary resegregation.
You called me ‘hon’,fool, without my permission. Perhaps, as a fine upstanding Democrat, you felt you could take that impertinence. I only allow people who know and respect me to use that endearment.
In other words, go to hell.
Exactly so.
The NAACP desired a change in the law.
The NAACP desired that an incident take place.
The NAACP desired a non-violent conflict.
The NAACP desired publicity to get the law changed.
The NAACP desired an end to bus segregation.
The NAACP was extremely effective in this situation.
There was nothing “fake” about it (if people think “staged” implies “fake”). It was a desired outcome. The NAACP was ready to get this done.
The end of segregation is absolutely a good thing.
I still have no idea what the hell you're talking about..........
What does Crony Capitalism have to do with this thread about Rosa Parks????
Again, are you posting from the bar during happy hour?
Get your head out of your butt and look at what you are posting AND THE THREAD YOU ARE POSTING ON............SHEESH!
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