Posted on 10/24/2005 6:58:25 PM PDT by jmc1969
May God rest her Soul
Her movement was hijacked by liberalism I.E the "white socialist people" before these idjuts you mention ever got famous.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (state rep) and Kwame Kilpatrick (her son) have announced plans to name the Homeland Security building in Detroit after Parks. John Conyers stated she was the 'greatest woman in the history of the world'. I guess Mother Therea neds to move over.
I never felt that Rosa Parks set out to become a part of history. She didn't plot and conspire to get her name in the papers. She simply made a decision that she was tired and she didn't feel like moving and that she was going to quietly take her stand. I don't think she ever planned to be a part of history, but she certainly was such an important part. She did what was right, and she was rewarded for it with a good life.
Are they gonna make her ride in the back of the hearse?
May Mrs. Parks rest in peace. She stood up for what she couldn't stand for.
And may some RINOs show they've got enough character to vote with Conservatives so that the Majority is not jackbooted to the back of the American bus.
(/end rant, so that this thread doesn't become a Wellstone-funeral type disgrace)
Yea, but you can't go through life worrying about what doofuses like mom and son Kilpatrick and Conyers have to say. Just give credit where credit is due and move on.
Actually, Al Yankovic's "Another One Rides The Bus". I was hoping the underlying 'bus' metaphor would come through...
It's like trying to blame Marilyn Manson on Buddy Holly.
She has attained her eternal rest; may God Bless her memory.
She going to her grave KNOWING she made a difference.
May God bless this fine lady.
"She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?"
She and her husband moved to Detroit in 1957, so she spent most of her life there, not just retirement. She apparently endured a lot of harrassment in Alabama after the bus strike.
To leave this world knowing that you helped make it a better place.......that's a dream come true.
Like Jackie Robinson, she bore an unimaginable burden with grace and dignity. An example for everyone. R.I.P.
And a life that wasn't frittered away. Hers had meaning.
Had to think about that one for a minute. :-)
True, though.
Jackson and Sharpton can only dream of the kind of bravery this lady showed. May she rest in peace.
She will be riding in the front of the bus to heaven.
I have no idea of her politics either but in his autobiography, former Rep. JC Watts says that Rosa Parks tried to talk him out of retiring from Congress.
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