This just in: a woman has been reported fighting her way to the front of the line to get into heaven.
RIP.
-Dan
Posted on 10/24/2005 6:58:25 PM PDT by jmc1969
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Local 4 has learned.
Parks, 92, reportedly died around 7 p.m. Monday at St. John Hospital on Detroit's east side.
Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement. The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.
Parks, was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She lived in Detroit.
I could give a damn myself. How many people who called themselves christians and 'true Americans' didn't do anything and thought 'that's how things are supposed to be'.
Perhaps his musical offering was autobiographical...
Hopefully, reminders of who Rosa Parks was and what she means to American history will stuff a sock down the throats of people who speak of Parks and Cindy Sheehan in the same breath.
Amen, brother. I didn't agree with Frank Zappa about a lot, but he was spot on in the song "Rhymin' Man" about everybody's favorite shakedown artist:
They say when Dr. King got shot,
Jesse hatched an evil plot,
Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood
and rubbed his shirt like playing with mud
Looked round for all the press, and said
'Check me out, my name is Jess'
She has her place in history and now a place in heaven.
Yes, we do. They are called, The US Armed Forces.
I second that.
Mrs. Parks was a gracious heroine.
A long life well lived. R.I.P. Miss.Parks
RIP.
-Dan
May she rest in the Lord's arms.
Of all the video available with her, my local media all picked video of her and Bill Clinton. No bias there.
I'm tired of being told "the nation mourns" (insert a liberal icon) the second it is announced. That's ridiculous. To much of the nation she was a notable character known only in a text book.
She lead a long life and left a mark on her nation's history. What else need be said? Many aren't as fortunate.
I'm sure she outlived everyone on that bus who didn't have the decency to let a woman sit where she wanted.
RIP, Mrs. Parks.
Wait Freepers what are you celebrating? To the leftist we love Hitler and Nazism. Is't that the case? BIG sarcasm. She was a true American for freedom..
Gee. Can't wait for the calls for her canonization.
God bless you, Rosa. You lived your life couragously when faced with adversity. May we all take a lesson from you.
She urged J.C. Watts not to retire from Congress, so I don't think she was a liberal.
Watts read a letter he received from Ms. Parks, in which she wrote: "I am glad I stayed in my seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, Dec. 1, 1955.... I would also like you to keep your seat."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0702/p02s02-uspo.html
Somethings wrong here!! I've read the first hundred or so responses and the vast majority of them are praising this women!!
I thought this site was all about racism, hatred, bogotry, intolerance and so on . . . . [/sarcasm - I hope that wasn't needed!!!]
RIP Rosa, as another freeper has already noted, a front row seat on the bus to heaven has you name permanently reserved for you.
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