Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92

ClickOnDetroit ^ | October 24 2005

[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.

[mhking]

That "coming out" was a while ago. Now they're in plain sight, without a care in the world.

Yep. And it's more than frustrating, it's sliding FR down the tubes.

[cyborg]

Yes you are absolutely right about the democrats. My original comment was more towards the way that many people who called themselves patriotic Americans and christians condemned communism BUT thought segregation was business as usual. How many people thought that it was 'the way things were' and didn't think much of it.

[cyborg]

You nailed it. They told many of the people what they wanted to hear.

[cyborg]

I've been working and haven't been on FR much as I used to. Also, time is a very precious commodity and I rather devote it to chatting with petronski or reading more productive things like 'hottest new hair oil'.

[TradicalRC]

Marxism isn't really a form of government. It's a theory of history. He didn't write much about actual communism in practice just mostly elucidating his theory of history and criticizing capitalism. So whatever thug comes around can just impose their ideas on top of what was a pretty thin idea to begin with.

Um, no. His Das Kapital may have contained his ideas on human and history in general and economic theory in particular but The Communist Manifesto is a political tract advocating the dictatorship of the proletariat, written specifically for the Communist League in London.

[Borges]

Yes it was. It's also pretty insignificant in the general body of his work. Written specifically to rabble rouse. Simply calling for a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' isn't my idea of describing a form of Goverment. Plato's Republic it ain't.

[TradicalRC]

I can't believe you're posting that old, old picture. Lame and irrelevant.

Old? Well so is most of history. Irrelevant? History matters. Lame? We report, you decide.;*}

[TradicalRC]

Yep. I threw out the names Chambers, Cleaver and Horowitz early in the thread. The "once-a-commie-always-a-commie" folks haven't cared to comment. Hope they don't find out what organization a certain Bishop of Rome once belonged to in his youth.

I love those guys: Witness was an excellent book. Chambers publicly refuted communism, Cleaver publicly came out as a Republican and Horowitz has publicly denounced his radical leftism with all of his "second thoughts". Did Rosa Parks do that?

[TradicalRC]

My original comment was more towards the way that many people who called themselves patriotic Americans and christians condemned communism BUT thought segregation was business as usual. How many people thought that it was 'the way things were' and didn't think much of it.

True enough but however laudable the civil rights movements results were (and not all of them are) the motivation of the communist party-USA was purely political. In fact, I believe Horowitz has an interesting story regarding Paul Robeson's trip to the Soviet Union.

[TradicalRC]

Yes it was. It's also pretty insignificant in the general body of his work. Written specifically to rabble rouse.

It is his most widely read work.

[TradicalRC]

Plato's Republic it ain't.

Plato is the godfather of all dictators.

[Borges]

Yes he was! But he actually described his dictatorship in great detail.

[Palladin]

May you rest in peace, Miss Rosa. Well done, good and faithful servant.

[Alter Kaker]

She lead a long life and left a mark on her nation's history. What else need be said? Many aren't as fortunate.

What else need be said? She was a great woman who did a noble and courageous thing. I'm not sure I understand why you take exception to the honoring of Rosa Parks.

[Alter Kaker]

So you're parroting the KKK argument of old. Real classy. Except that neither Martin Luther King nor Rosa Parks were Communists, and to the limited extent that Communists were active in the Civil Rights movement, they, nevertheless, were COMPLETELY CORRECT on the fundamental question -- that racial discrimination was and is morally reprehensible.

If support for Civil Rights is all it takes to make one a Communist, then I hope we're all Communists.

[Larry Lucido]

Did Rosa Parks do that?

She stood her ground (or seat) got arrested by some retards and sparked a boycott that made a municipal bus system cry uncle. Then went on to live a quiet, dignified life. More than enough for me, and should be for anyone else.

I didn't care for her boss. Maybe if a conservative had come forward with an offer of employment?

[Albion Wilde]

God bless her courage and example, and send comfort to her family.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"he and Miss Parks rode the bus together, didn't they"

but Al Gore invented mass transit.

[Heyworth]

Ford's anti-Jewish campaign was less the result of real deep-seated anti-semitism and more Midwestern ignorance and being easily swayed by others with agendas. And he didn't think he was anti-semitic in his activities. He thought more that he was just exposing a conspiracy that happened to be run by Jews. He said something to the effect of "I'm just trying to take a stick to them and make them listen to the words of their great teachers." He couldn't understand why his friend and neighbor, the chief rabbi of Detroit, gave back the Model T Ford had given him.

I don't know about an apology, but when he began to see how it was hurting business, public relations, and was faced with a libel trial over some of his statements, he just dropped the whole thing. He'd been embarassed in court before, when he'd sued the Chicago Tribune for libel and his general ignorance about the world was exposed on the stand. That's where the famous/infamous "History is bunk" quote comes from. He did NOT want to be on a witness stand again.

There's one more story, from one source, that at the end of WW2, when the footage of the death camps reached America, Ford was shown some of them at the private screening room at the Rouge. He stumbled out of there wide-eyed and terrified. Was it guilt? Was it fear he'd be blamed? Did it even happen? Who knows, but it's an apt coda to the story.

[Bella_Bru]

Just like the christian segregationists used to say, the commies are behind the nigras wanting their rights!

Funny you should mention that. Years ago I read a book titled Separate Pasts. It was written by an historian who grew up in small town in NC in the late 40's early 50's. He states that he was raised with that notion the only godless Communists believed that blacks and whites were equal and that segregation should go away.