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.
She was a brave woman. America is a better place for her.
"Free at last" - The nation honors you!
Rosa Parks, a great hero.
There are many conservative blacks, and they are growing every day.
That's enough to earn respect in any event. I may not agre with everything she said, but I can respect her courage.
She lived in a time where racial discrimination and hatred was an everyday fact of life. She may have said things then, that you or I would have said had we been in her shoes. I cut people slack from that era. But The Rev. JJ is a racebaiter and has no such immunity.
She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?
God bless her. She was an incredibly brave woman.
God bless.
Actually, I think the fact that she still lived until today shows just how little time has passed and how much change se saw in her life.
What she did was right. I'll always stand by someone when they are right. RIP.
I've met a lot of famous people on the job but Ms. Parks was the only person I ever met that had been in the history books for decades.
Yes, and this played a part in why Rosa Parks is "The Famous Rosa Parks".
Rosa wasn't the only one to protest the asinine policy of forcing blacks to sit in the back of the bus. BUT, she was a known quantity to the NAACP, was considered reliable, and had a squeaky clean background. These were the qualities the NAACP needed in someone who would have to go through an ugly legal, political, and PR gauntlet.
So Rosa's case was picked over others to go through the court system. And to her benefit, she showed class both throughout the affair and after everything was said and done.
This was from a different era - back when the NAACP wasn't a bunch of race-baiting numskulls....
God Bless this great woman. Our nation is better off for what she did.
Hope the folks turn out in great numbers to mourn Miss Rosa Parks... Hope those who do attend are realistic enough to shun JJ, AS, Kwasi, Fartacon and the rest of the butt heads that have stolen her legacy!!
Rosa did the right thing. A race-based caste system (or any caste system, for that matter,) was and is an abomination.
Too bad modern day so-called "civil rights" activists see nothing wrong with forcing whites to the back of the line when competing against others for educational and employment opportunities.
"Affirmative action" is morally wrong, because it doles out rewards and punishments based on race, instead of based on individual merit or culpability. Worse, it perpetuates the cycle of unfairness, instead of putting and end to it. The law of reciprocity cannot be repealed.
My wife works for Detroit Edison. About 6 years ago she was in customer service and took a call from Rosa Parks. I asked her if she made her wait at the end of the call queue while she took care of some white customers first. Looked at me like I was crazy.
She did the right thing when it was likely not seeming to be in her best short term interests.
I have no real knowledge of her politics, but she was no Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. She chose action, while those imbeciles choose the limelight.
In other words, the real deal...
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