Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92

I meant to comment upon your post earlier and got sidetracked. I understand how you feel, but this is how I look at it: I studied the civil rights movement and all of the players for an entire year when I was in college going for my degree in Social Work. None of players were really squeaky clean or perfect human beings-some of them had dubious political involvements- some of them I would disagree with philosophically. BUT there are no other people who are perfect or with whom I would agree with on everything.

IMO Dr. King was a great leader-(and I get flamed every MLK day for saying it) and he and Rosa Parks were doing the right thing with their involvement.

Bottom line for me is that we could not claim to be a free country when we had citizens and human beings beings living here who were denied rights, who were treated unequally and who were prevented from attempting the American dream.

Someone had to stand up and push.

If it were me or my family who were denied the things these people were denied- I would have pushed too...I give Rosa Parks the respect she is due for doing the right thing under what must have been great stress. May she rest in peace.

I meant to comment upon your post earlier and got sidetracked. I understand how you feel, but this is how I look at it: I studied the civil rights movement and all of the players for an entire year when I was in college going for my degree in Social Work. None of players were really squeaky clean or perfect human beings-some of them had dubious political involvements- some of them I would disagree with philosophically. BUT there are no other people who are perfect or with whom I would agree with on everything.

IMO Dr. King was a great leader-(and I get flamed every MLK day for saying it) and he and Rosa Parks were doing the right thing with their involvement.

Bottom line for me is that we could not claim to be a free country when we had citizens and human beings beings living here who were denied rights, who were treated unequally and who were prevented from attempting the American dream.

Someone had to stand up and push.

If it were me or my family who were denied the things these people were denied- I would have pushed too...I give Rosa Parks the respect she is due for doing the right thing under what must have been great stress. May she rest in peace.

I still question motives. I think that it's important to do so, regardless of outcomes. One also has to question the way events are presented. No one is squeaky clean, but stories are often changed to present a particular point of view. This includes the civil rights and Rosa Parks.

Well yes- that is true motives are important- and if you are referring to the involvement with the NAACP then, with all due respect- I still see it a bit differently. It was the Dems who were blocking all of the movement towards an equal society- even in the 60's.. but I wouldn't say that the NAACP was such a terrible organization in the 1960's. I guess some people would say they were militant group- not by today's standards- and I wouldn't say they were racist then as they are now. The way I see it the changes had to happen somehow- Civil rights had undercurrents since the 1700's - it is just that not enough people pushed hard for it to finally come to fruition. Many of our founding fathers wanted to do away with an unequal society- but were afraid that the new nation couldn't take the upheaval..so everyone waited- and I can imagine that by the 1960's people were getting pretty tired of waiting- I would have been tired of wating- so someone had to do something.

I think of my family members who fought in the Civil war. Some people will disagree with me- but I know my ancestors fought for an equal society- so I see it as disrespectful to their honor that in the 1960's in America children could not get drinks of water from certain fountains or ride certain buses...

I just see the rest as history.

RIP, Mrs. Parks. You have certainly left your footprints on the sands of time.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Rosa will be rightly remembered for set off an overdue change in our culture. I didnt know the full story of the Good Samaritan. That was very interesting. I can kinda see a connection with the Jews and Samaritans back then and African Americans and Republicans today. No party ever did more to advance the cause and interest of another and be so hated and maligned in return.