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I have posted about Rosa here before. Her death saddens me but I find a jewel of info about her past that brings back other memories. I read in Rueter's ONE SENTENCE COVERAGE that Rosa was a seamstress. My grandmother was a seamstress in Atlanta at this time. A black co-worker came to work bruised from a beating by her drunken husband one too many times. My grandfather, a member of the local KKK didn't like the way it affected my grandmother so he and some friends loaded a white horse on a trailer behind an old Chevy pickup and drove by the wife-beater's house on Sunday morning when the wife was at church. Hubby was drinking on the porch steps and a shout from the truck told him he would be " riding this white horse " if he hit his wife again. My grandmother and her friend were never told about this event but the black seamstress later remarked what a wonderful change had come over her husband - no beatings and he had even stopped drinking all together.

I abhore all things KKK then and particularly now with it's alliance with Nazism but like the NAACP - some things get taken over by self-serving lower case trash and used for self-promotion. Have you noticed how much press was given to Dr. King's wife when she became ill ? No woman has advanced human rights with the dignity of Rosa Parks except Princess Dianna and Mother Teresa. But that's another story ........

And Rosa gets one sentence coverage by Reuters.

"... I abhore all things KKK then and particularly now with it's alliance with Nazism but like the NAACP - some things get taken over by self-serving lower case trash and used for self-promotion."

Yeah, you're probably right -- not everything the KKK did was bad. I read somewhere they used to help organize bake sales too, before the really bad Klansmen took over :)

My grandfather, a member of the local KKK didn't like the way it affected my grandmother so he and some friends loaded a white horse on a trailer behind an old Chevy pickup and drove by the wife-beater's house on Sunday morning when the wife was at church. Hubby was drinking on the porch steps and a shout from the truck told him he would be " riding this white horse " if he hit his wife again. My grandmother and her friend were never told about this event but the black seamstress later remarked what a wonderful change had come over her husband - no beatings and he had even stopped drinking all together.

In areas where organized criminal/terrorist gangs florish, they tend to act as local police -- it maintains their community support. I wouldn't be surprised to hear similar anecdotes about (for example) the local Mafia enforcers or Hamas cell leaning on a troublemaker.

"No woman has advanced human rights with the dignity of Rosa Parks except Princess Dianna and Mother Teresa. But that's another story ........ "

Princess Dianna? Gimme a break. She spent most of her life boozing and whoring at cocktail parties and polo matches. To mention her in the same sentence as Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa is outrageous.