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.