Posted on 10/27/2005 10:55:50 AM PDT by Shade2
I think Jim Crow was actually worse than slavery in a way.
You win the melodramatic post of the day award.
Sounds like a set up to me.
Well, a "carefully managed, media-savvy campaign" sounds like a set-up to me. Not trying to argue, I just wanted to establish the facts. For that, I get called a crack smoker. Some people just want to talk sh*t.
"I think Jim Crow was actually worse than slavery in a way."
I suppose it could be argued Jim Crow was worse in this way: Under slavery, the slave owner had an interest in his slave, if only for the slave's economic value. Under Jim Crow, neither the white population nor the governments in the Southern States had any interest in the African American population whatsoever.
Well that's you opinion. It has never been proven and she has always held that she didn't get on that bus to get arrested.
She was set up by the communist party, and did not do it on the spur of the moment. Like Cindy planning to chain her self to a fence.
So what if it was a set-up? Seems to me like there was good reason for it, if that in fact is what it was.
Rosa Parks didn't trick anyone. She knew she would be fined for not moving, but she didn't want to move. As a result, the Birmingham police did what they did routinely - followed the law and ticketed her.
She didn't trick the cops into doing something illegal.
Damn communists. Without them, blacks would still have to give up their seats to whites. And maybe we could have our own lunch counters, bathrooms, water fountains, universities...
/major pi$$ed off sarc
Good point.
Thank you for your post.
Great article.
I disagree with you that it was a "set up" by the Communist party. I think the event was pre-orchastrated for effect- but not by the Communists. I disagree that Civil rights groups of the 1960s were based in Communism. Today many of them are-but not in the 1960's.IMO-No matter- things in this country needed to be changed.
The bus incident happened on December 1, 1955. She was not arrested for non-appearance and booked until mid-February 1956.
Also, she did not sit down in a "white seat." The bus she was on only had a moveable card that the bus driver would move from row to row - blacks were supposed to sit behind the card, wherever it happened to be placed.
When she got on the bus that day she sat behind the card, just as she was expected to do. What the bus driver did was move the card behind her, signalling that the white section had expanded and that she would have to get up and move to another seat.
If there had been one less random white passenger that day, she would have spent her entire bus ride in full compliance with Jim Crow.
The incentives of the economic system and the incentives of the political system were not only different, they clashed. Private owners of streetcar, bus, and railroad companies in the South lobbied against the Jim Crow laws while these laws were being written, challenged them in the courts after the laws were passed, and then dragged their feet in enforcing those laws after they were upheld by the courts.These tactics delayed the enforcement of Jim Crow seating laws for years in some places. Then company employees began to be arrested for not enforcing such laws and at least one president of a streetcar company was threatened with jail if he didn't comply.
And it continues to fight it by devising new schemes restoring racial preferences in public universities.
People who smoke are allowed on buses and are treated no differently than anyone else.
Well, at least the blacks got to ride when the smoke had cleared; today's disenfranchised, cigarette smokers, got kicked clear off the bus. :>)
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