Who Will Follow Rosa?

TownHall ^ | 10/28/2005 | Tony Snow

[saveliberty]

Good morning, all! Here's your Tony Snow article ping :-)

[SE Mom]

Thanks SL- very nice piece- Tony puts the whole thing into perspective, doesn't he?

[Heatseeker]

I agree about Condi, but here's another superlatively intelligent lady who's originally from Alabama:

[brwnsuga]

I admire both of these ladies greatly.

[saveliberty]

:-) You're welcome, Mom! Yes he does put it into perspective.

[sure_fine]

Who will follow Rosa?... I think this gif shows you what kind WON'T follow

[ajolympian2004]

Hi,

I added 'editorial' to the topics so Tony's column will get the exposure here at FR that it deserves.

[saveliberty]

:-) Thank you!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Pogo would have at least been more a more intellectually honest leader than todays cast of clowns.

[tiredoflaundry]

Excellent article.

[saveliberty]

:-)

[saveliberty]

:-) Thanks, but I did no work here.

[OldFriend]

Thankfully for the most part, American blacks don't need a leader. They manage to go to work, raise their families, and just keep on keeping on.

They certainly know by now that the race hustlers are not representing them.

There are wonderful black role models in each community and those that chose to take the low road pay the price.

[saveliberty]

There are wonderful role models who do pay the price. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Janice Rogers Brown -- they are demonized as "uncle Toms" when the reality is that they are exercising their right to self determination.

[OldFriend]

And no white people are demonized?

I consider those you mentioned as good role models. They mentor others, change lives, and give hope to others who have the will to do well.

You are suggesting that black people can't succeed without a leader? They need national role models?

I just don't buy that when it comes down to individual families.

Perhaps in the media world, name calling and reviling has an effect, but in the homes, it's pretty much up to the family.

They choose the path regardless of who is deemed a 'leader'.

[saveliberty]

Dear OldFriend, I think that we may be in a communication loop as I did not intend the inferences that you note.

I apologize for the confusion-- I was trying to respond to this comment

There are wonderful black role models in each community and those that chose to take the low road pay the price.

Of course families make a difference. I didn't think that I was saying that they didn't. I wanted to give credit to people (and the list could be too long to post here) who get demonized for failing to comply with the conventional wisdom.

[OldFriend]

You have freepmail.

[AppyPappy]

Shoot, a lady in Roanoke Va did it 10 years before Rosa.

Prelude to justice


Almost a decade before Rosa Parks' brave stand, Roanoke's Margie Jumper refused to yield her seat.


By Shanna Flowers
The Roanoke Times




A decade before Rosa Parks took her stand against the injustice and indignity of segregation, Roanoke's Margie Jumper took hers.

Jumper's public act of defiance wasn't on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus but on a streetcar near downtown Roanoke. Like Parks, Jumper would not give up her seat to a white man.

"I refused to get up," Jumper, now 91, said this week of the incident, which happened nearly 60 years ago. "I felt like I had the right to sit anywhere anyone else did."

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/38017

[saveliberty]

Thanks for the link. Did you read Thomas Sowell yesterday?

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/27/173033.html