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Fight Property Rights Abuse (Eminent Domain, Blacks, and Montgomery)
Tuscaloosa News ^
| April 26, 2009
| David T. Beito
Posted on 04/26/2009 6:31:01 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:36:52 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: Captain Kirk
“In 1955, Rosa Parks took on the whole system of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus.”
Why do we believe in silly myths like this? She didn’t take on the system. Other people did it in her name. I’m sure all she wanted to do was sit down.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:36:53 PM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: Captain Kirk
And not one man stands in the way of the government dragon. This issue should be a front and center issue for conservatives and Americans. That it isn’t is much like the canary in the mine. The canary is dead.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:38:43 PM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(It is better to to get outside of the box than to just think outside of it.)
To: Captain Kirk
"Peera, who had to flee from his native East Africa after Idi Amin expelled its Asian population, does not easily intimidate and is extremely determined to fight property abuse in Alabama." I wonder why he didn't stay and fight the injustices of Ida Amin?
Of all the places in the world he could have gone, he winds up in Montgomery, Alabama?
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:45:40 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Tublecane
In 1955, Rosa Parks took on the whole system of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus.
Why do we believe in silly myths like this? She didnt take on the system. Other people did it in her name. Im sure all she wanted to do was sit down. Under the circumstances of the time, I really doubt that *all* she wanted was to sit down. That may have been the driver, but this was an act that defied existing law. There were likely other such acts, but this one took spark.
OTOH, I could be persuaded: Can you back up your surmise that all she wanted was to sit down and nothing more? Given the high profile of the situation there must be countervailing documentation.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:46:32 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
To: sionnsar
Well, actually, the truth behind Rosa Parks was that her act was NOT a spontaneous one, as the carefully constructed mythology would have it.
She was in fact a trained activist.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:53:13 PM PDT
by
supremedoctrine
(The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity---Yeats)
To: supremedoctrine
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:57:17 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
To: sionnsar
“Can you back up your surmise that all she wanted was to sit down and nothing more?”
I don’t know, she could have been a trained activist. I’m simply judging from the way the story is told in the history books. They say she didn’t set out to start a boycott. It’s true that she defied the law, and therefore it was technically involved in civil disobediance. But the way the story’s told, she was disobedient in order to sit down, not to take on “the system”.
Myu understanding was the professional activists took it from there. Now, if she was previosly part of the movement, and her defiance had been orchestrated, that would be another matter. I’m no expert. All I’m saying is, even according to the liberal myth, she wasn’t the one taking on the system. She only took on one bus driver.
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:05:27 PM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: Tublecane
She didnt take on the system. Other people did it in her name. Im sure all she wanted to do was sit down.
I thought she was a secretary for the NAACP - and an activist. That she was hand picked for her age / gender and knew what going to transpire when took that "stand" (irony intended).
Can anyone else verify that?
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:11:17 PM PDT
by
gatechie
To: Captain Kirk
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:23:01 PM PDT
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
To: gatechie
Per Wikipedia . . .
"At the time of her action, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for workers' rights and racial equality. Nonetheless, she took her action as a private citizen "tired of giving in".
Nonetheless, her actions were as private citizen . . . . who just happened to take notes at NAACP meetings. But, one role has nothing to do with the other. Me thinks thou dost protest too much.
I draw a different conclusion from these two facts. I belive that she knew what she was doing. This belief has no bearing on whether I think the law was right/wrong. However, inventing storybook, Hollywood-esqe motives, gives a misleading spin on what really happened.
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:28:25 PM PDT
by
gatechie
To: gatechie
Rosa Parks was arrested and spent some time inside a jail cell. I do not think she was an activist, but there was some controversy. There were two other women that went before her, so she wasn't the first. One was an single mother and one may have been a prostitute, and Someone was looking for the perfect victim to make a hero of the civil rights movement.
Someone was looking for an angel figure to galvanize the civil rights movement, someone with a head for politics -- Richard Nixon. He decided that Rosa Parks, widow of a veteran, a working, older woman, who had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, was the perfect image for the civil rights movement.
She wasn't the first to give up her seat, but Nixon knew we needed a shining hero with a halo to make this work. So he cheated and picked Mrs. Parks. Because Nixon, a Republican, wanted it to suceed and he knew how to play politics. Tricky Dick used his eeeeevil sneaky ways to eliminate the Jim Crow laws. I will always respect him for this.
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:52:41 PM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
To: Captain Kirk
My Mama was active in what is now called “civil rights” back when it was just called “the right thing to do.”
And this, in the city of my birth, is just plain injustice. Why isn’t Southern Poverty Law involved? Their offices are right in town.
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:07:30 PM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(The Constitution & Bill of Rights stand as a whole. Remove any part & nullify the whole.)
To: supremedoctrine
She was a trained activist for the communist party.
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posted on
04/27/2009 4:35:16 AM PDT
by
seemoAR
To: HighlyOpinionated
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To: commish; newstart; Notsofast; rightinalabama; bushhog; iloveclhjr; Alas Babylon!; chasio649
Property Rights in Alabama bump
To: Captain Kirk
HMM nowhere in the article is it mentioned that the Mayor’s office and city council are dominated by Liberal Lefty Democrats elected by these same people who are whining about how the city treats them.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:11:58 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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