Yeah, what may have been disgusting previously, is a downright criminal movement now! It's just another "Progressive" movement!
Staged? You have no evidence of that whatsoever unless you can produce film evidence.....
Assuming your premise, are you saying that segregation and racist discrimination was non existent?
Rosa Parks was indeed a black icon and set off a movement that eventually rid our country of a disgusting way of life.............
disgusting way of life.............
Crony capitalism is just as disgusting.. Just as disgusting..
It will be the venue that turns America into HELL!!
Yeah, what may have been disgusting previously, is a downright criminal movement now! It's just another "Progressive" movement!
I think the primary point is that Rosa Parks was not just "somebody" and the event didn't "just happen". There was an effort at the time to bring attention to the segregation of the buses. Black people wanted the situation addressed. They found a way to address it.
From Wikipedia:
Black activists had begun to build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as Advisor. Colvin's legal case formed the core of Browder v. Gale, which ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott when the Supreme Court ruled on it in December, 1956.
Method of segregation on Montgomery buses
Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back. On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard. National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott.
In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic.
Nothing I'm posting is meant as a criticism of Rosa Parks. Segregation was wrong. But the events that made her famous were intentional -- people wanted the situation fixed, and they found a way to fix it.
We may not want to call it "staged", but it was supposed to happen.
In “Eyes on the Prize”, Julian Bond indicates it was staged. Parks was an activist, an officeholder in the Civil Rights Movement and prior to her refusal to give up the seathad been involved in vetting the previous candidate, who was rejected because she was pregnant out of wedlock.
Additionally the civil rights organizations were prepped and ready to roll with the boycott campaign. They were just looking for the pretext, Parks knew it was needed and did her part in engineering it.
The question though is “so what?”. The segregation laws were evil and needed to go. The use of civil disobedience to make that happen was an example of phenominal planning and execution in support of a defined and just goal. Not to mention that like many of those who engage in civil disobedience Parks knew the personal consequences, accepted them and was held accountable for them.
So the fact that it was staged does nothing to detract from the general effort or Park’s role in it. It deserves to be understood as what it was and studied.
Capitalism is not so disgusting. She was a hardcore Communist agitator, who used the weapon of racial guilt to set a precedent that led us to where we are today. this was just one of their fronts of attack, another was sexual inequality, another Christianity, and financial inequality, an orchestrated attack on capitalism by preying on guilt and fomenting riot among the "oppressed". Hope you are happy.
I was in school when the schools in were desegregated and experienced firsthand the ensuing mayhem. It wasn't the whites in my area who started that, and I recall a lifelong friend who refused to go into the same classroom with me because I was white. Thankfully, there were two classrooms for that grade that year, and he went into the other.
Like any protest, failure to consider beforehand how the impact of the protest could be maximized, even into an iconic moment, would be wasteful at best.
What is the point of protest if it never makes the news or can be downplayed?
"Thousands" of TEA party protesters found this out when the media divided their numbers by 100 or more in reporting.
Blacks had been in the trenches on this for a long time when Rosa got on the bus.
It was staged. Period. And, I never said racism was non existent.
And replaced it with another disgusting way of life.