[SamuraiScot]

“what a lot of people don’t realize is that that was a government-owned, government-run bus, and the only way that racism was able to go on for so long was the government was putting it into place.”

Interesting. Also false.

Dennis Kimbro, a great speaker who is today an authority on black entrepreneurship, used to write for me. He interviewed a black businessman who had been involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. When word got around that Rosa Parks had refused to move to the back of the bus, etc., a group of local black businessmen came to Martin Luther King, Jr.--the organizer of the boycott. The men told King they had made an offer to buy the bus company involved, which was private. The company had agreed to the offer.

As the entrepreneur put it to Kimbro, "We could sit where we wanted, because it would be our bus!"

King would have none of it. He pleaded with the black businessmen until he had convinced them not to buy the company. He wanted to make this a government issue, not solve the problem.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Thanks for the history lesson. I did not know that.

[the OlLine Rebel]

The only problem is, WHO demanded that blacks sit in the back?

Just because it’s private doesn’t mean the fascists aren’t making laws they must follow.

Was it city or state ordinance that caused the BOTB or was it the company’s choice?