Posted on 11/03/2005 12:05:49 PM PST by doug from upland
I never thought I would be defending Bill Clinton on FreeRepublic. Mark this date as an historic moment. Clinton might have actually told the truth.
From the text of his Rosa Parks funeral speech (which, of course, he managed to make about himself)
CLINTON: I remember, as if it were yesterday, that fateful day 50 years ago. I was a 9-year-old southern white boy who rode a segregated bus every single day of my life. I sat in the front. Black folk sat in the back.
When Rosa showed us that black folks didn't have to sit in the back anymore, two of my friends and I, who strongly approved of what she had done, decided we didn't have to sit in the front anymore.
(APPLAUSE)
It was just a tiny gesture by three ordinary kids. But that tiny gesture was repeated over and over again millions and millions of times in the hearts and minds of children, their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents, proving that she did help to set us all free.
In 1953, Clinton moved to Hot Springs and started school at St. John's Catholic. He then attended Ramble Elementary. He was nine years old when Rosa Parks defied the law on the bus.
I spoke with a very nice lady at the Hot Springs School District. Ramble Elementary has been replaced with a newer school, Park Elementary. The original Ramble building still stands and is a threatre.
There were no school buses. Kids either walked, were taken by parents, or took a city bus to school.
It was a diverse neighborhood. My source mentioned blacks, Lituanians, and Jews. Kids just seemed to all get along.
The source talked to another man in her office who, like her, grew up and went to Hot Springs schools at the same time as Bill Clinton. She and her friends would sometimes join the black kids in the back of the bus. She thought it was the right thing to do.
It is entirely possible that Clinton did join a few of his friends and sit in the back of the bus after hearing about Rosa Parks. Let's give him credit for a possible truth telling episode.
NOTE: He still, however, is a liar, a perjurer, a subornerer of perjury, an obstructor of justice, a threat to national security, a rapist, a threat to witnesses, a horrible and completely phony human being, and an impeached failed president with an evil and dangerous wife.
So Bill Clinton went to the back of the bus because there were chicks there. Now it make sense.
LOL
You're a good egg, doug.
Our town didn't have school busses either. We either walked or rode the public busses with a school pass.
Even a stopped clock is right at least two times a day. S***happens, even when your not looking!
Who the hell cares any more what this irrelevant namesake-for-a-Chinese condom has to say?
If he actually did this, he was probably just widening the circle of female classmates available to him.
Thank you for the investigation. FreeRepublic imho should be a source of truth and not knee-jerk assumptions; by confirming that this statement is likely true, we build up credibility for when we claim another statement is false.
Slick maybe went to the back of the bus, we all did and it wasn't to show solidarity, it was to lock lips.
I was a 9-year-old southern white boy
That much is true.
He remembers the day? Would an arrest of a black woman in Alabama would make the news in Arkansas? I doubt if it made the national news until well into the bus boycott.
-Eric
I know how you feel. The slight chance is such a startling development, that it must be noted.
What school did he go to when he was 9?
What was the racial breakdown at that school?
Did he actually ride a bus?
Yea, I'm sure it was seared, SEARED, into his memory.....
Well, it's a short 15 minutes of fame for these two but so be it....It's Bubba Village territory.
Lots of progress since then, now cities in the South, like New Orleans, have school buses, but no drivers.
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