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5 Myths about Rosa Parks, the woman who had almost a ‘biblical quality’
Washington Post ^ | 11/30/15 | Justin Taylor

Posted on 12/01/2015 2:51:51 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

....1. Rosa Parks sat in the whites-only section of the bus.

....2. If Rosa Parks had not moved, a white passenger would not have had a place to sit....

....3. This was Rosa Parks's first conflict with that bus driver.

....4. Rosa Parks refused to stand up because she was tired......

...5. Rosa Parks was the first black woman to exercise civil disobedience on a Montgomery bus.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: race; religion
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To: Original Lurker

“God, the average American is dumber than a sack of hammers..”

Let me see the hammers............: )


21 posted on 12/01/2015 3:18:23 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! What is that from?


22 posted on 12/01/2015 3:18:25 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Original Lurker
It was a staged event totally for the theatrics and the optics.

God, the average American is dumber than a sack of hammers..
God..!

So she needed to sit in the back of the bus in your estimation?
However it happened...planned, rehearsed or spur of the moment. That law/rule was vile.

23 posted on 12/01/2015 3:18:56 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: Talisker

Kabuki theater.

Pffffffffft!


24 posted on 12/01/2015 3:25:29 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Vaquero

The rule of law no longer applies..
The downward slide cannot be stopped..


25 posted on 12/01/2015 3:26:54 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: SoFloFreeper

Cruz answer on this
Me no likee

He knows better

Pure pander


26 posted on 12/01/2015 3:28:20 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: Original Lurker

Gullible is more like it and judging from this thread

Injustice against the highly maligned negro must always be addressed


27 posted on 12/01/2015 3:30:35 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Read the comments after the article, you would think racism has gotten worse in the last 50 years.


28 posted on 12/01/2015 3:33:54 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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To: DesertRhino
I agree, segregation was wrong from the start, as was slavery.

In fact as a man I would have insisted she remain in the seat and I would stand.

29 posted on 12/01/2015 3:37:02 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: SoFloFreeper

She was intensely political, had a long history as a lefty activist.

She was ASSIGNED that job by a COMMITTEE.

The right action? Yes.

Spontaneous? Yeah, like high Mass at St. Anthony’s Church, sure.

TOTALLY ORCHESTRATED.


30 posted on 12/01/2015 3:39:33 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Robert DeLong

Slavery was wrong as are punitive taxes..


31 posted on 12/01/2015 3:40:31 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Original Lurker

The rule of law that says a negro person is not a human being? Is that what you’re defending?

Why not worry about CRIMES. Like the brothers who shoot each other daily in Chicago and other cities. Or our sovereign borders that are neither. And that brings us to 10s of millions of illegals and legally admitted ( or otherwise) Islamic jihadists who need to be rounded up and shipped out or destroyed. Not because of racial differences but because of their purpose.....that of overthrowing the country

We have laws that need enforcing not racist Jim Crown crap.


32 posted on 12/01/2015 3:40:41 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: Vaquero

It was a great story, the right story for its time and I salute Rosa. Masterfully handled by the NAACP - they were not who they eventually became. A fine American heroine.


33 posted on 12/01/2015 3:42:24 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Barbershop.


34 posted on 12/01/2015 3:42:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Original Lurker

Especially when punitive taxes are directed only at a segment of the population.


36 posted on 12/01/2015 3:47:51 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Original Lurker
Now the black college crybabies want their own section of the bus (again) so they don't have to sit with the privileged white.
37 posted on 12/01/2015 3:51:20 PM PST by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: wardaddy

“Injustice against the highly maligned negro must always be addressed”

I’m wondering if you support the legislated segregation of bus seating, separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, etc. enough to try to bring them back again?


38 posted on 12/01/2015 3:52:16 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: SamAdams76

Your post is lovely. It is a conservative thing to give a person the seat they paid for and exceedingly kind to give a seat to a lady. As the police officer said when he arrested her and she asked why he was doing this: “I don’t know.” Even he was tired and bewildered by this crap.


39 posted on 12/01/2015 3:54:13 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: dfwgator

Thanks.


40 posted on 12/01/2015 3:58:02 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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