Rosa Parks statue just unveiled

[AmyNation]

Rosa Parks became a symbol and her stand helped spark a turning point in history. It doesn't matter if someone did it before her, or if it was pre-planned.


The pettiness in this thread is pathetic.

She was a union working commie? Seriously Katz? Just when I think you can't sink any lower.

 

[Oldguy]

I don't care if she did it with full intent planned well in advance or if it just kind of happened because she was just plain tired.

I am glad she did it.

I am glad she got lots of coverage for it.

I am glad it ended up aiding the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa was the real deal.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[rightwinger]

Conservatives can counter with a statue of Bull Connor when they take over

Do you mean Bull Connor, the famous Alabama racist, who was also elected the Democratic National Committeeman for the state of Alabama in 1960?

Before you make a FOOL of yourself, brush up on your history. The vast majority of the racist governors and law enforcement people in the south during the civil rights movement, were DEMOCRATS.

You are either a LIAR BY OMISSION or an ignorant fool. I'll let you pick which one.

Where did I say anything other than that he was a Conservative icon ?

 

[Katzndogz]

Rosa Parks became a symbol and her stand helped spark a turning point in history. It doesn't matter if someone did it before her, or if it was pre-planned.


The pettiness in this thread is pathetic.

She was a union working commie? Seriously Katz? Just when I think you can't sink any lower.

You can't change history. Once you scrape away all the crap, there it is. rosa parks was a union organizer with the Textile Worker's Union which was heavily infiltrated with communists. She was also a secretary with the NAACP. She was not an uneducated seamstress with bunions on her feet. If rosa parks is going to be made into some kind of hero, the way Trotsky was a hero. Made. A creation of manufacture, of propaganda. Why? Because the truth would not be acceptable. They didn't need an executive sacrificial lamb, they needed a poor downtrodden black woman. So they made one.

If it wouldn't matter; if what parks did was so monumental that it would have been great no matter who did it, then just tell the truth and stop the lies.

 

[rightwinger]

Rosa Parks became a symbol and her stand helped spark a turning point in history. It doesn't matter if someone did it before her, or if it was pre-planned.


The pettiness in this thread is pathetic.

She was a union working commie? Seriously Katz? Just when I think you can't sink any lower.

Back then they called all civil rights protestors Commies

They couldn't acknowledge them for the American Patriots they were

 

[rightwinger]

Rosa Parks became a symbol and her stand helped spark a turning point in history. It doesn't matter if someone did it before her, or if it was pre-planned.


The pettiness in this thread is pathetic.

She was a union working commie? Seriously Katz? Just when I think you can't sink any lower.

You can't change history. Once you scrape away all the crap, there it is. rosa parks was a union organizer with the Textile Worker's Union which was heavily infiltrated with communists. She was also a secretary with the NAACP. She was not an uneducated seamstress with bunions on her feet. If rosa parks is going to be made into some kind of hero, the way Trotsky was a hero. Made. A creation of manufacture, of propaganda. Why? Because the truth would not be acceptable. They didn't need an executive sacrificial lamb, they needed a poor downtrodden black woman. So they made one.

If it wouldn't matter; if what parks did was so monumental that it would have been great no matter who did it, then just tell the truth and stop the lies.

Rosa Parks is as much an American Patriot as Paul Revere was

 

[Oldguy]

The rosa parks myth is just that. She was no seamstress. She was a union organizer with the Textile Worker's Union. She was also the secretary of the local NAACP. Not the simple seamstress as portrayed. She took an action deliberately designed to be provocative, because it was planned that way.

ROSA PARKS: Communist-trained Agitator | Newsnet 14

She planned this action, complete with fabricated back story, to call attention to the plight of black people forced to sit in the back of the bus. That's not so bad that it needs a myth to make her more sympathetic. They could have told the truth.

Does ANY of this "background noise" matter? What Rosa Parks did was monumental.

I don't care if it was pre-planned or not. She put her safety, and life, on the line in the name of civil rights and equality.

Rosa Parks a "communist"? Ridiculous.

Of course she was a communist. That's almost beside the point. Her act was planned, right along with the reaction to it. Right along with the planned marches and protests. Here they have all those marches and protests all ready to go. They just need a trigger. So they made one.

Sorta like Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell and George Bush lied and fabricated "evidence" to sway public opinion on invading Iraq?

Do you consider them American Heroes?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Rosa Parks became a symbol and her stand helped spark a turning point in history. It doesn't matter if someone did it before her, or if it was pre-planned.


The pettiness in this thread is pathetic.

She was a union working commie? Seriously Katz? Just when I think you can't sink any lower.

Back then they called all civil rights protestors Commies

They couldn't acknowledge them for the American Patriots they were

Stupid racist ignorant asshole jerks are still calling anyone on the left a "commie". All they have are their lies so they just keep repeating them.

 

[Katzndogz]

Conservatives can counter with a statue of Bull Connor when they take over

Do you mean Bull Connor, the famous Alabama racist, who was also elected the Democratic National Committeeman for the state of Alabama in 1960?

Before you make a FOOL of yourself, brush up on your history. The vast majority of the racist governors and law enforcement people in the south during the civil rights movement, were DEMOCRATS.

You are either a LIAR BY OMISSION or an ignorant fool. I'll let you pick which one.

Did you ever look into the history of Bull Connor? He was unbalanced, he had lost his election and was on his way out. The civil rights movement needed something to fight against, so they pushed his buttons knowing that before Connor was removed from office they could get their expected reaction. What was that reaction? It was an attack on children. Why was it an attack on children? Because that's the way the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned it. The civil rights movement was losing steam. They were losing support. They needed some major event to reignite the movement. What better than to use Bull Connor one last time before he was beyond their ability to manipulate.

A member of the Chamber of Commerce with political connections of his own, Gaston initially resented Martin Luther King's intrusion into local affairs during the 1963 Birmingham protests. Earlier that year, the city had adopted a different form of municipal government, and the notorious Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor lost his election bid. Consequently, Gaston and other businessmen wanted to give the new mayor an opportunity to address black grievances. Despite his unhappiness with elements of King's involvement, however, Gaston continued to provide financial support to Birmingham's black leaders. His ambivalence would change, however, after the violence of May 1963.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had designated May 2 as "D-Day," organizing hundreds of black schoolchildren who marched from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to protest segregation in downtown Birmingham. Retaining his power as Commissioner of Public Safety, Bull Connor arrested over six hundred children, but another thousand marched on May 3. The SCLC recruited youth marchers because their arrests would not destroy family incomes, but on May 3, the march erupted into violence. Connor ordered police dogs to attack the children, and fire hoses blasted marchers with enough pressure to strip the bark from trees.

After this violent attack on children Gaston and other undecided members of the black community fully backed the SCLC's demand for racial justice and equality in Birmingham. Gaston remained active in the black community long after the successful conclusion of the protests, as his numerous charitable commitments demonstrated. He died in 1996 at the age of 103.

A.G. Gaston Interview for Eyes on the Prize - Washington University Libraries; Film & Media Archive, Department of Special Collections

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Conservatives can counter with a statue of Bull Connor when they take over

Do you mean Bull Connor, the famous Alabama racist, who was also elected the Democratic National Committeeman for the state of Alabama in 1960?

Before you make a FOOL of yourself, brush up on your history. The vast majority of the racist governors and law enforcement people in the south during the civil rights movement, were DEMOCRATS.

You are either a LIAR BY OMISSION or an ignorant fool. I'll let you pick which one.

The GObP used to be the party of the working class. Only a real idiot (or a lying R politician running for office) would say they still are.

Times change. Try to keep up.

 

[rightwinger]

Conservatives can counter with a statue of Bull Connor when they take over

Do you mean Bull Connor, the famous Alabama racist, who was also elected the Democratic National Committeeman for the state of Alabama in 1960?

Before you make a FOOL of yourself, brush up on your history. The vast majority of the racist governors and law enforcement people in the south during the civil rights movement, were DEMOCRATS.

You are either a LIAR BY OMISSION or an ignorant fool. I'll let you pick which one.

Did you ever look into the history of Bull Connor? He was unbalanced, he had lost his election and was on his way out. The civil rights movement needed something to fight against, so they pushed his buttons knowing that before Connor was removed from office they could get their expected reaction. What was that reaction? It was an attack on children. Why was it an attack on children? Because that's the way the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned it. The civil rights movement was losing steam. They were losing support. They needed some major event to reignite the movement. What better than to use Bull Connor one last time before he was beyond their ability to manipulate.

A member of the Chamber of Commerce with political connections of his own, Gaston initially resented Martin Luther King's intrusion into local affairs during the 1963 Birmingham protests. Earlier that year, the city had adopted a different form of municipal government, and the notorious Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor lost his election bid. Consequently, Gaston and other businessmen wanted to give the new mayor an opportunity to address black grievances. Despite his unhappiness with elements of King's involvement, however, Gaston continued to provide financial support to Birmingham's black leaders. His ambivalence would change, however, after the violence of May 1963.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had designated May 2 as "D-Day," organizing hundreds of black schoolchildren who marched from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to protest segregation in downtown Birmingham. Retaining his power as Commissioner of Public Safety, Bull Connor arrested over six hundred children, but another thousand marched on May 3. The SCLC recruited youth marchers because their arrests would not destroy family incomes, but on May 3, the march erupted into violence. Connor ordered police dogs to attack the children, and fire hoses blasted marchers with enough pressure to strip the bark from trees.

After this violent attack on children Gaston and other undecided members of the black community fully backed the SCLC's demand for racial justice and equality in Birmingham. Gaston remained active in the black community long after the successful conclusion of the protests, as his numerous charitable commitments demonstrated. He died in 1996 at the age of 103.

A.G. Gaston Interview for Eyes on the Prize - Washington University Libraries; Film & Media Archive, Department of Special Collections

The Civil Rights movement sure knew how to play the racists didn't they?

Couldn't be more self destructive than to send attack dogs against children

 

[Katzndogz]

The democrats used to be the party of the working class. My parents and grandparents were proud democrats. The democrats no longer represent the working class, they represent the dependent class.

 

[rightwinger]

Hero? ........ Nope

Just a black woman who had bunions on her feet and wanted to sit down.........

She didn't even have bunions. She wasn't even a seamstress. It was all a lie because no one would sympathize with a union executive or an NAACP secretary.

She paid for a bus ticket just like any other passenger and was ordered to give her seat to someone (a white man) who was considered her superior

She was a true patriot making a stand against tyranny

 

[Mad Scientist]

She was a true patriot making a stand against tyranny

So you admit there CAN BE Tyranny?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Hero? ........ Nope

Just a black woman who had bunions on her feet and wanted to sit down.........

She didn't even have bunions. She wasn't even a seamstress. It was all a lie because no one would sympathize with a union executive or an NAACP secretary.

She paid for a bus ticket just like any other passenger and was ordered to give her seat to someone (a white man) who was considered her superior

She was a true patriot making a stand against tyranny

As we've seen so often here, there are some who disagree.

The good news is those disgusting despicable unspeakable racist scum are getting voted down.

 

[rightwinger]

She was a true patriot making a stand against tyranny

So you admit there CAN BE Tyranny?

Not only that

But tyranny can be defeated without guns

 

[IlarMeilyr]

She was a true patriot making a stand against tyranny

So you admit there CAN BE Tyranny?

Not only that

But tyranny can be defeated without guns

Sometimes, perhaps.

Other times, not so much.

 

[rightwinger]

So you admit there CAN BE Tyranny?

Not only that

But tyranny can be defeated without guns

Sometimes, perhaps.

Other times, not so much.

In our history there was never as great a justification for armed insurrection against tyranny than the Civil Rights struggle

However, they correctly realized that violence would beget violence and that they would be proclaimed the villain and would be forcefully put down

Instead, they accepted the beatings, jailings, bombings, lynching, spitting and whatever else was thrown at them

It took immense courage and dignity to turn the other cheek to an aggressor and allow the wrath of the public to be directed against the aggressors

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Not only that

But tyranny can be defeated without guns

Sometimes, perhaps.

Other times, not so much.

In our history there was never as great a justification for armed insurrection against tyranny than the Civil Rights struggle

However, they correctly realized that violence would beget violence and that they would be proclaimed the villain and would be forcefully put down

Instead, they accepted the beatings, jailings, bombings, lynching, spitting and whatever else was thrown at them

It took immense courage and dignity to turn the other cheek to an aggressor and allow the wrath of the public to be directed against the aggressors

What you SAID was that tyranny can be defeated without guns. Showing an example where that has proved to be more or less true does not mean that it can always be defeated without guns.

 

[rightwinger]

Sometimes, perhaps.

Other times, not so much.

In our history there was never as great a justification for armed insurrection against tyranny than the Civil Rights struggle

However, they correctly realized that violence would beget violence and that they would be proclaimed the villain and would be forcefully put down

Instead, they accepted the beatings, jailings, bombings, lynching, spitting and whatever else was thrown at them

It took immense courage and dignity to turn the other cheek to an aggressor and allow the wrath of the public to be directed against the aggressors

What you SAID was that tyranny can be defeated without guns. Showing an example where that has proved to be more or less true does not mean that it can always be defeated without guns.

Our history shows armed insurrections will be forcefully put down and those involved will be shot or jailed. Our Constitution provides a mechanism to peacefully resolve your grievances with the Government