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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: IK3 on October 24, 2005, 11:17:50 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4373794.stm
She's brave
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It's a damn shame... on her last ride she's gonna have to be in the back.
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A TRUE American, god bless her!! Will be seeing her soon in Heaven!!
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Rosa
R.I.P!
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Hangtime :P
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She was a leader of the civil rights movement and she deserves respect, however I hope no one is of the illusion that her bus ride in the front was a brave spur-of-the-moment decision.
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Nah..she was just tired right? ;)
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Rosa Parks, a life well lived and a legacy far greater than the vast majority of us will ever leave.
Originally posted by RightF00T
Nah..she was just tired right? ;)
Her own words:
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day--No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in...I'd like people to say I'm a person who always wanted to be free and wanted it not only for myself; freedom is for all human beings...I hope it will remind people how we struggled and what we had to go through, and that they'll be willing to continue to work for our freedom because we still have quite a long way to go."
-Rosa Parks
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yes IK3. Brave woman. Principled. Shames me.
hap
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the irony of her name.
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Damn shame. Another real American passes away.
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One of great Americans
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She was a leader of the civil rights movement and she deserves respect, however I hope no one is of the illusion that her bus ride in the front was a brave spur-of-the-moment decision.
It still took a lot of courage to be the one to do it.
Charon
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courage? how much jail time was she facin? sorry for not jumping on the "hero" bandwagon but i like to question history. she planned this ahead of time just as those people who sat in diners did. i dont think she should be singled out as a hero of the civil rights movement any more than the nameless people who stood shoulder to shoulder with Dr. King durring marches.
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sorry to be a buzzkill. i just dont buy into this whole "individual" thing when it concerns something that is changing the country.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
It's a damn shame... on her last ride she's gonna have to be in the back.
Thats a little uncalled for.
She did what she felt was right at the time Rosa
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Originally posted by Charon
It still took a lot of courage to be the one to do it.
Charon
Yes it did.
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Originally posted by SMIDSY
courage? how much jail time was she facin? sorry for not jumping on the "hero" bandwagon but i like to question history. she planned this ahead of time just as those people who sat in diners did. i dont think she should be singled out as a hero of the civil rights movement any more than the nameless people who stood shoulder to shoulder with Dr. King durring marches.
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sorry to be a buzzkill. i just dont buy into this whole "individual" thing when it concerns something that is changing the country.
Never ceases to amaze me how... 'naive' our young folks are. Rosa was at far more of a risk from a severe if not fatal beating from enraged white citizens than she was of 'jail time'. If a 'red neck billy' passenger had taken action on that bus immediately, beaten her and tossed her from the bus not one single person in that town would have made any particular note of the occurance and even if Rosa pressed charges for assault the case would not have made it before a judge before Rosa turned up dead in a shallow grave. As soon as the attention of the press became focused on the case she and her family were in extreme danger of their lives for many years afterwards.
Yah.. she had courage. Plenty of it.
SMIDSY, not knowing this is not your 'fault'. Thanks to the PC education system the context of the life of a black person in Jim Crow America is not touched upon at all in school. Fact is, if you were black and didn't pay proper respect to the white folks, you just wound up disappeared or found swinging from a tree. That was a fact of life in the south all the way up thru WWII.. and it's not something that's understood or even aknowledged today... but it's true.
Fartwinkle, the iorny of her last ride won't go unnoticed by the people that understood the gravity of her accomplishment.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Never ceases to amaze me how... 'naive' our young folks are. Rosa was at far more of a risk from a severe if not fatal beating from enraged white citizens than she was of 'jail time'. If a 'red neck billy' passenger had taken action on that bus immediately, beaten her and tossed her from the bus not one single person in that town would have made any particular note of the occurance and even if Rosa pressed charges for assault the case would not have made it before a judge before Rosa turned up dead in a shallow grave. As soon as the attention of the press became focused on the case she and her family were in extreme danger of their lives for many years afterwards.
Yah.. she had courage. Plenty of it.
SMIDSY, not knowing this is not your 'fault'. Thanks to the PC education system the context of the life of a black person in Jim Crow America is not touched upon at all in school. Fact is, if you were black and didn't pay proper respect to the white folks, you just wound up disappeared or found swinging from a tree. That was a fact of life in the south all the way up thru WWII.. and it's not something that's understood or even aknowledged today... but it's true.
Fartwinkle, the iorny of her last ride won't go unnoticed by the people that understood the gravity of her accomplishment.
Well put! S
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i understand that. unfortunately i tend to wander my viewpoints in mid paragraph. my VALID point is that she was not the only one risking a severe whoopin or worse. i just dont believe in idolizing individuals when there were many others doing the same thing.
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Rosa, RIP.