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Was Rosa Parks was selected for her role after Claudette Colvin deemed not a good icon?
Posted on 3/6/22 at 6:39 am
Posted on 3/6/22 at 6:39 am
So I was looking at dumb memes and their reactions online. One was about the 9 year old girl who and at the Beijing Olympics was really lip syncing for another girl China didn't see as pretty enough for the ceremony. It was messed up. I read some comments. In the comments someone said "that's the same thing the NAACP did with Rosa Parks".
Well that comment was intriguing so I clicked on the discussion.
After reading I went on a deep dive.
It's a fact that 9 months before Rosa Parks' incident a black teenager was arrested for and sued the police and city over the same issue. The NAACP dropped her case because she was a pregnant black teen and not a good image. Rosa Parks was more blunt about it when asked.
So one of the biggest icons in recent history was just a stand in?
She was there to be arrested she wasn't the one whose feet hurt and really didn't want to get up, as we were told. I mean still the fight needed to happen. Actually it's likely true white people would have rallied less behind Claudette. Still a very odd footnote that was skipped in history class in Feburary.
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Well that comment was intriguing so I clicked on the discussion.
After reading I went on a deep dive.
It's a fact that 9 months before Rosa Parks' incident a black teenager was arrested for and sued the police and city over the same issue. The NAACP dropped her case because she was a pregnant black teen and not a good image. Rosa Parks was more blunt about it when asked.
So one of the biggest icons in recent history was just a stand in?
She was there to be arrested she wasn't the one whose feet hurt and really didn't want to get up, as we were told. I mean still the fight needed to happen. Actually it's likely true white people would have rallied less behind Claudette. Still a very odd footnote that was skipped in history class in Feburary.
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Posted on 3/6/22 at 6:45 am to Napoleon
Rosa was a pawn of Russian agents, fact.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 6:53 am to Napoleon
Yes, this is pretty common knowledge.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:19 am to Napoleon
She was first, but she was also a teenager at the time.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:23 am to Napoleon
At the time pregnant teenagers didn't have the acceptance that they do now. Rosa Parks was seen as a more respectable face of the boycott.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:42 am to Napoleon
quote:Don’t care, had sex
“was unmarried and pregnant”
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:45 am to Napoleon
It’s March, dude
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:47 am to Napoleon
“All Rosa Parks did was sit her black arse down”
Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:57 am to Napoleon
I wouldn’t call this common knowledge, but that’s more of an indictment of the average person’s education than it is reflective of an attempt at obfuscating the truth. For anyone whose education about the civil rights movement spent more than a paragraph on the bus boycott, it’s widely known that Rosa Parks’ arrest wasn’t an accident. Claudette’s arrest planted the seed for the idea, leaders in the movement developed a plan, Baton Rouge was chosen for a test run for a bus boycott, and when the variables were right, they set their trap with a trained member of the movement as bait. And as soon as the bait was taken, all the planning snapped into action.
If the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice, it’s rarely by accident.
If the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice, it’s rarely by accident.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 8:58 am to Napoleon
Considering how I have seen current media manipulate stories and gaslight history, who really knows what happened and how back in 1955
Posted on 3/6/22 at 9:19 am to Napoleon
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Parks did not originate the idea of protesting segregation with a bus sit-in. Those preceding her included Bayard Rustin in 1942,[48] Irene Morgan in 1946, Lillie Mae Bradford in 1951,[49] Sarah Louise Keys in 1952, and the members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle 1956 lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery for not giving up their bus seats months before Parks.
Parks also tried it a few times before it stuck with an arrest. her being arrested was a culmination of Montgomery city officials getting tired of the bus seat confrontations and protests and clamping down.
Rosa Parks is more legend than fact, but her arrest got its intended response nationally and did lead to awareness of what was going on in the South
Posted on 3/6/22 at 10:25 am to Napoleon
Yes.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 12:00 pm to Napoleon
And she still looks better than the hood rats of today.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 12:38 pm to Napoleon
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a well-planned operation, using many different dry-runs.
Colvin's arrest was one of those dry-runs. It proved that the drivers were willing to actually enforce the law.
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953 was to prove that the organization of rides would work and that sympathetic whites might even help out. ( Background of Baton Rouge Bus Boycott)
But, the game was in Montgomery. It had to be in Montgomery, as that city was where the Confederacy was created. Baton Rouge would never have had the same.
And, knowing that she would be arrested means that Rosa Parks was more brave than the narrative makes her.
JMHO.
Colvin's arrest was one of those dry-runs. It proved that the drivers were willing to actually enforce the law.
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953 was to prove that the organization of rides would work and that sympathetic whites might even help out. ( Background of Baton Rouge Bus Boycott)
But, the game was in Montgomery. It had to be in Montgomery, as that city was where the Confederacy was created. Baton Rouge would never have had the same.
And, knowing that she would be arrested means that Rosa Parks was more brave than the narrative makes her.
JMHO.
This post was edited on 3/6/22 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 3/6/22 at 1:09 pm to Napoleon
Interesting. Never heard of this.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 3:16 pm to Napoleon
Rosa Parks was a plant, sort of an entrapment type of setup.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 5:17 pm to Napoleon
quote:
It's a fact that 9 months before Rosa Parks' incident a black teenager was arrested for and sued the police and city over the same issue. The NAACP dropped her case because she was a pregnant black teen and not a good image.
AND… the father of this pregnant teen was a white man. A white man loved this oppressed young black girl.
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