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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 6:58 am to The Spleen
Is it really? I never heard of this.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 6:59 am to Oilfieldbiology
Never heard of it either. But it makes sense.
Seems odd that her stuff wasn’t expunged until 2021 though.
Seems odd that her stuff wasn’t expunged until 2021 though.
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 7:24 am to The Spleen
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Yes, this is pretty common knowledge.
That is not common knowledge. It’s not taught in schools when kids learn about Rosa Parks
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:31 am to Upperdecker
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That is not common knowledge. It’s not taught in schools when kids learn about Rosa Parks
Wait what???... homie this is common knowledge... i knew this since i was a kid...
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:31 am to Oilfieldbiology
I wouldn’t say that it is common knowledge but it is well known for people who study the era. There are two ways of looking at it.
1. She was a pregnant teenager and the NAACP didn’t want to put her through the difficulties of being in the national spotlight and all of that while being a teen mom.
2. The NAACP didn’t think she was a good image for the movement.
Like most things the truth is probably a mix of the two of those
1. She was a pregnant teenager and the NAACP didn’t want to put her through the difficulties of being in the national spotlight and all of that while being a teen mom.
2. The NAACP didn’t think she was a good image for the movement.
Like most things the truth is probably a mix of the two of those
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:34 am to Upperdecker
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That is not common knowledge. It’s not taught in schools when kids learn about Rosa Parks
I learned that in high school in the 90s.
Sorry your history teachers were trash.
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Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:41 am to Strannix
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Rosa was a pawn of Russian agents, fact.
Rosa Parks attended the Highlander Folk School for communist training.
It was located on Monteagle Mountain in Grundy County, TN.
It was there because the rule on the mountain was, "mind your own business". For the same reason a man named Al Capone had a house about one mile down the road. People kept out of your business.
A man named Martin Luther King Jr. received his communist training there too.
Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, 1957. Highlander Research and Education Center.
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 7:47 am to Oilfieldbiology
i never heard of it - and I live in Alabama
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 8:45 am to Dr RC
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I learned that in high school in the 90s.
I went to high school in the 90s and we were given the impression that the Rosa Parks thing was organic and spontaneous. When I found out later in life that it was carefully engineered by Yankee Jews, it made me that much more disillusioned with social justice movements.
I think my experience is very typical of people my age.
Posted on 3/6/22 at 8:54 am to USMEagles
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When I found out later in life that it was carefully engineered by Yankee Jews, it made me that much more disillusioned with social justice movements.
I'm not sure why. I guess it's a nice fairy tale that entrenched power structures can routinely be toppled by dumb luck and chance, but that's not really reflective of reality. If anything, this is a great example of why organized, intentional campaigns are necessary.
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
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