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(Wikipedia) Hero On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks told whitey to STFU   (en.wikipedia.org) divider line 79
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2wolves [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:25:47 PM
She... occupied a bus seat.
 
James! [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:32:40 PM
And was promptly pepper sprayed to the cheers of keyboard commandos across America!
 
Demetrius [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:42:30 PM
2wolves: She... occupied a bus seat.

Then she got all 'uppity'. I guess her and Michele have a lot in common. Right, Rush?
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:44:36 PM
She got arrested for it. I guess that makes her protest invalid and we never passed the Civil Rights Act.
 
Gonz [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:45:08 PM
The municipal buses in San Antonio have a tribute to Rosa on the front seat. I never sit there- I think that seat should be reserved for a working woman with tired feet.
 
Krymson Tyde [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:48:26 PM
Gonz: The municipal buses in San Antonio have a tribute to Rosa on the front seat. I never sit there- I think that seat should be reserved for a working woman with tired feet.

A hooker that's had a long day?
 
Gonz [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:51:41 PM
Krymson Tyde: Gonz: The municipal buses in San Antonio have a tribute to Rosa on the front seat. I never sit there- I think that seat should be reserved for a working woman with tired feet.

A hooker that's had a long day?

That's fine by me. Hooking is an honest profession, even if it's not legal. They're providing a service where there's a demand.
 
Monkey2 [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:56:42 PM
I sat in Rosa Parks' lap when I was a kid. She didn't call me Whitey and didn't tell me to STFU. She asked me if I enjoyed school.

/True story
//I am a Whitey
///Got a kiss on the cheek from the most famous person I've ever met
////CSB
 
James! [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 12:59:56 PM
Monkey2: I sat in Rosa Parks' lap when I was a kid. She didn't call me Whitey and didn't tell me to STFU. She asked me if I enjoyed school.

/True story
//I am a Whitey
///Got a kiss on the cheek from the most famous person I've ever met
////CSB

You sat on her? You monster. She's a crusader for civil rights and you just knocked her down and sat on her chest? I can't believe the depths you've stooped to. You should be ashamed.

/kidding, that is cool.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:00:42 PM
Not to lessen what Rosa Parks did, but she wasn't the first. Claudette Colvin did it 9 months before Rosa Parks, but the Civil Rights leaders at the time thought she wasn't good enough to be used as a test case against the bus segregation policies.
 
Monkey2 [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:02:42 PM
James!: Monkey2: I sat in Rosa Parks' lap when I was a kid. She didn't call me Whitey and didn't tell me to STFU. She asked me if I enjoyed school.

/True story
//I am a Whitey
///Got a kiss on the cheek from the most famous person I've ever met
////CSB

You sat on her? You monster. She's a crusader for civil rights and you just knocked her down and sat on her chest? I can't believe the depths you've stooped to. You should be ashamed.

/kidding, that is cool.

I left out the part about "knocking her down" in the name of artistic license. Seriously though, she was a very sweet woman. I'll never forget how nice she was to me, I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:03:17 PM
If I remember correctly, the Civil Rights Leaders didn't push Claudette Colvin's act (which was done when she was 15, so doubly brave for her) because she was young and dark-skinned whereas Rosa was respected and lighter-skinned. So, here we are, 50 years later and nobody remembers Claudette Colvin, but everybody remembered Rosa Parks.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:06:32 PM
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Claudette Colvin

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Claudette Colvin when she was 15
 
ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:10:01 PM
RexTalionis: If I remember correctly, the Civil Rights Leaders didn't push Claudette Colvin's act (which was done when she was 15, so doubly brave for her) because she was young and dark-skinned whereas Rosa was respected and lighter-skinned. So, here we are, 50 years later and nobody remembers Claudette Colvin, but everybody remembered Rosa Parks.

Colvin wasn't chosen because she was 15 and pregnant. They wanted someone who could easily stand up to criticism, so they picked Parks, who was an NAACP secretary. They also didn't choose Colvin because they wanted to directly challenge the bus segregation and Colvin was arrested for disorderly conduct for shouting civil rights slogans at the police
 
Aarontology [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:22:21 PM
#OCCUPYMONTGOMERY
 
penthesilea [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:22:51 PM
Good kids book about Claudette Colvin:

here Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (new window)

or here Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (new window)

Every step forward is important and shouldn't be forgotten.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:37:09 PM
ArkAngel: RexTalionis: If I remember correctly, the Civil Rights Leaders didn't push Claudette Colvin's act (which was done when she was 15, so doubly brave for her) because she was young and dark-skinned whereas Rosa was respected and lighter-skinned. So, here we are, 50 years later and nobody remembers Claudette Colvin, but everybody remembered Rosa Parks.

Colvin wasn't chosen because she was 15 and pregnant. They wanted someone who could easily stand up to criticism, so they picked Parks, who was an NAACP secretary. They also didn't choose Colvin because they wanted to directly challenge the bus segregation and Colvin was arrested for disorderly conduct for shouting civil rights slogans at the police

Wasn't there also another girl? She had the same kind of problems as Colvin, so they waited on her too.
 
ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 01:44:33 PM
It is also worth noting that the a number of bus companies did not want to implement these laws. They were afraid (rightfully so) of pissing off the black community, who made up the majority of bus passengers. It was only after the state started arresting their drivers for refusing to enforce it that they capitulated.
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 02:12:27 PM
Monkey2: I sat in Rosa Parks' lap when I was a kid. She didn't call me Whitey and didn't tell me to STFU. She asked me if I enjoyed school.

/True story
//I am a Whitey
///Got a kiss on the cheek from the most famous person I've ever met
////CSB

Did you refuse to get up and go to the back?
 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 02:19:27 PM
ArkAngel: It is also worth noting that the a number of bus companies did not want to implement these laws

You know who else claimed they were just following orders?
 
gopher321
2011-12-01 03:47:19 PM
...and Farkers everywhere find something to mock/degrade her about it.


/kudos, lady
//stand up to The Man
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 03:50:16 PM
gopher321: ...and Farkers everywhere find something to mock/degrade her about it.


/kudos, lady
//stand up to The Man

But if she had been standing up, there would have been no problem!
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 03:57:00 PM
gopher321: ...and Farkers everywhere find something to mock/degrade her about it.


/kudos, lady
//stand up to The Man

Has someone photoshopped her getting pepper sprayed yet? Or for that matter done it with any of the Civil Rights protests?
 
TravisBickle62
2011-12-01 04:00:15 PM
I would buy her all the skrimps in the world
 
carnifex2005
2011-12-01 04:01:05 PM
FirstNationalBastard: Monkey2: I sat in Rosa Parks' lap when I was a kid. She didn't call me Whitey and didn't tell me to STFU. She asked me if I enjoyed school.

/True story
//I am a Whitey
///Got a kiss on the cheek from the most famous person I've ever met
////CSB

Did you refuse to get up and go to the back?

i.imgur.com
 
FNG [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 04:02:08 PM
*thatsracist.gif*
 
TommyymmoT [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 04:02:58 PM
Biatch stole my seat!
 
dualplains
2011-12-01 04:03:00 PM
I heard that Texas text book publishers have reluctantly included her story in their history books, but they put it waaaaay in the back.
 
itsfullofstars
2011-12-01 04:03:13 PM
upload.wikimedia.org
Rosa was kind-a hot.
 
HotWingConspiracy
2011-12-01 04:03:44 PM
Whitey has been trying to kill public transportation ever since.
 
Broad111
2011-12-01 04:03:51 PM
and because of her sacrifice we were given the best trump card in all of Apples to Apples
 
Rapmaster2000
2011-12-01 04:04:35 PM
Let's not reward this lawbreaker. There were clearly laws and this criminal chose to break those laws because she did not want to follow the law. I think it's a sad statement on modern society that we are supposed to revere this lawbreaker. Look at all the problems in the world today with thugs walking around town with their pants hanging off their asses. They probably think that breaking our indecent exposure laws will make them famous too. I think that's sad.
 
funk_soul_bubby
2011-12-01 04:05:22 PM
 
Gergesa
2011-12-01 04:05:28 PM
Where is that eyehateidiots guy? In a previous rosa parks thread insisted that the civil rights movement was a conspiracy masterminded wealthy family like the rockerfellers so that the populace would be unable to unite against them.

His post was a fascinating study in paranoid delusion.
 
JonnyG
2011-12-01 04:05:54 PM
No big deal. She was far from the first person to do what she did. Right place, right time.

5 minutes earlier and we'd have a civil rights hero named Tyrone.
 
ds_4815
2011-12-01 04:06:11 PM
Broad111: and because of her sacrifice we were given the best trump card in all of Apples to Apples

Tied w/ Helen Keller.
 
HailRobonia
2011-12-01 04:06:28 PM
The tragedy is that even though Rosa Parks discovered radium, she didn't know the dangers of radioactivity and died from radiation poisonion.
 
TravisBickle62
2011-12-01 04:06:44 PM
Rapmaster2000: Let's not reward this lawbreaker. There were clearly laws and this criminal chose to break those laws because she did not want to follow the law. I think it's a sad statement on modern society that we are supposed to revere this lawbreaker. Look at all the problems in the world today with thugs walking around town with their pants hanging off their asses. They probably think that breaking our indecent exposure laws will make them famous too. I think that's sad.

crappy troll attempt, way too transparant
 
Contrabulous Flabtraption [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 04:07:01 PM
Uninteresting Fact: This is in Fresno, CA
farm3.static.flickr.com
 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache
2011-12-01 04:07:46 PM
Good. Whitey needed to shut up.
 
Rapmaster2000
2011-12-01 04:07:56 PM
TravisBickle62: Rapmaster2000: Let's not reward this lawbreaker. There were clearly laws and this criminal chose to break those laws because she did not want to follow the law. I think it's a sad statement on modern society that we are supposed to revere this lawbreaker. Look at all the problems in the world today with thugs walking around town with their pants hanging off their asses. They probably think that breaking our indecent exposure laws will make them famous too. I think that's sad.

crappy troll attempt, way too transparant

But I didn't even get to the rap music part yet!
 
zipdog
2011-12-01 04:08:19 PM
I'm white, so I demand that my comment to be at the front of the thread.
 
Bad_Seed
2011-12-01 04:08:47 PM
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to break the law and obstruct white people's bus seats.
 
Dr._Michael_Hfuhruhurr
2011-12-01 04:09:02 PM
My Grandfather started the whole Civil Rights movement that day.

By telling her to get out of his seat.
 
bbcard1
2011-12-01 04:10:07 PM
I honestly think she got more credit for being tired and pissed off than anyone in history. Good for her, I guess. Good things came from it.
 
moops
2011-12-01 04:12:47 PM
reason.com

"Bus companies should have the right to decide where people sit on their property."
 
DROxINxTHExWIND [TotalFark]
2011-12-01 04:13:23 PM
zipdog: I'm white, so I demand that my comment to be at the front of the thread.

Nice grammar. No wonder the master race is having problems lately.
 
KrispyKritter
2011-12-01 04:13:58 PM
Gonz: The municipal buses in San Antonio have a tribute to Rosa on the front seat. I never sit there- I think that seat should be reserved for a working woman with tired feet.

you're a good egg.
 
piperTom
2011-12-01 04:20:26 PM
Subby is racist, unlike Rosa Parks. It wasn't "whitey" that was told to shut up; it was racists and bigots. Believe it or not, there were many white people supporting the civil rights movement.
 
RedEmily
2011-12-01 04:24:50 PM
Yeah, STFU Whitey.
 
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