If Rosa Parks had done today what she did then, the MSM would be

[zbdent]

painting her as a terrorist, and Faux News would have been calling for her to be shipped off to Gitmo.

Seems like they treated someone else who decided to "buck the system" in a similar fashion lately . . . (Sheehan)

[sam sarrha]

1. actually i heard the story went that the bus was basically empty, and she

and she was in the middle, a white guy came in and sat down in the front and told her to go to her "place" in the back where there were several black people.

i did have ht Honor of meeting Rosa Parks on a train to Seatle.. in 1978.

[zbdent]

4. Bill Press show reported that the bus was filled up, and she was in

"the correct section", a.k.a. the back (black) of the bus.

The law stated that, if the all the seats were taken, then a white person could go to the black section and force a black person to relinquish their seat. This is what the white man tried to do.

Rosa Parks refused, and was arrested.

[wtmusic]

2. Yep

In 50 years we'll probably have some GOP idiots unveiling a statue of Sheehan. :eyes:

[stopbush]

3. "In a blatant disregard for the rights of a corporate entity - the bus

company - the malcontent Rosa "Pravda" Parks bit the hand that feeds her, insisting that having her own seat on the bus wasn't good enough for her."

Sen Tom Delay commented, "People like her take all the good seats on the bus, leaving guys like me to walk because all the seats were already taken."

[bobbieinok]

5. for those like me who need to be reminded, DeLay actually said he

wanted to fight in Vietnam but that blacks and others had taken all the military jobs......I believe he said this at the 1988 repub national convention