I have never heard of this narrative. Is it true?

Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:

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I have never heard of this narrative. Is it true?

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Yep. I heard this long ago.

This still slaps

A video with no context? Have no idea and don't care. Not allowed here.

Ellis Wyatt said:

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A video with no context? Have no idea and don't care. Not allowed here.

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You're being pedantic. The subject line of the OP poses the specific question and further asks if there is truth to the videos implied thesis.

Quality independent commentary should not be based on a book report by the OP, but everyone's own review.

Plenty of cases which eventually because major Supreme Court decisions were basically setups by leftwing activists. Just off the top of my head, and not counting anything already mentioned.

Roe v. Wade
Lawrence v. Texas
Brown v. Board of Education
Loving v. Virginia
Griswold v. Connecticut
Several cases involving prayers in schools, later going so far as to ban students from praying or reading the Bible.

Now, I'm not going to debate the merits of each one; that's another discussion.

The right finally learned to play the game with the most prominent case being Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

The new Houston Metro buses have a seat dedicated to her. Very first seat as you step onto the bus (would be like 1A on a plane). It's yellow leather with stitching that says "In memory of Rosa Parks." All the other seats are the standard blue cloth.

I almost puked the first time I saw it. Then I got pissed when I realized my tax dollars are paying for this crap.

Soon people might find out that some of those arrested for sit-ins at restaurants didn't go there just to eat.

I'm not sure what the point is, other than adding some historical context.

Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:

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I have never heard of this narrative. Is it true?

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Did he really close the video with 'I love black people?"

Rapier108 said:

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Plenty of cases which eventually because major Supreme Court decisions were basically setups by leftwing activists. Just off the top of my head, and not counting anything already mentioned.

Roe v. Wade
Lawrence v. Texas
Brown v. Board of Education
Loving v. Virginia
Griswold v. Connecticut
Several cases involving prayers in schools, later going so far as to ban students from praying or reading the Bible.

Now, I'm not going to debate the merits of each one; that's another discussion.

The right finally learned to play the game with the most prominent case being Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

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Yeah, social leftists loved the Supreme Court until the Republicans finally put an end to its judicial activism. Where would abortion or the LGBTQ agenda be without it?

Lawrence v. Texas was an interesting setup. An angry neighbor called 911 to report a shooting. The Harris County sheriff's deputies arrived, and didn't see a gunman, but did find two men having buttsex. So the deputies figured that they might as well arrest them for that. It was just a misdemeanor, but Lambda Legal decided to make it into a federal case.

It's not just a left wing thing. The plaintiffs in what became the Heller case were carefully vetted, for example. When your goal is to use the judiciary to make a landmark ruling, you want sympathetic, reliable plaintiffs who are difficult to demonize or rattle.

Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:

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I have never heard of this narrative. Is it true?

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Yes. Trained at the Highlander Folk School for such activities.

Scripted actions that were not of her own invention. She was just the tool used to make it happen

Yes, this isn't new information. Been bull**** always.

I'm not saying change wasn't necessary. But have real ****ing heroes. Not lies.

Booker T Washington for example

The NAACP recruited Parks and set the whole thing up. It was originally supposed to be a different woman named Claudette Colvin.

Colonel Kurtz said:

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The NAACP recruited Parks and set the whole thing up. It was originally supposed to be a different woman named Claudette Colvin.

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She was already on an officer in the local NAACP chapter. I don't think there was a lot of recruitment required.

Now do MLK

And then do Watergate

CrackerJackAg said:

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Yes, this isn't new information. Been bull**** always.

I'm not saying change wasn't necessary. But have real ****ing heroes. Not lies.

Booker T Washington for example

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She still took a risk getting arrested and becoming the face of the movement.

Sq 17 said:

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She still took a risk getting arrested and becoming the face of the movement.

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basically a Pepsi ad

There is actually a movie on the real Rosa Parks story.

OldArmy71 said:

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I don't understand the issue here.

I grew up in Louisiana in the 1950s.

I went to segregated schools. I remember sitting on the steps of my elementary school and watching black kids in a bus being transported to the black school across town.

I enjoyed the only public swimming pool in town, which was off-limits to blacks.

The pool was in the town park. The restrooms and drinking fountains were labelled WHITES and COLORED.

I went to the only movie in town nearly every Saturday. As I paid for my ticket, I noticed black kids my age paying for their tickets at a different window and climbing the stairs to the balcony.

Rosa Parks was chosen to receive the focus, but that doesn't change the reality that she was living the authentic life of a black woman in the Jim Crow south.



It was very heroic of her.

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Multiple things can be true at the same time. The Selma bus policy and the culture enabling it was wrong. It can also be true that Rosa Parks was closer to an agitator than some innocent victim of circumstance.

My bad. I thought it was a rule here.

You're describing her as an "agitator."

That's a word with negative connotations.

I remember, because I was there, our politicians describing the "outside agitators" coming into our peaceful Southern towns and disturbing our contented black folk.

Segregation was an immoral evil that blighted the lives of millions of people.

People who worked peacefully to end that evil should not be described by words with negative connotations.

Social change usually involves some level of agitation. Most things don't change with simple, quiet acts. What's the incentive to change if there isn't pressure?

The world needs agitators sometimes. Sometimes they can do so peacefully and effect meaningful change, like Rosa Parks. Other times the agitation has to be a bit more muscular, like the Revolution.

When I learned the true story, I wa much more impressed than I was with the false narrative of "she was tired and didn't feel like giving up her seat".

Whether she was a commie or not, the law was wrong.

The local NAACP wanted a test case to fight the law in court. A few months earlier, a young black girl had been arrested for the same "crime" of refusing to give up her seat. But she was loud and combative, and had a child out of wedlock.

Not going to be a sympathetic figure in 1955.

Parks worked for the NAACP, she was married, middle aged, had a job, was small and non-threatening, and had zero criminal record. So the focus would be on the law, not on whether she was "uppity" as she could have been labeled at the time. She quietly allowed herself to be arrested, on purpose, to test the law in court.

Exactly as planned.

I see nothing wrong with the initial incident. Well done, mission accomplished.

I see a lot wrong with the deification and gas lighting around the incident and the fables told about it.

I'm also disappointed that the NAACP let her retire in poverty and obscurity and a victim of later crimes.

I think I read that the founder of Godfather's Pizza took care of her in her old age, once he discovered her situation.