Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:

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

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Yes.

It's true.

We were sold a lie in school about her heroism and bravery.

We were also sold a lie about so much more around the civil rights movement.

Claude! said:

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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.

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The maybe we should recognize her as an agitator and do away with the image that she was a lowly seamstress whose only claim was that her feet hurt.

OldArmy71 said:

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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.

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I see where you're coming from, but please keep in mind that the majority of the US population today did not live through the Civil Rights Movements. It was history that we learned about in school. And that narrative is (for lack of a better word) whitewashed.

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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Scopes was nothing more than show

Burdizzo said:

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Claude! said:

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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.

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The maybe we should recognize her as an agitator and do away with the image that she was a lowly seamstress whose only claim was that her feet hurt.

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I thought her claim was living in the segregated South.

She stood up for what she believed. I respect her 100%. She didn't hide behind a computer being something she isn't.

backintexas2013 said:

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She stood up for what she believed. I respect her 100%. She didn't hide behind a computer being something she isn't.

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I think the only computers back then filled an entire room or a floor.

OldArmy71 said:

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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.

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The American Dream is now making enough money to escape the consequences of the Civil RIghts movement.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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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?"

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He did. Not sure why telling the truth means you can't love black people. In fact you could certainly argue that telling black people (and others) a false history has caused far more problems. If you really want to have some fun you should look at how statistically blacks are worse off by pretty much every measure following the Civil Rights Act and the Great Society programs that followed it. Most black people have very little understanding of their own history because they have been embedded with propaganda so long. The lies only cause further racism on both sides.

I dont care for Rosa Parks or the stunt she pulled.

Kozmozag said:

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Yes and so was MLK. The media manipulation s you see everyday is the same as its always been.

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From the deep dives I did, Rosa Parks is mother Teresa compared to MLK.

MLK was way way more than an adulterer and I wouldn't associate anything with him.

In other news he wasn't a Christian either and aI dont mean that by his actions, but his preaching.

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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.

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They had the cop there that had already agreed to arresting her.

They had to have a cop there pre-arranged because she had tried to get arrested a couple times before and did not.

So, I guess our Founding Fathers were also agitators? The Boston Massacre wasn't exactly the Red Coats being ordered to fire on a bunch of peaceful American's minding their own business.

Headline:

Rosa Parks a bus.

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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.

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And the (Republican) DA was in on it.

TheEternalOptimist said:

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Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:

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

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Yes.

It's true.

We were sold a lie in school about her heroism and bravery.

We were also sold a lie about so much more around the civil rights movement.

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Her being selected to be the one do take this action is widely known. It's even prominently mentioned at the Rosa Parks museum.

Quick derail, who would you f*** / marry / kill in this group?


Helen Keller
Rosa Parks
Amelia Earhart

Also, Helen Keller lived longer than MLK? My timeframe for her was way off.

SgtBarbarossa said:

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Quick derail, who would you f*** / marry / kill in this group?


Helen Keller - F because she won't care if you're ugly
Rosa Parks - Kill because who wants to marry/F someone whose sole mission is to just sit on her ass
Amelia Earhart - Marry for the inheritance/insurance money

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When Helen Keller recovered from an illness, did she feel better or not?

IIIHorn said:

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Headline:

Rosa Parks a bus.

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When Rosa Parks died, I made a comment about how they put her casket in the back of a hearse, and it got deleted.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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backintexas2013 said:

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She stood up for what she believed. I respect her 100%. She didn't hide behind a computer being something she isn't.

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I think the only computers back then filled an entire room or a floor.

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That makes them easier to hide behind.

I for one favor not making people sit in the back of the bus because of their skin color. Maybe if I act now, I can get my Communist Party membership card in time for May Day.

HoustonAggie11 said:

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I dont care for Rosa Parks or the stunt she pulled.

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I dont care for segregation or arresting people for sitting in the white section of a bus

What are you doing to solve the self-segregation clearly visible in every city? Start busing white people to the black parts of town?

The residential real estate market is just rich people trying to self segregate from places with dangerous and ugly cultures, and the poor being unable to.

Why should the rich only enjoy the benefits of segregation and not your everyday American?

Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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The residential real estate market is just rich people trying to self segregate from places with dangerous and ugly cultures, and the poor being unable to.

Why should the rich only enjoy the benefits of segregation and not your everyday American?

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TBH, I think that city-planning-wise, the USA would have been better off keeping racial segregation legal instead of trying to fake it with economic segregation.

Self-segregation isn't exactly the same as forced segregation, is it?

96AgGrad said:

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Self-segregation isn't exactly the same as forced segregation, is it?

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It's not. Self segregation is only for the wealthy for the most part.

Thankfully, keep away from the troublemakers.

torrid said:

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I for one favor not making people sit in the back of the bus because of their skin color. Maybe if I act now, I can get my Communist Party membership card in time for May Day.

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I can understand requiring government institutions like public bus systems or public schools to desegregate. But it was a violation of the First Amendment to impose it on private-sector business.

BonfireNerd04 said:

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torrid said:

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I for one favor not making people sit in the back of the bus because of their skin color. Maybe if I act now, I can get my Communist Party membership card in time for May Day.

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I can understand requiring government institutions like public bus systems or public schools to desegregate. But it was a violation of the First Amendment to impose it on private-sector business.

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https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/515

Not according to the Supreme Court.