Well, at least DUers and the Freaks at FreeRepublic agree on Rosa Parks

[gristy]

sort of...

Here's the first 50 posts (trimmed the poster info for easier reading) on this thread: www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508580/posts
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May God rest her soul, whatever her politics were.

Wow. Now I'm feeling old.

RIP Rosa- a true American hero.

Rest in peace, Ms. Parks.

Rosa, you were a gutsy lady. May you Rest In Peace.

regardless of what some may think of her.. I see her as a central figure in civil rights fight... she did much in her actions alone... Rest In Peace Rosa...

Her politics...you must admit, telling blacks not to sit in 'a white mans seat' was and still is wrong. God Rest her soul

She was a certainly a signifcant piece of history.

I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity.

BTTT

The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn. I was going to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, but now I think I'll go to Dearborn. Oh, Dear. (Sorry, I'm really trying hard not to laugh and not be nasty!)

ping....

A truly great woman.

sad bus ping :( may she rest in peace

I read she worked for the NAACP at the time of the arrest. She certainly was an influential person.

Sage of Chappaqua Alert! Bubba will be all over this like white on rice (so to speak). After all, he and Miss Parks rode the bus together, didn't they? And of course, Clinton wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. Meanwhile, condolences to the family of Miss Parks. IMO, the civil rights movement was a righteous cause up until about 1965. Since then, under the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and Mfume, it was degenerated badly.

God rest her soul. Parks was a great American.

It's sad that she's died, but at least now she's finally out of East Detroit.

She was a brave woman. America is a better place for her.

"Free at last" - The nation honors you!

Rosa Parks, a great hero.

There are many conservative blacks, and they are growing every day.

I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity. That's enough to earn respect in any event. I may not agre with everything she said, but I can respect her courage.

She lived in a time where racial discrimination and hatred was an everyday fact of life. She may have said things then, that you or I would have said had we been in her shoes. I cut people slack from that era. But The Rev. JJ is a racebaiter and has no such immunity.

She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?

God bless her. She was an incredibly brave woman.

God bless.

Now I'm feeling old. Actually, I think the fact that she still lived until today shows just how little time has passed and how much change se saw in her life.

What she did was right. I'll always stand by someone when they are right. RIP.

Peace be with her. I met her and other family members when I worked only a block away from Rosa Parks Blvd. which I traveled daily to my job where I met her. I've met a lot of famous people on the job but Ms. Parks was the only person I ever met that had been in the history books for decades.

I read she worked for the NAACP at the time of the arrest. Yes, and this played a part in why Rosa Parks is "The Famous Rosa Parks". Rosa wasn't the only one to protest the asinine policy of forcing blacks to sit in the back of the bus. BUT, she was a known quantity to the NAACP, was considered reliable, and had a squeaky clean background. These were the qualities the NAACP needed in someone who would have to go through an ugly legal, political, and PR gauntlet. So Rosa's case was picked over others to go through the court system. And to her benefit, she showed class both throughout the affair and after everything was said and done. This was from a different era - back when the NAACP wasn't a bunch of race-baiting numskulls....

God Bless this great woman. Our nation is better off for what she did.

Hope the folks turn out in great numbers to mourn Miss Rosa Parks... Hope those who do attend are realistic enough to shun JJ, AS, Kwasi, Fartacon and the rest of the butt heads that have stolen her legacy!!

Rosa did the right thing. A race-based caste system (or any caste system, for that matter,) was and is an abomination. Too bad modern day so-called "civil rights" activists see nothing wrong with forcing whites to the back of the line when competing against others for educational and employment opportunities. "Affirmative action" is morally wrong, because it doles out rewards and punishments based on race, instead of based on individual merit or culpability. Worse, it perpetuates the cycle of unfairness, instead of putting and end to it. The law of reciprocity cannot be repealed.

My wife works for Detroit Edison. About 6 years ago she was in customer service and took a call from Rosa Parks. I asked her if she made her wait at the end of the call queue while she took care of some white customers first. Looked at me like I was crazy.

She did the right thing when it was likely not seeming to be in her best short term interests. I have no real knowledge of her politics, but she was no Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. She chose action, while those imbeciles choose the limelight.

I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity In other words, the real deal...

She was treated like a sub-human by many white people for much of her life. I'm will to understand why she may be a little bitter and give her the benefit of the doubt. A brave and decent woman, our country is a better place for her having lived in it.

Nothing on Drudge yet....

She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire? Even into the 70's, Detroit had a lot going for it. It really started going downhill around 1975 or so.

Rest in Peace PING

RIP. She did more for civil rights than Jessie ever did.

"I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity." Someone who did something because it was right, not because there was a news crew nearby. Those who use her name (in vain, mostly) might profit by her example.

The front seat of the bus to upstairs is waiting for that fine lady.

I don't think she ever fed upon or profited from her celebrity. True, poignant observation.

Rosa was one courageous lady. May she rest in peace...

Good heavens... I honestly didn't know that she was still alive. She certainly showed that one small person can be a huge player in an entire century of human history.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Some of the posts were rude

Like Jesse Jackson didn't do anything for civil rights? :eyes: Sure, I guess they'd be the one's sitting on their asses. And someone said she was wrong for what she did?! Okay, I don't even want to know. Oh and more blacks are being conservatives? So where is their black cacus? And news flash: Bush has a 2% approval raiting with blacks, so I'm sure they're really rushing to change and be a conservative. :eyes:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

2. "There are many conservative blacks, and they are growing every day"

"Some are nineteen feet tall by now! Hugh1"

Nah, there's no agreement there. Read carefully for their veiled hate.

[Erika]

3. Nice but I remember Reagan's speech

that we didn't have a racial problem in the 50's and all the BS that went with it. They adored the guy as stupid and incorrect as his remarks were.

[devilgrrl]

4. This one slays me...

"Her politics...you must admit, telling blacks not to sit in 'a white mans seat' was and still is wrong. God Rest her soul"

:wtf:

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. I took that one as just bad writing

I don't think they meant that her politics were wrong, but that the discrimination was wrong.

[Erika]

7. These people are truly weird

What is their point?

[marbuc]

9. I loved how he/she felt the need to to begin this statement with

"you must admit," like he/she was expecting disagreement.

[tamtam]

11. I know what was that all about

They are hateful, racist, idiots over there. I can see the sarcasm dripping off some of those comments. That comment speaks volumes about their ilk and the majority of them truly feel that way. They get no props from as I know how most of them truly feel.

[bliss_eternal]

6. I may be alone in this...

but I'd rather not see their trashy thoughts on our board. I entered this thread thinking I was just going to see talk of Rosa's passing--I should have read more carefully.

She deserves better on a Democratic board, than to have the thoughts of assholes reprinted and discussed. She was better than that, so are we...

[liberaltrucker]

14. Their comments on our board is appropriate

The "know thine enemy" thing........

[bliss_eternal]

15. Oh, so there you are, liberaltrucker!

Good to see you!

I've already had my say--and you guys have every right to read it--for the reason you state.

Take care, see you around the boards! :hi:

[tallahasseedem]

8. This post speaks volumes....

"Nothing on Drudge yet...."

This is what we are up against folks.

[Der Blaue Engel]

10. Some of this demonstrates the willful ignorance of bigots

They're patting themselves on the back, telling themselves what magnanimous people they are for "respecting" Rosa Parks...and in the same breath denigrating everyone else in the fight for civil rights and claiming that discrimination is over.

They turn my stomach, even when they're trying to be nice.

[Erika]

12. Yep, Remember Katrina and New Orleans

The year before W had been handing out bottled water to rich white Suv driving Floridians a day after the hurricane.

The poor blacks were put at the back of the "bus" again. I wonder who W is going to come up with at her funeral? Condi? Colin? She'd roll over in her grave if these aunts and uncles were there. How about the white twins?

[slaveplanet]

13. Sigh- these people would also be

first to memorize John Brown as a moonbat...had he lived till these modern times

[kskiska]

16. As Trent Lott put it, if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948

we wouldn't have had all those problems for all those years. Rosa would have remained in the back of the bus.

When Strom's daughter broached the subject of segregation with her father, she said she wanted to be able to avail herself of the public pool. He told her she had a perfectly good pool at her college - why would she want to go to the public pool? She said she wanted to eat at Woolworth's lunch counter. He said, "Why, they don't even serve vegetables there. You don't need to eat there." She said she'd like to have the option of eating there. He said, "This is the South. This is the way it's always going to be. It's tradition," and pretty much told her to get those silly thoughts out of her little head.