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Oct. 29, 2005 There isn’t much more to be said, the name says it all. Rosa Parks changed America more than anyone person has since George Washington. Rosa Parks challenged the nation to take action to right wrongs that’d been allowed to go on far too long. This mild mannered Seamstress from Alabama made America come to its senses. She re-lit the flame of freedom from slavery the assassination of President Lincoln allowed to go out. She gave a young Minister, Martin Luther King the platform he was seeking to tell America and the World of the evils of segregation. Rosa Parks spent her life teaching the lesions of freedom vs. segregation. She made an impact without making it unpalatable to those she set out to convert. As wrong as segregation was both Blacks and Whites were it’s victims. Rosa Parks didn’t decide one day not to give up her seat to a Whiteman. It was an orchestrated well-planned event, it was the shot that began the war against segregation. Dr. King knew militant behavior would evoke violence. If the war on segregation were to be successful, it must be a peaceful war. If there were to be violence, he wanted it to be against his civil rights movement not by the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks worked diligently most of her 92 years, first to secure freedoms not guaranteed her in the original constitution. Secondly, to make sure the new guarantees would be honored. She was employed and supported by Democratic Congressman John Conyers her friend for many years. This allowed her to carry on the work she began many years prior to the incident on the bus. Rosa Parks was always an activist. The United States congress has approved she is allowed to lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capital in Washington D. C. A befitting tribute to a lady who gave us so much. It’s been fifty years since that incident on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. Many of those years were turbulent, change never comes overnight. Rosa Parks can take with her to her grave the contribution she made to the American way of life, perhaps not perfect but far better than the world she was born in. In fifty years we’ve come from laws prohibiting part of our society from enjoying the privileges of their citizenship to a black woman being touted as a presidential candidate, not by her own black people, by white elitists who only fifty years ago made the practice of segregation possible. Is America great or what? For our Black friends who still rant on the evils of White dominance in our society, please allow us, [Whites] the privilege and the honor of paying tribute to a great lady. She made this a better nation, we’re all thankful for it. God, please take care of Rosa Parks, she deserves your very best. ------------ About the author: Ken Hughes joined the Republican Party at the age of three. He hid the fact from his Liberal Democratic family for the next eighteen years. When his political leanings were discovered he was immediately sent packing. Mr. Hughes life began on a ranch in Idaho 75 years ago. He’s traveled extensively to many countries of the world and five continents. He has a keen interest in people and politics. Mr. Hughes believes in the individual’s right to hold his or her own beliefs, his sole purpose for writing is to make people think, what they think is up to them. His one original quote is, "Truth is like a coin, you must see both sides to know it’s not counterfeit." Email: ken-hughes@comcast.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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