Originally Posted By RAM1984 Only 50 years ago and nearly 100 years after the end of the Civil War. It took us long enough. (I wonder if 1st criminal is listed among the items of her lying in honor at the Capital?)
Originally Posted By kennect Only fifty years ago...You know in some ways that sounds like ancient history but in others ways is sounds like yesterday...Time has a funny way of playing tricks on us...But being fair to all persons is something time should have never had anything to do with...
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder What I found to be a joke today were two things. One, Schumer using Rosa Parks in his little speech and two, parading Samuel Alito by her casket to pay respects. As if Alito was going to be anywhere near there if he wasn't nominated. Gimme a break.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I heard that Bill Frist diagnosed her as still alive even though he never saw or met her.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder "Jon Stewart took both of them to task for that last night" Saw it. My wife and I were watching a few different national news programs before the Daily Show came on and we were commenting on the grandstanding going on. It was like we were channeling Stewart.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I heard that Bill Frist diagnosed her as still alive even though he never saw or met her.> LOL!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Parks, a former seamstress, became the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda, sharing an honor bestowed upon Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and the nation’s highest leaders. << I didn't realize until reading this at MSNBC.com that she was the first woman in US history to recieve this honor.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 I think grandstanding is part of the job description in being a politician. As for what Ms. Parks did, speaking from personal experience, I found the back of the bus to be a lot more fun than the front. My friends and I would always ride in the back in high school. But hey that's just me.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Jafar30, I consider you a good guy and fun to post with...but that just wasn't funny. ;<
Originally Posted By jdub >>I don't think it was malicious.<< Neither do I, not at all. And Lisann22 did a better job couching her protest than I did--but that always goes without saying.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 This Jafar30(logged in with the wrong name). And no it wasn't meant to be malicious. I'm glad that Ms. Parks chose not to get up and move to the back. She's definitely one of the true pioneers of the civil rights movement. And it would be wise if everyone, Black, White, Hispanic, Arab followed here example. All I was saying was that I, I always liked the back of the bus better. When I'd ride the bus in Disney World I'd always try to go towards the back. I didn't mean that Ms. Parks should have gotten up from her seat.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I knew what you were saying, Jafar/DDman. I always dug the back too as a kid - on wide turns it felt kinda cool. The point, of course, is that I CHOSE to ride there, and was not forced to because of some policy designed to denigrate people due to what Bishop Tutu called a "biological irrelevance."
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I apologize IF I misunderstood, too much WE causes a person to read too much into everything and possibly lose their sense of humor.
