1 a very brave woman....too bad that so many blacks have pissed away so much earned by black men and women like Rosa and King

2 Accepted now but at 58 years of age I can still remember how controvesial it was at the time. Does anyone else remember what the adjectives were that were used to describe her and her supporters ? Should we be afraid of the people and groups that are now categorized the same way ? We conservatives should try to remember where we were at that time.

3 RIP Rosa.

4 Oh boo-hoo, she was just another goddamn communist agitator, which is a well documented fact. One more dead communist is never a bad thing.

5 Impy is a sick fuck if he thinks Rosa was a 'communist agitator'. She did us all a world of good.

6 Growing up in Bed Sty Brooklyn in the 50s/60's never saw anything like that (back of the bus). Knew cops didn't like the blacks - but then again - they didn't like anybody - and were quick to smack ya. Not until the Army and left home did I actually see stuff like this. Hell, I didn't like blacks, or Ricans or etc., but this petty stupid kind of discrimination made no sense to me.

7 Hondo, you and everyone else should learn about what led to segregation and the Jim Crow laws. During Reconstruction, most Southern states were politically restricted from electing native whites, so that only blacks or carpetbaggers could hold office. As a result, most state and US electees were ex-slaves and thieving northerners bent on plunder. After Reconstruction ended, it was just time for Southerners to reclaim their own rights back from the blacks and carpetbaggers, and the resentment and hatred that had been fostered during Reconstruction was so great that the pendulum swung too far back the other way. The fact is that Jim Crow and segregation were simply natural reactions to egregious policies of Reconstruction which left most Southerners poor and destitute whether they had been Confederates or not. We reap what we sow, and for too long people have been sowing hatred in this country, and reaping a bountiful crop, but the plowing and planting aren't over yet, and the next harvest is yet to come. Okay, enough prose, back to Komrade Parks; Rosa Parks was indoctrinated at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a school which was started by known Communist Myles Horton for the purpose of spreading socialist/communist propaganda and training agitators and propagandists, like Parks and Kind. See this link: http://www.martinlutherking.org/articles/rosaparks.html and this: http://www.martinlutherking.org/images/commie-school.jpg . She was nothing but a communist operative and thus all her noble acts were nothing more than staged events meant to garner publicity. And greg, you're such a pathetic little waste of elements, why don't you run along and surf for boy porn like you're so fond of? We still remember your post after your trip to Italy, about all the young boys you had, so run along, you filthy child molester.

8 maxie A lesson I want nothing to do with. I use the skeletons in my closet for Holloween - not some bizarre historical rationalization.

9 I never speak ill of the dead, bad carma. Or at least the recently dead.

10 Sorry hondo, it's just historical fact, and PC ain't got shit to do with it. Whatever though, she's a good communist now.

11 IM your post seems to suggest that segregation of the races and Jim Crow laws started only after the civil war. Is that the way that you see it ? Interesting......As for being left poor and desolate after the war: the main wealth of the south was predicated on slave labor.

12 Quothe John: "IM your post seems to suggest that segregation of the races and Jim Crow laws started only after the civil war." Well, the Jim Crow laws, referring specifically to the anti-black legislation in the post-Reconstruction era, were enacted after the war. Things really weren't that different in the antebellum and postbellum periods, except that slavery had been officially outlawed. Free blacks in the antebellum could own property and get an education, it was only slaves that were forbidden from these things. There were even free blacks who themselves owned slaves. Not so simple as you once thought, is it? "As for being left poor and desolate after the war: the main wealth of the south was predicated on slave labor." Not true. Most Southerners did not own slaves, and made their livings the same as anyone in the North, i.e., in agriculture and local industry, such as logging, building, manufacturing, etc. Your simplistic Disney-esque view of the Old South is dead wrong. The fact is that the average Southerner was no less likely to be educated to the high school level than the average Northerner, because of Methodist schools in every almost community. A review of diaries and letters from the war would show that Southerners were as literate as anyone else. Also, the number of colleges in the South per capita was higher than in the North, and many of the most illustrious graduates from West Point were Southerners. Slavery was almost exclusively an agricultural institution, because of its labor intensive nature and lack of need for an education. Most Southerners were too educated to do agricultural work and were more likely to be found ni jobs requiring skill and training. Remember at this time in history that about 95% of the labor force of the entire country was employed in agriculture in some form, and the South was not as heavily populated as the North due to the fact that most immigration was into the northern port cities at the time, and especially so in the early days of the nation, when the colonies were struggling to survive. Slavery wasn't as prevalent in the North because the agricultural prospects weren't as good, but Northerners did own slaves too, and before the war, any escaped slaves would be repatriated to their owners North or South. Not as simple as Disney made it out to be, is it?

13 Improbulus Maximus:"And greg, you're such a pathetic little waste of elements, why don't you run along and surf for boy porn like you're so fond of?" You mean the posts that you made pretending to be me? You're a sick fuck to even think about stuff like that.

14 Heh, that's not going to work greg, we all know you're a NAMBLA life member.

15 I hate niggers and if you don't like it, come visit me in Memphis. I'm the gimp in the wheelchair.

16 I,ll bet she could teach race baiters like JESSIE JACKASSON and AL SHARPTON a thing or two

17 Checking out this thread is like looking at someone else's fresh vomit floating in the toilet bowl. If only God would flush . . .

18 Let's stop the name calling and let's take a look at the facts about Rosa Parks. http://www.highlandercenter.org/a-history2.asp "Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, & Ralph Abernathy in front of the Highlander Library, Monteagle, TN." http://www.africanamericans.com/RosaParks.htm "Parks received a scholarship to attend a workshop on school integration for community leaders. It was held at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, and Parks spent several weeks there." So can we agree that Rosa Parks attended Highlander Folk School? Next question, what type of school was Highlander Folk School? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/fbi_hfs_01.html "The Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, has earned its bad reputation over a long period of years as a result of its left wing programs, the Communist-front taint of its leadership and the disgraceful conduct of school leaders when called upon by congressional committees to answer justified questions about its operations." And if you have a bad case of insomnia you can read more about the Highlander Folk School at. http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/hfschool.htm I don't think there is any doubt about the type of school Highlander is. Does anyone have information to the contrary? I don't think so. Now if Rosa Parks had been an ordinary working class person who just had a bad day, was tired and didn't feel like getting up when told to, then she wouldn't be a "communist agitator" as Improbulus Maximus claims she was. She would be what is known as a "useful fool," just ordinary naive person that the communist find useful for the moment and then discard when they are through with them. But looking at her biography at http://www.africanamericans.com/RosaParks.htm we learn that 1) She was educated "In 1924 she enrolled at the private Montgomery Industrial School for Girls...." "As a teenager she attended Booker T. Washington Junior High School in Montgomery, and participated in a high school program at State Teachers College (now Alabama State University)." "In December 1932 she married Raymond Parks, a 29-year-old barber. Rosa Parks received her high school diploma the following year...." Remember this was a time in America when having a high school diploma was like being a college graduate is today. 2) She was far from being politically naive. "Parks' husband had long been active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)" "Parks became increasingly committed to racial justice as she and her husband joined the campaign to save the 'Scottsboro boys'...." "In 1943, when Rosa Parks actually joined the NAACP, her involvement with the organization became even greater. She worked with the organization's state president, Edgar Daniel Nixon, to mobilize a voter registration drive in Montgomery. That same year, Parks was elected secretary of the Montgomery branch." So it seems she was quite an activist prior to her bus ride. I would also to point out that she continued her activism up until her health began to fail her in 2000. So was she a communist agitator, a useful fool or a saint?

19 rosa parks sucks

20 I followed the link in Drifter's message above . . it leads to image of an editorial in a Chattanooga newspaper, circa 1958. We're supposed to believe that anyone associated with Highlander is a "communist"? Note that Eleanor Roosevelt addressed the school. Now that convinced the newspaper that Highlander was a fountain of evil, but it doesn't count as evidence for anyone who has a brain.

21 Guys, Just because people said that higlander was communist, doesn't make it communist. Even if it was communist, that doesn't make Rosa communist. Besides, what is so bad about being a communist anyway? Racism is for the stupid and nieve.

22 Some people strive so hard to find black heroes, that they're willing to accept the new and improved PC variety of history . . . historical revisionism. And it doesn't appear polite to denigrate the dead...or so it would seem. But, I think an accurate history would illuminate Mz. Parks' connection with the communists. There truly are black heroes and heroines, moreover Alan Keyes and Condi Rice ... but, they are unfortunately tagged as oreos, and that's a foul. I, for one, no longer believe that McCarthyism was such a bad thing...history has proved him more right than wrong in the senate hearings, and subsequent analysis of those who were "named". After the era of glasnost had opened Soviet archives, it further ratified their (Russian) incursions deep into our society. The history of early black activism is replete with communist functionaries, useful fools as they were. From Malcolm X to other socialist ideologues, "by any means necessary" has been their mantra. Sure it bothered many in America to find out that their "heroes and icons" were radicals/leftists, because it revealed just how much influence occurred deep into the unions, the arts, and amidst Hollyweird. And there isn't much tolerance for true intellectual discourse in Hollywood ...not certain there ever was any. You can't stomach the Hollywood dog food unless you're one of their dogs. It will take time, but as Bobby Dylan said awhile back, "The times, they are a changin". It needs to change faster, a Republican intellectual revivalism amongst the masses. With financial emancipation, many blacks are beginning to realize how they've been duped and used by the Demokratz. ... but too many inner-city poor blacks still think the DNC is their Great Black Hope. If they only realized what "useful fools" they have been, perhaps they'll embrace the party which sponsored their emancipation.

23 I am doing a debate against Rosa Parks and its hard to find anything bad about her. She was a great women. I havent found anything yet.